The United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) released their manifestos this week, outlining their plans for the...
The Tamil National Alliance – Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi .
Parliamentary Election – 2015 Manifesto.
At the time of independence from colonial rule in 1948, Ceylon...
Footage featuring former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa attempting to attack a spectator at one of his rallies has gone viral on social media.
The incident took place when the former...
CID bust massive money transaction during Presidential election; Rs. 149 million transferred from Chinese company’s accounts; Money used for T-shirts and caps sporting MR...
(Counting the votes, Sri Lanka)
European Union (EU) election observers today called for a violence free election as they formally began work ahead of the...
Secretary to the President tells Ministry Secretaries.
Secretary to the President P.B. Abeykoon in a special circular to all Ministry Secretaries and Provincial Secretaries has...
Fifty names to be included as 'war heroes'; Moves afoot to create public sympathy.
The government has received information that plans were afoot to release...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's main opposition launched its parliamentary election campaign declaring war against an alleged group of 5,000 young men and women deployed...
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday said that all media institutions including the private media agreed to implement the guidelines outlined by the department during...
Sri Lanka's wartime president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is set to contest in the August parliamentary election. But how would the return of the long-time leader...
Refused by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) as ‘untouchables,’ the 10 rehabilitated ex-LTTE cadres who are contesting from the newly-formed political party Crusaders for...
Following an invitation from the Sri Lanka authorities, the European Union has today started the deployment of an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Sri...
The Election Secretariat yesterday admitted that the Parliamentary Elections Act lacked provisions to compel serving Chief Ministers as well as Provincial Council Ministers to...
President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to nominate his arch rival former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest the general elections from his party came as a...
In Lanka, talk of Cash flow fueling political jockeying, graft charges and memories of rights violations during former president’s rule loom over parliamentary polls
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By Upul Kumarapperuma
The Roman Empire was plagued by coups, conspiracies and wars nevertheless it was the most formidable Empire in Europe.
Julius Caesar became one...
ECONOMYNEXT - Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa who is opposition United People's Freedom Alliance in Kurunegala has dropped minority Tamils and Muslims from his list...
We the undersigned Sri Lankan civil society activists and organizations, wish to bring to your attention human rights issues of pivotal importance to reconciliation,...
Patali Champika Ranawaka of the JHU said the Front, if elected to power, would attach top priority to making the country prosperous.
The United National...
(Editorrial/Sunday Observer)
The issue of massive corruption in government has never before been raised as it has been during and after the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime....
A new group consisting of ex-LTTE cadres called Crusaders for Democracy insisted that they do not have an ‘Eelam objective’ behind their decision to...
A new Business Times (BT)-Research Consultancy Bureau (RCB) poll this week, just as the momentum takes off in the August 17 election
campaigning, has...
Elections Commissioner (EC) Mahinda Deshapriya has requested prospective candidates of the forthcoming Parliamentary polls to hand in their assets declaration forms along with their...
Broad political front to protect 'January 8 mandate'.
CBK to make special announcement next week CBK to make special announcement next week:
Several UPFA stalwarts decided...
(Rauf Hakeem announcing the decision)
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has decided to contest on the UNP ticket at the upcoming general election, SLMC...
(Saman Rathnapriya speaking at Civil Society meeting on 9th; (c) s.deshapriya)
Sobhitha Thera turns down President's request.
President to explain his position on July 13Rasika Jayakody...
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...
