Month: July 2017

The historic Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord that mooted a permanent solution to the decades-long-ethnic conflict in the island nation was signed on July 29, thirty...

The International Movement of Tamil Culture (Sri Lanka chapter) in association with the University of Jaffna will be holding a two-day special conference on ‘Challenges...

The International Crisis Group in a report released on 28 July says the promises by the Sri Lanka Government to the UNHRC in 2015 have...

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 shipping route, has been signed...

The Sino-Sri Lankan deal over a controversial deep water port in Hambantota in south Sri Lanka, which has been hanging fire since January 2015, will...

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has spoken highly of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, expressing the hope that the government would like to...

Hailing the European Union Court of Justice verdict lifting the ban on LTTE, leaders including PMK founder S. Ramadoss and MDMK general secretary Vaiko, besides...

The European Union's top court on Wednesday annulled a court ruling to remove the Hamas militant group from the EU terror blacklist. The court, however,...

In a letter to the President, the leader of the TNA Mr. R. Sampanthan had said that the the issue of missing persons is a serious...

After many hiccups and protracted negotiations, China and Sri Lanka have reached an agreement on the US$ 1.4 billion Hambantota port in southern Sri Lanka....

Speaking at a book launch last week, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the draft of Sri Lanka’s new Constitution would be ready by January 2018,...

The 2016 Foreign & Commonwealth Office report on Human Rights and Democracy was presented to the UK Parliament on 20 July 2017 by the Secretary...