With Gotabaya Rajapaska claiming victory in the presidential elections, how does one understand the Northern vote?
The Northern electoral districts of Jaffna and Vanni...
Images of the Hindu Deity Krishna mistaken for Buddha images.
By Arjuna Ranawana.
Women’s activists are angry and exasperated by police detaining women wearing sarees or...
CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekera. Picture by Gayan Pushpika, DN.
Senior Superintendent of Police Shani Abeysekera, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department told the Parliament...
Image: Tamils being attacked in 1958 ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since then ethnic violence has been permanent feature in post independent Sri Lanka.
The...
The police are doing little to prevent mob attacks.
(Jun 6th 2019| COLOMBO/Economists.) The charges sound silly but the consequences are not. One Muslim lady’s crime...
Image: In Bandara Koswatte, the mob attacked the main mosque despite Police and Army presence, says HRCSL.
In a letter to Acting Inspector General of Police,...
Image: After Easter Sunday attacks, Negambo church. (c) Reuters.
The carnage on Easter Sunday against three Christian churches, three leading hotels and two other locations...
(Tamil Guardian) The judge at Westminster Magistrates Court today concluded the Sri Lankan Brigadier, accused of making a death threat to Tamil protesters in...
Image: A civil society initiative, Rise Up has mobilized citizens against the #CoupLK.
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena was hailed as Sri Lanka’s Mandela by...
The proto-fascist rouge-regime is floundering trying to consolidate itself.
Kumar David.
Much ink has flowed discussing recent events and much moral judgement offered; another such piece...
Image: Journalists orgnisations hold a vigil for journalists killed in Sri Lanka ( File Photo)
Criminal Investigations Department OIC – Gang Robberies Nishantha Silva has...
Image: Protester holding a placard against the dissolution of the parliament by Sirisena.
Sri Lanka was for long a bastion of Western culture in social...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya said 122 lawmakers in the 225-seat assembly had signed a letter saying they opposed the appointment...
As the core of Sri Lanka’s Democratic Socialist Republic implodes in multiple critical ways today, it cannot be said that we were not forewarned.
For...
(26 Sep 2018)President Maithripala Sirisena called upon the international community to look at Sri Lanka with a fresh perspective and consider the tremendous progress...
18 September 2018.
“This time President Sirisena’s sword is nearing his own neck; not mere smoke flooding his eyes.”
Penchant for playing with fire
President Gamaralalage Sirisena...
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in its latest report, has forecasted that the party backed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will win the next Presidential...
(Press Release / 28.08.2018.)
The Meeting of the Presidential Task Force on the Development of the North and East took place yesterday (27.08.2018) at the Presidential...
Image: Dharmasiri Bandaranayake. ( Nation.lk)
Reaffirm the power of culture over the culture of power - Edward Said.
It is a great honour to be invited...
Image (c)s.deshapriya: A fisherman looking at sea anxiously in the eastern city of Batticoloa. It difficult to ignore the question of justice in the...
Image: Iranian elections traditionally have a high turnout. copyrightAFP.
By Siavash Ardalan, BBC Persian.
Iran is due to hold a presidential election on 19 May, in which the incumbent...
Image: 15 women activists participated at the recently concluded CEDAW- Sri Lanka session.
In its concluding observations of the recently concluded consideration of the 8th...
(Remaining challenges on issues such as freedom of expression and media, strengthening of civil society needs to be addressed)
- Joint Press Release following the...
Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday made a historic order holding that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) does not suspend the application of the...
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 40/1 which requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
Image: The High Commissioner is particularly troubled the appointments of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, as Army Chief and Major General (retired) Kamal Gunaratne, as...
ON the 11th year of Prageeth Ekneligoda abduction and disappearance Sandaya Ekneligoda launched a new initiative launching Ekneligoda Forum and https://ekneligodaforum.org/.
Ekneligoda Forum is a...
