(Media release by National Peace Council)
The government has declared its intention of prioritizing constitutional reform in the New Year. Parliament is to be converted...
( The Garbage mountain in a highly residential area in Meethotamulla)
Colombo Additional Magistrate Augusta Atapattu today criticised the Wellampitiya Police and remanded the Kolonnawa...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) recently arrested another Army Officer attached to the State Intelligence Service in connection with the abduction and murder of...
Rape case judgement & reflections on solidarity actions and struggles for justice in Sri Lanka,
By Ruki Fernando.
On 28th December 2015, the Nuwara Eliya High...
by Easwaran Rutnam.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has urged the government to review all cases of detainees held under the...
The Diplomat/By Taylor Dibbert.
Several weeks ago, Chandrika Kumaratunga announced that Sri Lanka would set up a special court to deal with alleged wartime abuses....
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with approval of the Cabinet, has appointed a 24-member committee comprising representatives from political and civil society to obtain views...
Recent statistics issued by the Jaffna District Secretariat shows that there is a shortage of specialists and doctors in hospitals in the entire Jaffna...
By B. Nimal Veerasingham.
Growing up barley a few hundred yards away from the meandering and mesmerizing Batticaloa lagoon had its magical moments. The swilling...
By S. Rubatheesan.
Meant to be a temporary stop, Keppapilavu feels like the end of the line.
Three years after Thiruchelvan Ketheeswaran arrived in Keppapilavu village...
The Government will next month start gathering public opinion through a dedicated website on issues related to reconciliation and “mechanisms” to be set up...
By Gagani Weerakoon.
A Cabinet Paper forwarded by Minister of Finance, Ravi Karunanayake, seeking Cabinet approval to compensate an individual, paying Rs 300 million from...
A senior officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told Ceylon Today that a group of high ranking officials of the Police Department as...
Al Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers and State Ministers will be strictly warned by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe not to violate...
( a campaign against investigate military killings, led by Namal Rajapaksa)
‘Lawyers Collective’ views with deep concern the attempt being made to intimidate, by public...
Main Opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader R. Sampanthan had been appointed as the Co-Chairman of the Trincomalee District Coordination Committee (DCC), TNA MP...
ISLANDED
By Sujit Sivasundaram
(A review by Radhika Coomaraswamy)
17th December 2015
Let me say that ISLANDED by Sujit Sivasunderam is a seminal work. It is an original...
Abduction and alleged assault of a youth by Member of Parliament Hurinika Premachandra’s body guards, using one of her security vehicles and MP's justification...
Sri Lankan’s death sentence for adultery reduced to three years in jail on appeal.
Saudi authorities have reduced a Sri Lankan woman’s sentence for adultery...
Four more Army intelligence personnel, including a female, are to be summoned to the CID for questioning in connection with the enforced disappearance of...
Image: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, center, sings the national anthem during an event to mark the anniversary of country's independence from British colonial...
