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Increasing female labour force participation has been a challenge for the country. These
challenges are even greater for night-work and shift-work (hence...
In a letter to President Rajapaksa, the chairperson of the Committee for Protectin Prisoners Rights, (CPRP) Attorney at Law Sanaka Perera has requested to...
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Sri Lanka’s covid-19 ‘dark riders’ and the urgent need to correct ourselves.
The fearsome sight of armed motorcycle riders, clad in black, complete with...
Image: Gotabaya Rajapaksa with his brothers, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chamal Rajapaksa (R) in Sri Lanka on October 7, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte/Files (The Wire)
The...
New 15th Drone Regiment of the Sri Lanka Artillery Inaugurated to Meet with Future Challenges.
(sri Lanka Army/12th November 2020) Being geared to preparing the...
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In 2019, with no global pandemic, the Sirisena-Rajapaksa administration set aside Rs. 188 billion for health. In 2020, amidst a global...
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In a letter address to PM Rajapaksa United Nations resident coordinator Hana Singer says that "Considering the evidenced-based guidance of the...
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By Vyshnavy Velrajh.
(Colombo Gazette) Drones will be deployed to monitor movements in areas under lockdown in the country due to...
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BY PATRICK COCKBURN.
President Trump may be losing the election, but he is not the aberration in the history of America...
55-year-old S.Vijendran a village officer to the Iluppaikadavai area in Mannar, was killed in a mysterious attack by a group of unidentified persons on...
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By ISABEL DEBRE.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates announced on...
Image: File photo of Covid burials in Indonesia. (www.usnews.com)
OIC-IPHRC expressed deep concerns over reports of forced cremation of bodies of Muslims who died due...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) is concerned at reports of the continued detention of prominent human rights lawyer, Hejaaz...
An inmate was killed at the Moneragala Prison on 3rd November after assaulted by jail guards, news media reports.
According to Ceylon Today report Tensions...
By Shihar Aneez
COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When women at a Sri Lankan garment factory started to develop coughs and fevers, few took it seriously...
In a letter to Pavithra Wanniarachch, Minister of Health and Lieutenant General Shavendra de Silva,Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID...
As the world commemorates 2nd November as the ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ a Sri Lankan government minister has told...
The government has taken steps to draft a new constitution for Sri Lanka, which is likely to replace the existing constitution in toto, including its...
Media Release to commemorate the 'International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists' observed on November 02
While it is the responsibility of any...
A media organisation in Sri Lanka has shared a claim that UNESCO denied any damage to the country's Sinharaja forest, following reports of deforestation. But...
Five Tamils, including one former LTTE cadre, were arrested by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) on Saturday morning.
Four people in Jaffna were arrested...
Image: Political Victimization was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 08th December afternoon.
Issuing a statement BASl says that it will firmly resist any...
