Anandasangaree in TNA list
- සිංහල - Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) leader V. Anandasangaree has been included in the list of candidates of the Tamil...
Investigations commenced on disappearances
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances met in New York to review under their urgent action procedure, 17 reported...
SL ready to share its experience as best practices on humanitarian effectiveness with other countries
Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha has said “the approaches used in post-tsunami and post-conflict Sri Lanka, with suitable...
British Parliamentary team due in Colombo
- සිංහල - A team of British Parliamentarians are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on a fact-finding mission. Eleanor Laing MP...
TNA finalises seat allocations
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has finalised the seat allocations for the coalition members of the alliance in the north for the provincial...
Sri Lanka’s Road to Reconciliation
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: R. Cheran: Sri Lanka's Road to Reconciliation. R. Cheran gives Steve Paikin his view of the "Lessons Learnt...
Sri Lankan issue being used by TN for political gains, says Justice CV Wigneswaran
Justice CV Wigneswaran, chief ministerial nominee of Sri Lanka's oppositional Tamil National Alliance (TNA) for the forthcoming northern province elections spoke to...
Mosque in Mahiyangana Closed for Prayers After Uva Provincial Minister Anura Vithanagamage of UPFA Threatens Trustee
Uva Province Minister, Anura Vithanagamage, has allegedly threatened the trustee of the Mahiyangana Mosque against holding Jumma prayers, Minister Rauff Hakeem, Leader...
Britain continues to raise concerns
Britain has issued a virtual ultimatum to the government saying if there is insufficient progress on Sri Lanka’s own commitments, or deterioration in...
Sri Lankan Rupee falls
A continuously weakening rupee to the US dollar may lead to a price spiral in essential food items, the trade warned yesterday. However,...
Malaysian NGO to be questioned
A Malaysian NGO is to be questioned next week over its screening of the film “No Fire Zone, the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”...
Sri Lanka beat South Africa in first one-dayer
Kumar Sangakkara celebrated his 350th one day international appearance with a career-best 169 as Sri Lanka crushed South Africa by 180 runs...
Obama nominates Indian-American Nisha Biswal as assistant secretary of state for South Asia
In a striking development, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Nisha Desai Biswal an accomplished Indian-American administrator, to head the South Asia bureau...
Detainees riot in Nauru, Lankans involved
Calm has been restored to the Nauru detention centre after the building was burned to the ground in a night of rioting and...
We don’t need CEPA any longer: Basil Rajapaksa
Sri Lanka will not need the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India any longer, as both countries had moved on, said Economic...