The leader of Jathika Hela Urumaya party Rt Hon. Omalpe Sopitha Thero distributed 100 cows to low income families in Jaffna. Jaffna Army Commander Major Jeneral Uthaya Perera also took part in this donation by the […]
Queen leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Cenotaph Poppy memorial designer’s delight at extension for Tower of London display Two-week reprieve granted to parts of the display before they tour country and go to war museums […]
By C.V. Wigneswaran – Gurur Brahma ….. Honourable Chairman, distinguished guests, my dear Bharathian brothers and sisters! We are gathered here today to remember one of India’s greatest human rights’ leaders and jurist – the […]
RAVI LADDUWAHETTY REPORTING FROM KANDY Visiting Vice Chancellor, President and CEO of Monash University, Malaysia, Prof. Helen Bartlett, said yesterday a majority of the Sri Lanka students studying at heruniversity were simply outstanding in their […]
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today urged Putrajaya to stop treating activism against human rights violations in other countries by Malaysians as objectionable, as it does not interfere with other nations’ affairs. Throwing his […]
Slamming the central government and Supreme Court in his country, visiting Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province C V Wigneswaran today claimed “state violence” in the island continued and the judiciary too played a […]
Officers attached to the Kodikamam police station have arrested a group of personnel alleged to have engaged in a Sex trade racket that is going on in rest houses around Jaffna town. During interrogations it […]
Talpahewa takes over Nonis in London by Sujeeva Nivunhella in London Dr. Chanaka Thalpahewa, the newly appointed Deputy High Commissioner to London assumed duties last Thursday. He was serving as the Deputy High Commissioner in […]
A campaign to pressurise the President to abolish the Executive Presidency and implement the 19th Amendment would be launched by Venerable Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera and Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) President Venerable Athuraliye Ratana Thera on […]
Sri Lanka’s main party of Buddhist monks warned President Mahinda Rajapakse on Sunday it would withdraw support if he refused to loosen his grip on power before a snap election. The JHU, or National Heritage […]
BY SULOCHANA RAMIAH MOHAN The next hearing on the annulling of the restrictions imposed on the LTTE at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will take place before 15 January 2015, according the French Ambassador, […]
Merely Expelling Doubts – Keheliya Rambukwella The government says that the incumbent president can ask for the presidential election to be held on the best possible date for him after four years in office as […]
Selecting A Candidate To Beat Mahinda Rajapaksa The Opposition’s search for a common candidate to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the forthcoming presidential election has proved to be elusive, so far. But it should not be […]
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) recently passed a resolution demanding a separate administrative district for Muslims in the Ampara District claiming that the Muslim majority in the Ampara District face certain difficulties having administrative […]
By Easwaran Rutnam Human Rights Groups and NGOs have, in a joint report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT), accused Australia of failing to protect even legitimate Sri Lankan asylum seekers. The report, […]
by Legal Watch It is a long-standing joke that anyone who wants to peruse Sri Lanka’s Constitution is referred to the “periodicals” section of the Library. This is because since 1932 this Island nation of […]
