TNA leader R.Sampanthan'The I.T.A.K. states that the Government is engaged in implementing a programme, the objective of which is to further alter the...
NPCThe Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) today called on the Government to dissolve the Northern Provincial Council (NPC).The Government affiliated political party said that the...
WORK TOWARDS MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE RESOLUTION TO AVOID FURTHER POLARISATIONThe Sri Lankan government and the Tamil polity in Sri Lanka, together with sections of the...
Ruwan Laknath JayakodyPresident of the Sihala Ravaya, Ven. Akmeemana Dayarathana Thera, including all the monks of the Sihala Ravaya, have been temporarily banned from...
File photoWorld Watch MonitorMore than 2,000 Christians gathered in Colombo on Sunday to protest against a perceived lack of religious freedom in Sri Lanka,...
hopes dashed Northern Chief Minister claims councillors losing faith in Govt. will to assist with NPC work Says emotions are being vented through resolutions at...
Graphic by Groundviews (AFP)Colombo — Sri Lanka's Buddhist hierarchy and other religious leaders accused police Tuesday of failing to prosecute those behind a recent...
Associated Press /BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Thousands of protesters from opposition parties, human rights groups, trade unions and media groups marched Tuesday in Sri Lanka's capital...
(Xinhua) -- An independent presidential commission appointed to investigate people who disappeared during Sri Lanka's three-decade conflict have received over 13,000 complaints, it said...
Mass grave informer war zoneReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - An international inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka would bring "chaos," and the government's national reconciliation...
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Though I cannot say the same of his companions on the voyage, my friend Lalith Weeratunga embodies a rare combination of intelligence,...
Meera Srinivasan Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council passed a resolution on Monday calling for an international probe into the alleged war crimes...
Authoritarianism or Democratic Governance? by Friday Forum There has been, in recent times, public discussion in regard to whether our country is moving towards...
Government has granted a generous 25-year corporate tax holiday to Colombo Port City, the Rs 172.4 billion (US$ 1.3 billion) project to reclaim more...
Justice Sriskandarajah Kishali Pinto Jayawardene In the wake of the untimely demise of Justice S. Sriskandarajah, President of Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal...
Live telecast of Parliamentary proceedings taken off the air to save Govt. skinsA step in the right direction that Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa took last...
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has not taken any special decision regarding Minister of Public Relations and Public Affairs, Mervyn Silva, even though...
Europeans clamouring for Human Rights in Sri Lanka are akin to wolves sympathising with goats getting wet in the rain, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said....
43 human skeletons have been recovered till Wednesday at Thirukkeatheesvaram mass grave in Mannaar, news sources in Mannaar said. The boundaries of the mass...
A remote island has been chosen by Sri Lanka's government for the burial of Covid-19 victims from the minority Muslim and Christian communities.
The government...