Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By P. Krishnaswamy
Ravaged by the three-decade-long battle against terrorism, impoverished further by political indifference on their economic welfare after the end of terrorism and having remained inhibited under the pandemic threat, the people of the North and the East now look up to the Government for programs on their social and economic welfare.
They need development programs...
Daily wage tussle
While the tussle between trade unions and the Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) over the Rs.1,000 wage increase to the plantation workers is perpetuating, one major union - the Up-Country People’s Front (UPF) – said it welcomes the ‘profit-share system’ proposed by the plantation companies. It should be the initial mechanism for the plantation estates transforming ...
Hindus in Sri Lanka celebrate ‘Thai Pongal Day’ - culturally and traditionally the festival of harvests, on January 15. Some celebrate Thai Pongal for two or three days, depending on whether they are farmers, business people or those engaged in other trades.
The Hindus of the North and East celebrate the festival with much hope of materialising their dreams and...
While millions of people in the coastal regions of the Indian Ocean countries mourned their dead last Wednesday, the 14th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, V.Sivalingam of Pandiruppu, Kalmunai in the Eastern province and his family also joined them but with the looming uncertainty on whether or not his son Krishanth alias Seenu lost in the tsunami waves on...
Amid the general contention over the hybrid electoral system introduced for the February 10 local government polls and criticism surfacing on a daily basis from political parties and political observers over its many shortcomings, the Sunday Observer spoke to leaders of three political parties of the minorities for their views.
State Minister of Education V. Radhakrishnan...
By P. Krishnaswamy
The National Unity Government has laid special focus on developing the war-ravaged Northern and Eastern Provinces and increased...
LTTE renegade leader and Minister in the former UPFA government Vinayagamurthy Muralithran alias Karuna Amman announced yesterday...
Minister of Rehabilitation, Resettlement, Hindu Religious Affairs and Prisons Reforms, D.M.Swaminathan, in an interview with the...
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) told the Sunday Observer that it had its reservations over President Maithripala Sirisena’s...
Minister of Rehabilitation, Resettlement, Hindu Religious Affairs and Prisons Reforms, D.M. Swaminathan says that ongoing...
The country and all political contenders will know what precisely the new Constitution is, when the reports of the Steering...