The 2016 Budget has been welcomed by the business and economic establishment. The big question is whether economic policies good for business are necessarily...
PHRE press release.
War Crime Investigations, a necessary step towards reconciliation People for Human Rights and Equality (PHRE) supports the Sri Lankan government’s effort to...
( Group of solders standing in front of a body of a killed suspect 1989, Madirigiriya, Polonnaruwa)
In its editorial on 27th November Government owned...
( President Maithripala Sirisena and Justice C.G. Weeramantry lighting the traditional oil lamp at the felicitation ceremony)
President Maithripala Sirisena has said that with judges...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday took a non-committal stand on the issue of foreign judges sitting on war crimes tribunals expected...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and UNHRC Commissioner Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein are scheduled to visit the country in February next year reports...
( President Sirisena at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta)
The Prime Minister held talks with President Sirisena of Sri Lanka at the...
( Several Tamil youths gathered in Maanippaay today to commemorate Maaveerar Naal - Tamil Guardian photo)
COLOMBO: Great Heroes' Day (Maaveerar Naal), which commemorates dead ...
It is doubtful whether the government has got its priorities right in respect of reconciliation, given the emphasis it has placed on matters pertaining...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's presidential commission investigating serious abuse of power and financial fraud Thursday cleared the way for prosecutions of former defence chief...
Nov 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka's National Police Commission (NPC) has recommended disciplinary action against the police officers who were involved in the assault on...
( Students at the University of Jaffna demonstrate following the suicide of a Tamil school student, over the ongoing Tamil political prisoners crisis. Protesters...
By Shihar Aneez.
COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States has praised Sri Lanka's new government for speeding up efforts towards reconciliation with ethnic...
Lakdev Liyanagama.
Last week’s announcement by President Maithripala Sirisena that he would commence the process of abolishing the Executive Presidency, though not wholly unexpected given...
President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed directors for three Presidential Projects in the Uva, North-Western and Central Provinces while another Special Presidential Project Officer has...
(Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at a Town Hall with Sri Lankan Youth.)
AMBASSADOR POWER: Thank you so...
Concern grows as to what kind of RTI Bill Sri Lanka will enact :
by Rukshana Rizwie.
Nalaka Gunawardene
Pic: Courtesy lightmillenium.org
The actual worth of Sri Lanka's...
By Hasini Weerasinghe.
The demand for sex workers is overlooked; laws would protect sex workers from violence and harassment
Despite the reluctance to openly discuss this...
( Ambassador Samantha Power with TNA leader R. Sampanthan)
Ambassador Samantha Power told Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena that the US looks...
A protest march and agitation organized by ‘Voice Against Corruption’ demanding the government to stop its vice deals and take immediate legal action against...
(GTF is among the de-listed organisations)
Pro - Rajaapaksa political alliance of smaller parties and section of the SLFP has expressed its total and vehement...
Colombo Additional Magistrate Mrs. Rajindra Jayasuriya has reprimanded the youth who encouraged fellow citizens to honk vehicle horns in protest of stopping vehicles in...
Proponents of militarisation claim the Sri Lanka military is more efficient, competent & uses public resources more prudently than SL public service. Findings of...
