The project of President Gotabaya seems to be the conversion of Sri Lanka from an uninterrupted, long-standing democracy and open society, into a second...
Image: Covid dead are being buried in NewYork' (Photo courtesy of AP tweeter)
The expert committee appointed by the Health Ministry to study the issue...
“The dignity of the dead, their cultural and religious traditions, and their families should be respected and protected throughout.” —World Health Organization, Infection prevention...
Image caption: Sri Lanka’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was elected last year on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock/TG.
The country insists all people who...
Image: The current controversy over Muslim burial issue has become handy to deflect the growing anti-regime anger. Saner minds from all communities are appealing...
While appreciating Sri Lanka’s relative success with the management of COVID-19, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) would like to express its strong condemnation of...
The parents of the 20-day-old infant who was cremated against their wishes filed a Fundamental Rights application before the Supreme Court through their Attorney...
Yesterday a small group of about 40-50 people belonging to all ethnic and religious backgrounds, gathered (whilst maintaining social distancing and wearing masks of...
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Colombo, Dec 1 (PTI) Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by members of the Muslim community against the government's regulation that...
Image: Recently the public was shocked to see a man being caught by villagers, swathed in polythene.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for...
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Issuing observations and recommendations on the disposal of dead bodies in
the context of COVID-19 Human Rights Commission of Sri...
Image: Hanaa Singer.
Ven. Jamburawela Chandraratne Thera, representing the People's Responsibility Centre (PRC), has criticised the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator to Sri Lanka, Hanaa...
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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: Daily FT/Shehan Gunasekara.
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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By Vyshnavy Velrajh.
(Colombo Gazette) Drones will be deployed to monitor movements in areas under lockdown in the country due to...
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...
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...
Image: (c)Shehan Gunasekara/Daily FT
On 15 October, the Sri Lankan authorities imposed a curfew in parts of Katunayake Free Trade Zone (KFTZ) after hundreds of...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
