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The Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC) has given judgment in Arumugam and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department,…

The term Indopazifischer Raum (Indo-Pacific Space) coined by German geopolitical thinker Karl Haushofer in 1920, is perhaps the first academic statement on…

Senior Lecturer in the Transportation Engineering Division of Moratuwa University says that the Japanese-funded Light Railway Transport (LRT) project in…

The report of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pitched for full implementation of a constitutional provision by the new Sri Lankan government…

The Actg. Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka at UN replying to the United Nations Special Rapporteur’s report during the Interactive…

The Human Rights Council opened its forty-fifth regular session on 14 September 2020, hearing a global human rights update from…

In its annual report “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) 2020” that was submitted to…

A delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) called on the Indian High Commissioner, Gopal Baglay, here on Friday. The…

As Sri Lanka struggles with outstanding foreign debt, rural households across the country have been living off borrowings after exhausting their savings. Meera Srinivasan reports on how those…

Twice postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Sri Lankans finally voted on Wednesday, 5 August in the country’s parliamentary election.…

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPGT) in the UK has called upon Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, to implement…

the August 5, 2020 elections in Sri Lanka has been a turning point: first, it was organised amidst opposition and…

The general elections on 5 August turned out to be an outstanding victory for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP),…

The Sri Lanka People’s Party (SLPP) won 145 seats in the 5 August parliamentary election, and its allies won five…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s governing party won a majority of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary seats, the Election Commission announced Friday, bringing the…

With the new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa winning the election in Nov 2019 almost exclusively with the majority Sinhala-Buddhist vote, Tamil…

Sri Lanka’s upcoming parliamentary elections will serve as an indicator of the island’s future political direction, potential executive power buildup,…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) in a press release has stated that “The people of Sri Lanka are facing some…

Keen to counter China’s influence in Sri Lanka, India on Friday extended a $400 million currency swap facility with Colombo…

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tabled the 2019 Foreign and Commonwealth Office report on Human Rights and Democracy, in the…

Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément N. Voule…

The British government announced on 6 July 2020 that it was blacklisting 49 individuals and organizations under a new Britain-only…

Chatham House commissioned a study of Chinese outbound investment and the BRI in Sri Lanka. The study, which is the…

Delivering a statement at the 44th session of the UNHRC on behalf of the Core Group on Sri Lanka (Canada,…

The Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 was released on 24 June 2020. The report covers developments in countries in which…

A report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi…

The US Department of State 2019, annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom – the International Religious Freedom Report…

Last week, the de facto leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), M.A. Sumanthiran, gave an interview to a Sinhala…

Christian Drosten, who directs the Institute of Virology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, was one of those who identified…

As Governments face the formidable challenge of protecting people from COVID-19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has…

Following his election as president of Sri Lanka in 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has taken a strong stand against federalism and…

The former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke to Palki Sharma, on the global leadership series on WION,…

Exactly a 100 year ago, Sri Lanka had the experience of going through a horrendous pandemic the Spanish flu or…

Some 10,000 frontline health workers in Sri Lanka are working tirelessly to arrest the spread of COVID-19 that has affected…

“We simply cannot return to where we were just a few months ago”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle…

May the New Year bring you joy and contentment in these difficult times.

Former Jaffna District Parliamentarian and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran PC engaged in an informative conversation  with…

Sri Lanka has been under curfew for over a fortnight. The near-total lockdown and the over 10,000 violators that police…

In the midst of preparing for elections in Sri Lanka, main Opposition leader and former minister and presidential hopeful Sajith…

Rupert Colville, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in a statement rekeased said the…

Sri Lankan national Arun Selvarajan has been sentenced to five years in connection with the sensational Thameem Ansari spy case.…

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2019 was released by US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo…

Just Five years ago, the Rajapaksa family seemed to have lost everything. Mahinda Rajapaksa was beaten during the presidential race…

British Parliamentarian Afzal Khan, asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on 26 February 2020, whether he…

International non-governmental organisations have called on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to establish “an international accountability mechanism on Sri…

The culture of impunity in Sri Lanka has been repeatedly pointed out as one of the main reasons for which…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has urged the Sri Lankan Government to fully implement resolution 30/1,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he was confident that the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa”s government “will realize…

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) released a statement on 03 February 2020 calling on Switzerland to deny accreditation…

Since his election on 16 November 2019, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, have…

The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells briefed the press at the…

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa faces his first test of diplomacy three months into his inaugural term, as he seeks…

A German court convicted a Sri Lankan man Monday of accessory to murder in the 2005 killing of the South…

Sri Lanka suffered its worst communal violence in 2029, since the end of the civil war when Islamist suicide bombers…

Ex-Chief Minister of Northern Province in Sri Lanka says the Indian and Sri Lankan governments should work out a specific…

When Chinese President Xi Jinping first unveiled the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013,it was heralded as one of the…

The seemingly serene, emerald green island of Sri Lanka on the Indian Ocean is worried that it is headed for…

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people.…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar met US Secretary of Defense Dr Mark T…

India is increasing the area covered by its Indo-Pacific policy to include the western Indian ocean and Arabian Sea. This…

Religious nationalism played the central role in the recently-held Sri Lankan presidential election, in which Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa came away…

Gotabaya Rajapakse won Sri Lanka’s Presidential Elections on November 16. This is not the first time Sri Lanka has had…

Promising to be “frank” and “upfront” to avoid the misunderstandings of the past between New Delhi and Colombo, Sri Lankan…

Earlier this month, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president, following his victory in the country’s eighth presidential…

India expects the newly-elected President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa to boost the national reconciliation policy with the Tamil community…

Gotabaya Rajapaksa of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) convincingly won the Lankan Presidential election held on November 16. Gotabaya…

The winner of Sri Lanka’s presidential election on November 16, 2019 will face enormous challenges to deliver justice for past…

The former Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province C.V.Wigneswaran has said that his organization the Tamil Makkal Koottani…

A parliamentary panel in Sri Lanka has accused President Maithripala Sirisena of “actively undermining” government and security systems, leading to…

US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Alice G. Wells told the House Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the…

India is keeping a close watch on the upcoming presidential elections in Sri Lanka, where pro-China Gotabaya Rajapaksa is pitted…

Should Tamils boycott Sri Lanka’s elections in November for the executive presidency? Should Tamils boycott Sri Lanka’s elections in November…

“Half the blood in our bodies is sucked by these leeches. Can’t someone find some medicine to keep them away?”…

What’s new? Easter Sunday’s bombings produced Sri Lanka’s deadliest single day of terrorist violence and its first experience of Muslim-on-Christian mass…

The United Nations suspended Sri Lankan Army deployments in the world body’s peacekeeping operations after the Indian Ocean island nation…

The Sri Lankan Presidential election, to be held on November 16, is likely to be a referendum on the continuation…

Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority is gearing up to operate commercial flights from the island’s northern city of Jaffna to…

The National People’s Power (NPP) presidential candidate, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, in a recent interview with…

Jaffna district MP and Tamil National Alliance spokesman on the national unity government’s performance, the 13th Amendment, and India’s relations…

Simmering ethno-religious tensions in Sri Lanka require urgent action by the authorities to strengthen respect for freedom of religion or…

Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by Islamist extremists that killed 258…

India, Turkey, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are among the new countries where the Islamic State (IS) terror group has found…

The U.S. government’s new military blueprint in the Indian Ocean is facing headwinds in Sri Lanka, a strategically located South…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule said Sri…

The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church Sunday called for the government to resign over its alleged failure to…

It’s no secret that the British are very serious about their tea.Now a London hotel has taken this dedication to…

India is keeping a close watch as protests grow in Sri Lanka over a proposed pact with the US, which…

Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero yesterday pledged to build a Sinhala Parliament that would…

The Islamic State (IS) may have claimed responsibility for the Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka, but its chief Abu…

The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the…

India and Sri Lanka are likely to be under threat with terror group ISIS turning its attention to the Indian…

I isolate the following two from an email message I received recently: “The anti-Tamil feeling began in 1949  with the…

United States Representatives from both main parties discussed the threat of radical Sinhala nationalism in Sri Lanka and the country’s lack…

Thanks to former President Abdulla Yameen’s pro-China policies as also his crackdown on the opposition on the eve of Prime…

18 May 2019 was a doubly significant day in Sri Lanka. Not only did it mark the ten-year anniversary of…

Releasing the US Department of Defense Indo – Pacific Strategy Report Preparedness, Partnerships, and Promoting a Networked Region on 01…

When bombs planted in churches and hotels killed more than 200 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, few had…

At first, they were nameless. “Nine suicide bombers,” is all authorities would reveal. In a little over a week, the…

Having landed a few minutes earlier here at Colombo’s international airport, our jam-packed flight from the Maldives is disembarking its…

The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka last month were a massive human tragedy for a country that has already experienced…

In the days since Islamist terrorists carried out attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, a…

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the 10th year since the Tamil genocide in Sri…

A Sri Lankan software engineer suspected by authorities in Sri Lanka of having provided technical and logistical support to the…

Centre extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Tuesday for violent and disruptive activities that…

Two prominent political groups representing Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, in the north-east and the hill country, have decided to work…

Sri Lanka’s battle against Islamic extremism would involve two integral parts: (a) an intelligence driven kinetic approach to flush out,…

Dr. Ameer Ali, a prominent Islamic scholar and a former adviser of Muslim Affairs of Australian Prime Minister, John Howard’s…

The Easter Sunday carnage in which more than 250, mostly Christians, were killed is the most violent terrorist act in…

Under the nose of a state that took peace for granted, members of two lesser-known radical organizations and sons of…

ISIS has released the second video of its supreme leader, Abu Bakr Baghdadi on April 29, the first since he…

The April 21 suicide attacks in Sri Lanka, which were claimed by the Islamic State, may indicate that the militant…

Church bells tolled mournfully at Colombo’s devastated St Anthony’s Shrine on Sunday, as scores of Christians wept but defiantly prayed…

Two days after the bombings in Sri Lanka, the Islamic State came out and said it was behind them. It…

Central agencies responsible for countering the influence of Islamic State in India have found that Sri Lanka-based National Towheed Jama’at…

The Islamic State and the Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Watania group have both claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks carried out in…

As Christians in Sri Lanka gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter Mass, powerful explosions ripped through three churches packed…

Exasperation with the current UNP regime and its much hyped ‘good governance’ promise with which it won the votes of…

Labannawu nawa wasarakiriyen peniyen pirisamaya sathuta raja karanaleda dukin thorawedi wediyen lebenaSuba Aluth awruddak wewa

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has completed its first visit to Sri Lanka from 2 to 12…

Ruling AIADMK top leader O Paneerselvam Thursday accused the DMK and Congress of being responsible for the “genocide” of Tamils…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) acknowledges the passing of the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’…

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s resolution on the rights situation in Sri Lanka, which was passed in Geneva on…

Foreign Minister, Tilak Marapana, denied that the armed forces had committed war crimes and that it is not possible to…

Ahead of a resolution on Sri Lanka set to come up for procedural extension at the end of the 42nd…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) calls on the international community and the members of the UNHRC, to ensure that Sri…

Is Sri Lanka on the path to establishing its own Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)? The answer, at least if…

Amid the increasing Chinese influence over the strategically important Indo-Pacific region, a top Pentagon commander has advocated sustained US engagement…

The UK government once again dismissed Lord Naseby’s call to terminate Geneva Resolution 30/1 in 2015 and Resolution 34/1 in…

Sri Lanka – a Tea Island, is known for its diverse cultures and scenic beauty. While blessed with fortunes of…

The former Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, on Sunday praised Velupillai Prabhakaran, the slain leader of…

The ideological moorings of leaders in Sri Lanka, as they struggle for power, are as important as the strategic stakes…

n July 2017 the Sri Lankan government renewed, for another ten years, the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the…

Human Rights Watch released the ‘World Report 2019’, reviewing human rights practices in more than 100 countries. HRW states that…

The Constitutional Expert Committee’s report, which was tabled in the Sri Lankan parliament on Friday abolishes the powerful Executive Presidency…

Points to be considered for the extension of the retirement age of the members of the Security Forces. The reviewing…

Plantation union discussing deal with companies Recent media reports indicate that Sri Lankan plantation unions are preparing to drop workers’…

Another year starts and with it, new hopes and aspirations, a faint desire that sprouts in every human heart that…

Sri Lanka saw cataclysmic political events in 2018. Democracy, which was introduced way back in 1931 and was thought to…

As you celebrate Christmas, may you experience true love. Jesus is the reason for the season and the epitome of true love.…

The Tamil National Alliance has written to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya not to recognize MP Mahinda Rajapaksa as Leader of the…

Sri Lanka’s president accused newly reappointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of corrupt leadership in a scathing speech Sunday in which…

Not for the first time in recent weeks, Sri Lankans held a collective breath on the afternoon of December 13th,…

 Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, December 13, that President Maithripala Sirisena’s order to dissolve Parliament and hold new…

In the first week of December, Sri Lanka’s political crisis deepened after the country’s Court of Appeal issued an interim…

The current political impasse in Sri Lanka marks an important opportunity for Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa to think about the…

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena continued to manoeuvre over the past week in an desperate attempt to secure a deal…

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirsena by sacking Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 26 this year has not only precipitated…

Sri Lanka’s political crisis took another turn yesterday when all the MPs backing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse walked out of…

Two men each claim to be the prime minister. Lawmakers are exchanging blows in Parliament. A former finance minister says…

The political crisis in Sri Lanka that began on 26 October when President Maithripala Sirisena appointed former President and Sinhala…

This week, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court made a dramatic intervention in the country’s deepening political crisis, a move that may…

Gleaming cranes stretch out on the waterfront in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo as Chinese companies construct a $1.5 billion…

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he is willing to work with President Maithripala Sirisena, who abruptly sacked him…

A  constitutional crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka – and that is causing concern in New Delhi as it may…

What is happening in Sri Lanka right now sits somewhere in between House of Cards, Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s…

Independent of the domestic outcomes of the current constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka, it may have already opened up the…

How did Sri Lanka find itself in a crisis and how will it affect its foreign policy? The Diplomat‘s Ankit…

A political crisis is gripping Sri Lanka as fears deepen over a possible resurgence of violence—and even civil war. The…

The return of Mahinda Rajapaksa to power in Sri Lanka has been the subject of speculation for some time. The…

Sri Lanka has been plunged into a constitutional crisis after the president ousted the prime minister, a move that took…

The Tamizh Makkal Kootani (TMK) or Tamil Peoples’ Alliance (TPA) which C.V.Wigneswaran, the former Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority…

Addressing the last sitting of the Northern Provincial Council on 23 October 2018 Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran blamed the Government…

Sri Lanka’s draft counterterrorism law significantly improves upon the current, abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) but needs further safeguards…

Human Rights Watch  Released a Report About Occupation of Civilian Owned Lands in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka by the…

It is nearly a decade since the civil war in Sri Lanka ended, but for many families the long struggle…

Remarks delivered by President Mike Pence on the administration’s policy towards China at Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018:   …

Japan’s largest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, sailed into Sri Lanka’s Colombo harbor this weekend, marking Tokyo’s highest profile salvo…

Sri Lanka’s near three-decade ethnic war and numerous conflicts were used to justify attempts by successive governments to introduce and…

As doubts grow over China’s vast “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for…

The US state Department released its Country Report on Terrorism on 19 September 2018, which describes the global counter terrorism…

Sri Lanka is ready to rise again — a nation on the path to sustained growth path, that is. That’s…

Douglas Devananda, 61, is the leader of the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) and a MP in the Sri Lankan…

From a man who had ceased to be India’s favourite to the reach-out and engagement with New Delhi now, former…

Mr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky the United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial…

The 39th session of the Human Rights Council commenced in Geneva  today (10 September). In the opening statement by the…

The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) released its interim report on 06 September 2018 and called on the Government to “expedite…

India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka may plunge further into the Chinese debt trap with Colombo yet again turning to Beijing…

Winston Churchill famously claimed that of all human qualities, courage was the most esteemed, because it guaranteed all others. He…

Months into the first stint of my Colombo assignment, I noticed something. My copy sounded distinctly better whenever I quoted…

Northern Province Chief Minister Canagasabapathy Viswalingam Wigneswaran is a retired Supreme Court judge. Much was expected of CV Wigneswaran when…

Nineteen couples from China and Sri Lanka became man and wife at a mass wedding ceremony in Negombo near here…

The United States Annual Report on Military and Security Developments mandated by Congress has made references to Hambantota Port. The…

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham: The government will complete three years in office today (17), marking a milestone of sorts when the two…

A short while after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war came to an end in May 2009, Tamil Nadu’s then chief…

Several U.S. senators are pressing the Trump administration to detail what it is doing to deal with Beijing’s financing of…

The Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland who is currently on a four day official visit met the TNA leader R…

Nine years after the end of Sri Lanka’s long drawn conflict between Government forces and the LTTE, the Northern Province…

MYTH 1: Chinese lending is commercial. FACT: Since 2012 most Chinese lending is concessionary. In the last five years Sri…

Over the past year, as India kept making a bid to acquire the Mattala airport in South Sri Lanka, which…

Sri Lanka’s progress towards reform has “virtually ground to a halt” and brutal torture is used with impunity, the UN…

Dr. Satoru Nagao, a Japanese expert on maritime security who is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute in…

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) 2017 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report covering  the period from January to…

*Salient points of Hon. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s speech at the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute Salient Convocation on Friday…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has opted out of the Presidential Task Force on…

India will adopt a broad, three-pronged approach to deal with China’s increasing engagement in the South Asian and Indian Ocean…

Addressing Parliament on  6th of July 2018 TNA leader Mr R Sampanthan  said, our country has no future unless we…

The 21 km-long Puthukkudiyiruppu-Oddusuddan road progressing through the hinterland of North-Eastern Mullaitivu District, links Puthukkudiyiruppu on the A-35 Paranthan-Mullaitivu highway…

India can have the biggest political impact on Sri Lanka’s election, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said, adding that he…

Every time Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port…

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has been facing an internal and external crisis for some time now, with the Northern…

IMF Executive Board Completed the Fourth Review Under the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility and Concluded the 2018…

Sri Lanka’s top five general insurance providers which account for two-thirds of the market share, is seem to exploit the…

The arch above the school gate sits like a crown over the pillars that support it on either side. It…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, is likely to launch a Tamil Diaspora-backed political party in…

On June 1, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the fourth review of Sri Lanka’s…

The International Religious Freedom Report for 2017 was released US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador at Large for…

Outgoing US Ambassador Atul Keshap has said his country wants to walk hand-in-hand with all Sri Lankans to see the…

China, on Wednesday said that as of the end of 2017, Chinese companies had completed more than US 15 billion…

Due to geo-political compulsions, Sri Lanka has to keep its relations with the West and India on an even keel.…

Thousands of people in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated northern province on Friday participated in a commemorative ceremony to observe the ninth…

The Chinese government is leveraging billions of dollars in debts to gain political leverage with developing countries across Asia and…

The Sri Lanka army has set up a ‘Directorate of Overseas Operations’ dedicated to preparing material to defend itself against…

The much-maligned Indo-Lanka Peace Accord of 1987 is back in public focus, courtesy T. Ramakrishnan’s book Or Inapprachinaiyum Or Oppandhamum…

The Coalition Government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe may soon be facing a political challenge from an…

At the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, which met in Geneva in February and March 2018, the High…

Sri Lanka’s economy grew at the slowest pace in 16 years to record a worse than expected 3.1 percent GDP…

The leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R.Sampanthan, told Tamils on Tuesday what they should do secure their rights…

The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017 was released on 21 April 2018. The  Country Reports on Human Rights…

  Revenue mobilization can make space for social spending while reducing public debt. Reforms of state-owned enterprises are critical to…

The fallout of the local government elections continues as a political crisis. The anti-Muslim violence, the no-confidence motion and its…

A development success story in many ways, Sri Lanka still faces critical challenges as it strives to become an upper…

By the end of 2017, Chinese companies had completed more than US$15 billion worth of infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka…

Sri Lanka is to ask Facebook to set up an office in Colombo to help monitor content posted in the…

The resounding defeat of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Sri Lanka’s parliament provides an opportunity for…

The Council of the European Union has relisted the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organisation. The…

With Sri Lanka under a state of emergency after a spasm of anti-Muslim bloodshed, lawyer Jeevanee Kariyawasam went on Facebook…

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka is seeking foreign investment from India, Japan and others amid criticism over his…

Little disturbs the serenity of Guan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion, as her statue sits in contemplation at the centre…

Three years after he was swept out of office, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s former President, thinks he is in with…

Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Kate Gilmore, the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights…

Ravinatha Aryasinha, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Office at Geneva, said on 19 March 2018, that of…

A news report by India’s World Is One News (WION) claims that while Sinhalese intolerance is on the rise in…

Whenever violence is unleashed on ethnic minority communities, political leaders from South almost by rote, hold a small group responsible…

Rauff Hakeem is the Minister of City Planning and Water Supply in Sri Lanka’s national unity government and the leader…

Sri Lanka’s week-long state of emergency has not been lifted, as expected. It was imposed after Muslim-owned homes and businesses…

An IMF staff team led by Manuela Goretti visited Colombo from February 27 – March 9 to hold discussions for…

Sri Lanka on Tuesday declared an island-wide state of emergency to curb heightening anti-Muslim violence in the country’s Central Province.…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has urged the on-going 37 th.Session of the UN Human Rights council (UNHRC) in Geneva…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein in his report on Sri Lanka to the…

The fresh political crisis in Sri Lanka should have New Delhi concerned. The strong showing by the opposition Sri Lanka…

With a banner sporting a picture of Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) founder S.J.V. Chelvanayakam in the background, senior Tamil…

Sri Lanka is poised to become even more indebted to Beijing with the return of pro-China ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, after…

Sri Lanka’s local government election held on February 10 has become more than a mid-term poll that usually helps the…

Through the all-island local bodies elections held on February 10, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s  Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna…

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examined Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Panama, Seychelles, Spain, Solomon Islands, Palau and…

When Sri Lanka’s government first looked to develop a port on its southern coast that faced the Indian Ocean, it…

Sri Lanka’s local government elections, scheduled to be held on February 10, have elicited the interest of a national election,…

Human Rights Watch released a 46-page report, “Locked Up Without Evidence: Abuses under Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act,”  on  28…

A former active member of the LTTE and many of his colleagues in the erstwhile outfit, have come forward to…

The European Commission  called on the Government to deliver on important reforms, expressing concerns over the failure to repeal the…

Human Rights Watch released its 2018 World Report on 18 January 2018. In its report on Sri Lanka HRW said the…

At the time, it was seen as an astonishing victory. In retrospect, it was also something of a Pyrrhic one.…

The IMF  released the ‘staff’ report pertaining to the third review of the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility…

By Adam Allington: Tea farmers in Sri Lanka want their government to reauthorize the use of glyphosate for agriculture. The…

Shannine Daniel.                                     Bees…

R. Sampanthan, leader of the Opposition in Sri Lanka’s Parliament, is also the country’s seniormost politician, having been in politics…

Hang on to your truth and respect the truth of others Choose to be happy Forgive those you can forgive…

The visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono to Sri Lanka on 5 January is going to be short…

On the eve of his R.K. Nagar byelection victory, T.T.V. Dhinakaran had a chance meeting with Sri Lankan Tamil leader…

The true meaning of Christmas is giving and sharing the love and reaching out to those who have touched our…

China’s political assertion in the Indian Ocean, especially Sri Lanka and Maldives, is a response to India’s moves in the…

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has identified significant challenges to the enjoyment of the right to personal liberty…

India plans to buy the world’s emptiest airport in an effort to limit China’s influence in the Indian Ocean. Designed…

The Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) Leader and Jaffna District Parliamentarian Mavai S. Senathirajah is confident that the Tamil National…

The British High Commission has declared that Lord Naseby’s recent statement in the House of Lords pertaining to accountability issues…

Across Asia, religious fundamentalism is posing a growing threat to liberal society. Even Sri Lanka, a country that has only…

Defying the government ban, leaders of a pro-Tamil party celebrated the 63rd birth anniversary of the slain LTTE chief Velupillai…

As the sun began to set over the Vanni last November, thousands of locals stood before the crumbled remains of…

US lawmakers have expressed concern over China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ or OBOR initiative and sought recommendations for improving development…

Making interventions during the interactive dialogue of Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review, UN member states Macedonia, Austria, USA, UK, Germany,…

Government envoys from Sri Lanka told the U.N.’s top human rights body Wednesday that their country is taking new steps…

Sri Lanka will come under Universal Periodic Review  of the UN Human Rights Council on  15th of November at Palais…

1) Legislative Reforms: The budget has identified the key legislative impediments to the ease of doing business and the efficient…

As Sri Lanka prepares for the 3rd cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on November 15th 2017, a critical…

In a joint statement issued following the the second U.S.-Sri Lanka Partnership Dialogue between the Governments of the United States…

Sri Lanka and China, on Saturday declared open the ‘Sri Lanka,China Logistics and Industrial Zone Office’ in Hambantota, in the…

There is a developmental model – and money – beyond the example of China and its financing for Asian countries…

Even Pakistan’s prime minister did not believe it could happen but when Sri Lanka visit the eastern city of Lahore…

The Government of Sri Lanka has not made sufficient progress in fulfilling its commitments on transitional justice and related reform…

A meeting was held today between the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice reparation and guarantees…

The main reason for the reluctance to hold elections to the local bodies and the Provincial Councils in Sri Lanka…

Leaders of the opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA), including the leader of the official parliamentary Opposition, R.Sampanthan, boycotted Sri Lankan…

Pope Francis met on Friday with members of an organizing committee for the journey that he made to Sri Lanka…

By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka.                                     …

The change in the political environment in Sri Lanka recently saw the head of a leading Tamil diaspora group visiting…

Two weeks have passed since the presentation of the Interim Report of  the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly to…

Sri Lanka’s government since 2015 was elected on a promise of a new constitution that would find a solution to…

Admitting that his organisation set certain wrong examples in the past, but having understood their mistake the BBS is planning…

Judges can no longer rely on the media to explain court decisions and should instead use the “golden opportunity” of…

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan yesterday assured that constitutional making process would be done within the firm framework…

Tamils should not be obsessed with words such as federalism, the TNA leader and leader of the Opposition, R. Sampanthan,…

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was said to be one of the colourful Presidents in the Asian region, amidst having…

At long last, on Tuesday, Sri Lanka got what the minority Tamils and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have…

Addressing the opening of the 36th session UN Human Rights Council session, on 11 September 2017, in Geneva,  United Nations High…

US Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Alice Wells Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs U.S. Department of State making submission to…

The Government made a crucial breakthrough yesterday by winning provisional support from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Sri…

A Chinese expert on  international relation,s Ruan Zongze, Executive Vice President of the China Institute of International Relations, has said…

The Tamil National Alliance met US Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador Alice Wells and Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma…

A former Sri Lankan general accused of war crimes by human rights groups has left Brazil, where until recently he…

There is an intention in the top echelons of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) to re-orient the party’s policies…

In a unanimous verdict, a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday declared that privacy is intrinsic to…

Four years ago, Sri Lanka built Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Hambantota, 250 km south from Colombo, with Chinese…

It’s been two years since two of Sri Lanka’s largest political groupings – the United National Party (UNP) and the…

Sri Lanka’s Minister for Justice and Buddha Sasana, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, appears to be making a bid to capture the island’s…

Two years into its five-year term, Sri Lanka’s coalition government led by President Maithipala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe…

The IMF Completed the Second Review of the Extended Arrangement Under the EFF with Sri Lanka and Approved a US$…

August 2017 marks 150 years of tea production in Sri Lanka. To mark this anniversary, there have been several celebratory…

The Tamils of North and East of Sri Lanka do not consider themselves as minorities. They consider themselves as the…

In Sri Lanka’s North Central province, a land of crumbling Buddhist temples and gently swaying palms, farmers have cultivated rice…

The long-delayed $1.1bn sale of a 70 percent stake in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port, which straddles the world’s busiest east-west…

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has spoken highly of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, expressing the hope that…

Thirty years have passed, not so quietly, since President J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of…

The 2016 Foreign & Commonwealth Office report on Human Rights and Democracy was presented to the UK Parliament on 20…

In the backdrop of a crisis at the Northern Provincial Council (NPC), its Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran, during an interview…

The Sri Lankan government has done “almost nothing” to hold human rights violators in the military to account said Ben Emmerson, the…

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the principal Tamil grouping in Sri Lanka, has denied media reports that it is planning…

In a significant step to curb bottom trawling by Indian fishermen in the shallow waters between North Sri Lanka and…

The registration of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), as a political party, has been halted due to internal strife, sources…

Sri Lanka vowed Wednesday to grant greater autonomy to its Tamil minority in a new constitution after an influential Buddhist…

The United States had “a detailed coordinated plan” with the Indian and Sri Lanka Governments for its Navy to rescue…

Delivering the Grotius Lecture at the Law Society, London on 26 June 2017 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid…

The events that unfolded this week shockingly foretells the story of the very rapid collapse of the secular state in…

It has become problematic for the Sri Lankan government to arrest and sentence the virulently anti-Muslim Buddhist monk, Ven. Galagoda…

Even as the spat between Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran and the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) leader R.Sampanthan ended…

Controversial Northern province chief minister Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Wigneswaran who has lost the confidence of at least 22 out of 38…

Uncertainty continued in Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council on Friday, after discussions between Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan…

The political conflict in Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, which escalated dangerously on Thursday, appeared to be heading for…

One of the coordinators of the newly formed North-East Hill Country Tamil People’s Forum, and Former Northern Provincial Councillor M.P.…

By rushing the Navy and relief material at the first signs of the rains and floods in Sri Lanka recently,…

The World Bank says economic reforms, International Monetary Fund programs and resumption of European Union’s Generalized System of Preferences Plus…

India’s swift delivery of relief supplies and personnel to flood and landslide-hit Sri Lanka has re-affirmed its position as Sri…

A manhunt is on in Sri Lanka for a hard-line Buddhist leader after a series of attacks on mosques and…

Nuwara-Eliya District Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) MP Mylvaganam Tilakaraj in an interview with the Daily Mirror highlights issues confronting plantation-based Tamil…

The International Crisis Group in a report titled ‘Sri Lanka’s Transition to Nowhere’ released on 16 May 2017, in  Brussels,…

Last week has been eventful. And I was conflicted on whether to write about the Sri Lankan visit of Indian…

India’s prime minister emphasized common heritage with Sri Lanka on Friday as he tries to woo the island neighbor that’s…

As families of the disappeared pass the two-month mark of their roadside protests demanding answers to the whereabouts of their…

In a statement released on 4 May, Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party said it was “deeply perturbed” by the government’s policy…

After 20 years in India, wearing a “refugee” tag that led her from one camp to another, it was only…

Over the past few weeks, temperatures across South Asia have steadily built up ahead of the summer rains. There has…

As Delhi and Colombo intensify their high-level political engagement, new opportunities for elevating the partnership are coloured by enduring suspicions…

As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern realms of…

By Padma Rao Sundarji.                                  …

International actors, notably India and Japan have become increasingly concerned about the level of Chinese investment and influence in Sri…

Pahan silak se ‘NETHU’ dal wewa Wasanthayak se ‘DIWI’ saru wewa, Pium vilak se ‘SUWADA’ sedewa, Me nawa wasare ‘KIRI’…

A South Korean ship unloads its cargo of cars at the Hambantota port, the only sign of life at Sri…

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and China. Over the past…

By Shashi Tharoor.                                    …

The British Home Office Country Policy and Information Note March 2017 in its  updated policy guidance  to Home Office decision makers on…

Your government came to power in 2015 promising to improve relations with its closest neighbour India. But core issues continue…

Ahilan Kadirgamar.                                    …

By C.V. Wigneswaran.                                  …

Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented his report pursuant to Human Rights Council…

China will retaliate if India continues to be uneasy with Beijing’s increasing influence in south Asia and attempts to meddle…

Presenting the report following her October 2016 visit to Sri Lanka, Special Rapporteur, Ms Rita Izsák, said “I acutely felt…

Issuing a statement on 9 March 2017, the Global Tamil Forum requests GoSL to ‘present a comprehensive strategy on transitional…

The US Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016 was released on 7 March 2017. They are…

A 22-year-old Indian fisherman was shot dead today allegedly by the Sri Lankan navy while he was fishing in a…

The slow pace of transitional justice in Sri Lanka and the lack of a comprehensive strategy to address accountability for…

When it comes to labor costs, Sri Lanka is a bargain, considering the size of its economy, according to statistics…

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Sri Lanka is determined to address concerns on human…

Opposition and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan observed yesterday that China did not interfere in the internal affairs…

India will not be pressing Sri Lanka to merge the Northern and Eastern Provinces to form a single Tamil-majority, Tamil-speaking…

Even as Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa angles for a political comeback, New Delhi appears to be weighing up…

Observations of a recently declassified Intelligence Assessment, ‘Sri Lanka: The Challenge of Communal Violence’ compiled jointly by the United States Department…

China will delay a planned $1.1 billion investment in a port on its modern-day “Silk Road” until Sri Lanka clears…

The Chief Minister of the Tamil-majority Northern Province of Sri Lanka, C.V.Wigneswaran, has admitted that “some unfortunate incidents” of the…

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister says his country needs more time to fulfil promises given to the U.N. human rights body…

Sri Lanka was forced into making a deal with India as its own armed forces had twice refused to “take…

“What was your first military operation”? was a question posed to Veluppillai Prabhakaran in a media interview many years ago.…

China signed a deal with Sri Lanka late last year to further develop the strategic port of Hambantota and build…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka Tamil-majority Northern Province C.V.Wigneswaran has suggested that the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) explore the…

‘Insider Knowledge’ can be roughly defined as real-time intelligence that shapes the events and gives us a peep into situation…

A UN Special Rapporteur, in a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has recommended that Sri Lanka…

FORECAST This year will bring more political infighting in Sri Lanka as former President Mahinda Rajapaksa tries to stir discontent…

Though there is no Jallikattu tradition in Sri Lankan Tamil villages, the Tamils of the island nation have enthusiastically joined…

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP for the Jaffna District M.A. Sumanthiran, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, shares his…

Sri Lanka, though a small island state, lies at the tip of the South Asian subcontinent and at the center…

During his trip to formalize the friendship agreement between the City of Markham and district of Mullaitivu, Northern Province Chief…

They could be found on the outskirts of Sirte, Libya, supporting local militia fighters, and in Mukalla, Yemen, backing troops…

The leaders and parliamentarians of the Ilankai Tamil Arusu Katchchi (ITAK), the Eelam People Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), the People…

The Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (CTFRM) officially handed over the Final Report and executive summary on the island-wide…

If the world does not envy the French enough already for their generous vacations, universal health care and fine food…

Another year starts and with it, new hopes and aspirations, a faint desire that sprouts in every human heart that…

The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government’s efforts to give Sri Lanka a new constitution to address the vexed ethnic issue and strengthen democracy…

The acquittal of five persons charged with the murder of a Tamil legislator in Sri Lanka has renewed scepticism over…

As you celebrate Christmas, may you experience true love. Jesus is the reason for the season and the epitome of true love.…

The Sri Lankan and Indian governments are yet to work out the logistics for ferrying 32 Sri Lankan Tamil pilgrims…

“TOGETHER TOWARDS TOMORROW: Sri Lanka Tamil speaking diaspora Conference”, took place  at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of…

Q. How do you analyse the current political situation of the North? Our people are worried today because both the…

Ranil Wickremesinghe, 67, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for a fourth term and leader of the United National Party (UNP),…

Sri Lanka’s internal war which ended in May 2009, had cost the country around US$ 200 billion according to India’s…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sri Lanka’s performance under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) “broadly satisfactory” and praised the…

By Henry Wismayer:                                  …

The United Nations Committee against Torture called on Sri Lanka on 7 December to investigate “routine torture” of detainees by…

By Vishwamithra1984:  “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information,…

On September 5 this year, Sri Lanka was declared malaria-free at the 69th Session of the World Health Organisation (WHO)…

Across a brightly-lit factory floor in a free trade zone in Biyagama, a commercial town on the eastern fringes of…

The simple truth that was ignored by the LTTE leadership and that has to be kept in mind by the…

Back in Sri Lanka after seven months, I find little has changed on our beach. A boutique hotel chain has…

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is on a week-long visit to China on the invitation of the Chinese government…

Northern Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran on Tuesday called for greater dialogue between people of Sri Lanka’s north and south. Urging…

The government needs to formulate a comprehensive programme of work for the North and East. The government needs to work…

An international Human Rights watchdog  censured Sri Lanka for sending a police official in charge of  a torture site at…

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) called upon the UN Committee Against Torture on 14 November to visit Sri Lanka…

Full transcript of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s interview to The Hindu You were in New Delhi recently for…

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on his achievements, challenges, and the importance of a judicial mechanism that has the confidence…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) on behalf of the Sri Lankan Tamils resident overseas has called for the creation of…

National reconciliation, the empowerment of women and Sri Lanka’s application for the General System of Preferences (GSP+) were the main…

Sri Lanka and Nepal may have turned their backs on protracted and bloody conflicts but the fault lines that fuelled…

The UN committee against torture is meeting in Geneva from 7 November to 7 December to review Sri Lanka and…

The World Bank’s latest Sri Lanka Development Update – a half-yearly report on the Sri Lankan economy and its prospects…

The  NGO, Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) published a 50 page report titled ‘Under…

Sri Lanka will sell to a Chinese company 80 percent of a $1.5-billion port in its south, where China has…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has appealed to the people of the province, especially the…

Tamils in Sri Lanka are feeling pessimistic due to lack of progress in reconciliation efforts by President Maithripala Sirisena who…

In my capacity as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues, I conducted an official visit to the Democratic…

More than six years after a rickety vessel with nearly 500 Sri Lankan Tamils aboard arrived off the coast of…

The recent public outburst of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena over being kept in the dark about certain key decisions…

A United States judge has reduced the sentence handed down to three Tamils for allegedly conspiring to buy weapons for…

A group of Sri Lankan Tamils have formed “Siva Senai” (Siva’s Army) to enable Hindus to face “threats” from other…

Investors and traders in Asia indicated on Monday they are mostly increasing their bets on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning…

The Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF) said that it appears that the Tamil people of the North-East are being left out of…

           By: Dharsha Jegatheeswaran and Gajen Mahendra.  On Saturday September 24th, Ezhuka Tamil, organized by the Tamil…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province on Sunday regretted that people in South Sri Lanka are portraying…

By J S Tissainayagam.                                …

Northern Provincial Council (NPC) Chairman C.V.K. Sivagnanam commenting on the Ezhuga Thamizh (Arise Tamils) procession said, there is nothing fresh…

The “Ezhuga Tamizh” rally and general strike which were organized in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province on Saturday, represent a…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, on Saturday gave a clarion call for a people’s…

The European Union’s top court took a step on Thursday toward confirming the removal of Hamas and the Tamil Tigers from…

Former General Officer Commanding (GoC) of 53 Division Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne has urged the government to stop rapid deterioration…

The United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal held discussions with the London-based…

The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances submitting its report on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council in…

The UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) 33rd session began on Tuesday and Sri Lanka is on the agenda. The UN Working…

The clandestine arming of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Premadasa government in Sri Lanka in the…

By Bruce Haigh.                                  …

The UN Chief who was in Sri Lanka for a three-day official visit told journalists in Colombo that the reconciliation…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon today said the Sri Lankan government needs to do much more to redress the “wrongs of…

The Tamil Peoples’ Council (TPC) ,a non-partisan body floated by the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran, is inviting people to …

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has managed to get a separate meeting with the…

The United Nations, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Sri Lankan government have combined to sideline Sri Lanka’s Northern…

M.K. Shivajilingam, Tamil politician and a relation of the slain Tamil Tiger chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran, has said that he will…

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will do his bit to reconcile conflicting interests in Sri Lanka during his three-day…

Tamils continue to face discrimination in Sri Lanka, a UN committee stated recently, and questioned the island-country if Indian Tamils…

One of Scotland’s most senior judges has said Theresa May “acted unreasonably” when she dismissed a former Sri Lankan militant’s…

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) said here on Monday, that there  is an “urgent need” for a…

Chief Minister of North has accused UN Resident Coordinator to Sri Lanka of grossly ignoring war crimes probe and toeing…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) welcomes the passing of the Office of the Missing Persons Bill (OMP) in the Parliament…

In the first days of a new year in January, 2009, Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge sat down to write.…

INTERIM REPORT: The Office on Missing Persons Bill and Issues Concerning the Missing, the Disappeared and the Surrendered This interim report is based on all…

The US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2015, was released on 10 August 2016. The report went on…

 By Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan. Sri Lanka, an island nation situated in the Indian Ocean, is unfortunately not solely known for…

The Chief Minister of the Tamil-majority Northern Province of Sri Lanka, C.V.Wigneswaran, has said that accountability for the war crimes…

If you get a moment, it is worth watching some video of Steve Smith’s press conference after Australia lost at…

At the tip of the teardrop of India, as Sri Lanka is often described, lies the Thalsevana Holiday Resort. From…

India stands for a united, stable and prosperous Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said, emphasising that India’s development…

Sri Lanka’s record-breaking spinner Muttiah Muralidaran has launched a blistering attack on his former bosses after they complained about his…

Following a question raised by Chief Opposition Whip Anura Dissanayake in Parliament regarding the clash at the  University of Jaffna on 16…

The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office said the past 6 months have seen an improved environment for civil society and…

The United States and Sri Lanka appear to have arrived at a compromise on the issue of foreign involvement in…

Sri Lanka is agnostic about what countries it accepts foreign investment from, including China, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said. “There is…

The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice.          The ‘Presidential Commission to Investigate Complaints Regarding Missing…

Participating in a joint press conference, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal said “we continue…

Addressing a UK Parliamentary debate on Sri Lanka on 7 July 2016, the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office…

Sri Lanka’s cabinet on Wednesday has approved to amend laws relating to witness protection in order to allow witnesses of…

Minister Samaraweera speaking to the media on 6 July, after attending the 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in…

The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) welcomes the oral update provided by High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Ra’ad Al…

It’s been seven years since the civil war in Sri Lanka ended. The 30-year conflict fell largely along ethnic lines. President…

The TNA has, welcoming the oral update of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council…

Replying to the oral update of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,on 29 June 2016, Sri Lanka said…

According to an advance copy of the report A/HRC/32/CRP.4 released on 28 June 2016 by the Office of the High…

Addressing the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs in Oslo on 21 June,Foreign Minsiter Mangala Samaraweera said that his government “will and…

As the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meets in Geneva this month and the High Commissioner for Human Rights…

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided to exert pressure on the government, urging it to get it’s act together…

Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Monica Pinto during an oral update at the 32nd Session of…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 14 June that Sri Lanka’s economic outlook is facing risks from the government’s inaction…

The international community must be “tough and supportive” towards Sri Lanka whilst the government continues to undermine “trust and confidence”…

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) chief and Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan on Friday dismissed the argument in certain sections…

The International Truth and Justice Project released a new report on 10 June 2016 ‘Forgotten: Sri Lanka’s  Exiled Victims‘. The report…

It was the time of war and unrest. The only driving force for the Sri Lankan Tamils who decided to…

By Dinesh D. Dodamgoda.                                …

Tamil politicians this week stepped up calls on the Sri Lankan military to release occupied land in the fishing village…

Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform headed by Lal Wijenayake has  submitted its final report to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe…

The national security of Sri Lanka has been further strengthened and it has not weakened in any way, President Maithripala…

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, appears to be planning to break away from the…

Sri Lankan Tamils are taking AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa’s electoral promise to help them secure a “separate Tamil Eelam” with a…

In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, on 19 May the Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF)…

The unexpected chance for lasting peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka that followed President Maithripala Sirisena’s January 2015 election faces…

Around 150 people are feared dead after more than three days of heavy rain triggered two landslides in central Sri…

Sri Lanka’s vibrant Tamil community in Britain has been gently advised to be ready for political compromises if it is…

Addressing a book launch in Colombo on Thursday (May 12), the Chief Minister reiterated that the federal system of government…

The United States is working with Sri Lanka to implement the steps agreed to in the resolution the two countries…

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Monday released a searchable database of more than 200,000 offshore entities that are…

U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Mendez, who was in Sri Lanka along with another Rapporteur on independence of…

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj:                                    …

By: Eelaventhan Manickavasakar.                                  …

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran and three others were issued notice to appear in Supreme Court on May 12,…

Speaking at the signing of the United States-Sri Lanka Trade and Investment Framework Agreement Council on 28 April in New…

Seven years after the end of a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s northern province lags behind the rest of the…

After the end of a long-running civil war and the beginning of a fresh government, Sri Lanka’s market offers both…

The 2015 Human Rights and Democracy Report released by U.K.’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 21 April 2016 said that the Government of…

By Zahran Sikkanther Lebbe.                                …

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry submitted the 2015 Country Report on Human Rights Practices (commonly known as the Human…

Mounting an attack on arch rival and DMK president M Karunanidhi over the fishermen issue, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on…

  Pahan silak se ‘NETHU’ dal wewa wasanthayak se ‘DIWI’ saru wewa, Pium vilak se ‘SUWADA’ sedewa, Me nawa wasare…

Both Sri Lanka and China are deepening reforms, in the process of which we see huge potential for cooperation, Sri…

The Northern Provincial council has proposed that the Northern and Eastern provinces be merged and Muslim-areas therein be declared autonomous…

China and Sri Lanka pledged to further push forward their strategic cooperative partnership and inked a series of documents in…

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe arrives in Beijing on Wednesday on an upbeat note after his government cleared the stalled $1.4…

The Chinese foreign ministry has announced that the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will pay an official visit to…

By Phil Miller:                                  …

By Mirudhula Thambiah:                              With arrangements being…

Speaking on ‘US Policy in South and Central Asia’ at the Center for a New American Security on 28 March, 2016, Assistant…

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today defended his government’s decision to enter into an economic and technology cooperation agreement with…

Having defended a modest total of 142 against the inexperienced Afghanistan, England returns to the Ferozeshah Kotla here looking to…

Google announced that Street View imagery of Sri Lanka is now available on Google Maps. This means people in Sri…

Sri Lanka’s civil war ended seven years ago, but social fault-lines dividing the country have not yet closed. Ethnic Tamils…

Tiger Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran’s deep seated fear of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) being disarmed as a result…

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka has told the CEB by letter dated 15 March 2016 that “It is the…

Someone using official codes stole $100 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Fed over a recent weekend. Authorities…

The Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C.V. Wigneswaran, appealed to the Government to reconsider its plan to build prefabricated houses…

Addressing the UN Human Rights Council 31 session on 10 March 2016 after submitting his annual report, United Nations High…

Suhasini Haidar.                                    …

Sri Lanka will raise its value added tax and reintroduce capital gains tax to break out of a debt trap,…

By Sarah Stodder:                                  …

A Sri Lankan people smuggler who helped organise the boat on which Australian officials allegedly paid crew more than $US30,000…

Devolution within a unitary state will not resolve the National Question. A possible model for reconfiguring the Sri Lankan state…

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) one notch to ‘B+’ from ‘BB-‘.…

Amnesty International in a statement submitted on 25 February to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its 31st  session…

The unexpected election of Maithripala Sirisena in Sri Lanka’s January 2015 polls has resulted in the Barack Obama administration’s fervent…

Amnesty International Report on the state of human rights around the world in the year 2015 -2016 was released on 24…

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today branded as “traitors” those opposed to a proposed trade deal with India, a…

The causeway that links northern Sri Lanka’s mainland to Mannar Island is lined with vast military barracks. They have a…

Northern Province’s Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has raised objections over the renovation of the Palaly airport in the Northern Province,…

The World Bank in its report “Sri Lanka – Ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity : a systematic country diagnostic” states…

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil S Wickremesinghe on Friday made it clear that his government was not averse to international…

UN Special Rapporteur Pablo de Greiff who was in Sri Lanka from 26 January to 1 February 2016 releasing a…

The United Nations will not force Sri Lanka to accept a role for international judges in investigating possible war crimes…

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera speaking on “Indo-Lanka Relations In The 21st Century: A Tryst With Opportunity” at the Sri Lanka-India Society said,…

India has so far, kept powerful Diaspora groups at an arms length, preferring to deal with the main Tamil political…

The world is watching Sri Lanka. Your solutions, if successful, can become the blueprint for future generations, in distant nations,…

The Sri Lankan government will stick to its decision to have the national anthem rendered in Tamil too at the…

Tamil People’s Council Report of the Sub-Committee on Finding a Political Solution to the National Question. Tamil People’s Council (TPC) in…

Responding to a media query on the Sri Lankan President’s statement that no foreign judges will be involved in the…

Counter-terrorism police searched two Melbourne homes on Thursday that are reportedly linked to an Australian man who has posed as a physiotherapist working in…

Just a little over a year ago, voters in Sri Lanka rallied to elect a new president, with high hopes…

Our return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields has managed to coincide with two major developments – the first is the…

By Joseph E. Stiglitz.                                …

It was a Sunday afternoon, and the 64-year-old Maithripala Sirisena was in no mood to relax. He had a series…

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday urged participants at a forum in Davos in Switzerland to base their operations in Sri…