Traditional seine-net beaches (Karaivalai-paadu) of Eezham Tamils in the coastal tracts of Mullaiththeevu district are grabbed and distributed among Sinhala fishermen from the south...
By Rathindra KuruwitaThe government has allocated close to 1000 acres of land to several young United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MPs to carry out...
By Sandun A. JayasekeraThe Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said yesterday it had told the government that considering the present security situation in the North...
2010 Human Rights Report: Sri LankaBureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor2010 Country Reports on Human Rights PracticesApril 8, 2011Sri Lanka is a constitutional,...
By Sandun A. JayasekeraMinister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dulles Alahapperuma said it was regrettable and a matter of shame that the development...
Tamil National Alliance MP for Batticaloa, Pakiaselvam Ariyanethiran, Tuesday night told media that Sri Lankan forces were staging search operations in the three districts...
Devolution promised for N&E, disenfranchising South – Tissa Attanayakeby Zacki JabbarThe UNP is to institute legal action against a government move to convert five...
Reaffirming India’s support for the Sri Lankan Tamils, Congress president and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said New Delhi would continue to press...
The people from Jaffna face interference by the troops in their family affairs, as such the fear-psychosis which usually prevails among the Jaffna residents...
Urgent Amnesty International Action/ Student fears for safety after deaths threatsA Sri Lankan student who complained that his law school's final exams were being...
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has instructed residents of Vellaveli in Batticaloa district to register with the village level officers (Grama Niladhari-GN), civil society sources...
The London based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has expressed concern over the lack of proper investigation into the abduction of a whistle blower.DM...
By Sandun A. JayasekeraChanges in legislations are on the cards whereby the Elections Commission would be vested with the authority to fix dates for...
Police in Sri Lanka say that they have arrested four people suspected on an attack following a the protest threat by a cabinet minister.Superintendent...
By Shamindra FerdinandoIn the run-up to the imminent release of a controversial UN report on alleged ‘war crimes’ committed during Eelam War IV, particularly...
According to the Police Department there had been over 50 disappearances in Jaffna District during March 2022. 12 bodies who were disappared had been...
By Tisaranee Gunasekara“….doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.”— Kurt Vonnegut...
While the Tamil Youth Organisation in UK was engaged in an awareness campaign for boycotting genocidal Sri Lanka in international sports, a cricket-related euphoria...
Thousands of occupying troops of Sri Lanka Army rounded up the village Uduththu’rai in Vadamaraadchi East and are engaged in search operation since Thursday...
These days there is considerable discussion about investigations into some NGOs in Sri Lanka. The president himself is talking in public about this issue...
India has instructed Sri Lanka’s main Tamil political party, The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to go beyond the 13th Amendment when they hold discussions...
Amendments give Gotabaya Rajapaksa powers to sack ministers and limit oversight.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivers a policy speech in the Colombo parliament on 20 August...
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Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving....
