UN Committee accused of being biased
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has been accused of being biased by the Government. Cabinet spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that...
SL court verdict: Pro-Tamil groups protest in Chennai
Minutes after a Sri Lankan court sentenced five Indian fishermen to death on charges of smuggling drugs, fishermen from Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu went...
Legal action against Provincial Councillors seeking “Genocide Probe” dismissed
The Court of Appeal today dismissed a writ application filed by a resident of Nugegoda who sought a writ of mandamus order directing the Inspector...
Concerns raised by UN Human Rights Committee
The UN Human Rights Committee’s concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Sri Lanka, released on 30 October 2014, outlined several concerns on the...
Landslide horror
At least Ten people have died and over 150 have been reported missing at a Sri Lankan tea plantation after a monsoon-triggered mudslide buried scores of...
Elections Commissioner not fully independent.
Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma says the Office of the Commissioner of Elections is not fully independent. Addressing the media in Colombo today, Sharma also said that...
The fraught future of democracy in Sri Lanka
Even as the Sri Lankan nation inches closer towards national elections scheduled for 2015 – almost two years before the due date – the prospects...
Reasons for extending LTTE ban not valid: Vaiko
MDMK general secretary Vaiko said on Monday that the reasons cited for extending the ban on the LTTE were not valid. He was making a...
SLMC to decide on Friday on Presidential Polls
SLMC will meet on Friday to decide on their stand in regard to the forthcoming Presidential Elections. "We are currently gathering comments from the people. On...
Tamil Nadu fishermen call off fast
Twenty-four fishermen from Tamil Nadu today called off their hunger strike in a prison in Sri Lanka after the island nation's officials assured a fishermen's...
Most Tamil refugees want to remain in India’
A survey by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, among the one-lakh-odd Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India has found that 67 per...
Google releases free satellite images of Nagarkovil to monitor resettlement
Google has made satellite images of Nagarkovil available for free in order to monitor progress on resettlement, as part of an initiative to release data...
UN Counter-Terrorism Committee in Sri Lanka
Jean-Paul Laborde the Executive Directorate of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee is scheduled to arrive in the country today for a 3 day official visit. The...
One arrested by for distributing blank UN inquiry forms
Acting on information received from the public, the police have arrested a person tasked by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to collect signatures on blank...
UK Studying EU Judgement
The British Government says it is studying the recent EU Court ruling on the LTTE sanctions while the rebels continue to remain banned in Britain....