COLOMBO, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — China has helped Sri Lanka in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the island country now looks forward to furthering its ties with China in order to recover from […]
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2021, 11.30PM) The junta government of the Gotabaya-Mahinda Rajapaksa-led Rajapaksa family, which came to power swearing not to sell the country, has made all arrangements to sell 21 state-owned tea estates to China, reports […]
Minister’s withdrawal of security to a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) frontliner for participation in this protest is part and parcel of a grand pseudo-nationalist bonfire that we are witnessing to our intense mortification, fanned by […]
As Mr Lee would say, when Singapore parted from the alliance with Malaysia after the racial clashes in the early 1960 and Singapore wanted to be an independent state, Singapore’s leaders were in search of […]
The alarming spike in Covid-19 positive cases in Sri Lanka over the past few days could be associated with the widespread transmissibility of the highly contagious, mutant viral strain first identified in the United Kingdom, […]
The minister who leads the National Freedom Front did not deny his controversial statement for obvious reasons. His entire interview with the Sunday Lankadeepa was recorded and he could not take the well-worn route of […]
That Mr Weerawansa’s remarks stirred a hornet’s nest is to put it mildly. After all, the SLPP had been built on the sweat and toil of Basil Rajapaksa, its principal strategist. A top government leader […]
PM’s remark on Covid-19 burial, ‘Legalising only through Gazette amendment’ Political decision expressed on behalf of Govt. No special discussion on Covid-19 with Pakistani PM All Muslim MPs and Opposition seek meeting Notwithstanding the political decision […]
In one aspect, extra-judicial killings by various means such as enforced disappearances, Sri Lanka’s experience is much worse than in Myanmar where imprisonments were more than but killings after arrest were less. In Sri Lanka, […]
For the Rajapaksas, the minorities are aliens, permanent guests who will be allowed to live on sufferance, and on terms of manifest and submissive inequality. A case in point is the strangely similar genesis of […]
SLPP embarrasses Prime Minister; then buries its head in the COVID sand Nevertheless, the Government did not explain in Parliament as to why the PM had given an assurance that burials would be allowed, though […]
Colombo’s Archbishop His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday asked for a probe into those individuals who identify themselves as Christin pastors and indulge in unethical conversions targeting celebrities such as artistes, sportsmen, accomplished women and […]
What the P2P protest did was to provide an opportunity where the long-suppressed Sri Lankan Tamil community could engage in an imaginative political campaign of this scale and scope. It displayed to the world at […]
Several countries, including Sri Lanka, have strongly objected to the decision by the Organising Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, to hold the UNHRC sessions online, Minister of Foreign […]
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The Government was committed to uphold the policy of “One country-one law” Ven. Rathana Thera had said that the Muslim laws were violating human rights of Muslim women and girls By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan […]
But shouldn’t the National Anthem be sung in Tamil too, according to the Constitution of Sri Lanka? A: That I don’t know. No point in talking about our Constitution because it was changed 20 times. […]
y Dinasena Ratugamage India should surely support the resolution ,sponsored by several Western nations at the 46th sessions of the UNHRC, against Sri Lanka, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran said yesterday addressing journalists […]
COLOMBO — The Sri Lankan government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been placed in the hot seat ahead of a U.N. Human Rights Council session beginning later this month amid a failure to ensure accountability […]
The United States (US) Ambassador to Sri Lanka has questioned the poor coverage of the Pottuvil to Point Pedro (P2P) protest by the by Colombo-based media. Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz tweeted saying a peaceful protest is an […]
