The winner of Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential elections could change the nature of India’s relationship with its neighbour.
India’s Buddhist neighbours, Sri Lanka and Myanmar,...
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...
(Dr) Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel and Member of Parliament.
There is speculation that Parliament will be dissolved. Arguments have been made for and against the...
Continuing his swift disastrous strike last Friday, President Maithripala Sirisena has taken a familiar problem of public fury with an inept and malfunctioning Government...
Ports and Shipping Minister and SLFP spokesman Mahinda Samarasinghe Thursday (Oct 4) insisted President Maithripala Sirisena wouldn’t give in to Western pressure under any...
Former Secretary to the then Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda, has held him and Lt. Commander Sumith Ranasinghe accountable if 11 children had gone missing...
by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole.
The Anti-Mahaweli Tamils’ Heritage Forum submitting a petition to Mullaitivu District Secretary Ms. Ketheeswaran on ‘Colonization’
The Anti-Mahaweli Tamils’ Heritage Forum...
January 8 is remembered for change. First there was the brutal killing in broad daylight of Journalist and Editor Lasantha Wickramatunga who stood out...
By S. Rubatheesan.
Meant to be a temporary stop, Keppapilavu feels like the end of the line.
Three years after Thiruchelvan Ketheeswaran arrived in Keppapilavu village...
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...
(EconomyNext) The much awaited talks between President Maithripala Sirisena and his arch rival predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa ended without a deal Wednesday, but the...
To: All Honourable Members of Parliament.
An earnest request to the Sri Lankan Parliamentarians:Support the passage of the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution
As you...
It is amidst an impending parliamentary election that more details of abuses and irregularities at the January presidential election are now emerging. A shocking...
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake today charged that President Maithripala Sirisena was behind the statements made by Minister Patali Champika...
Fulfilling her wish to come back to her political home, President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed Former president Chandrika Kumaratunga as the chair of the...
Speaking at the Cabinet media briefing today, Cabinet Media Spokesperson Minister Rajitha Senaratne elaborated on a new electoral system. The Minister added that a...
By Izeth Hussain-
The recent Nugegoda rally in favour of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa would of course have been meticulously organized, but all the same...
the guardian./ason Burke in Colombo
Maithripala Sirisena’s election victory in January has brought optimism to Colombo after nine years of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s controversial and divisive...
Sri Lanka's foreign minister met with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, and U.N. diplomatic sources said he pressed his government's desire to delay...
Feb 13, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today assured the diplomatic community that his government will not hesitate to punish the offenders of...
A ‘slip of the tongue’ and a celluloid crusader’s unfortunate downfall
Confusion has been worse confounded in the public mind following the conviction this week...
The Prisons Department has called for applications to recruit 200 male Prison Guards from those who have retired from the defence services after completing...
GENEVA, (15 January 2021) - The Human Rights Council today elected Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office...
