The fight to keep a Sri Lankan Tamil family who entered illegally in Australia has started in Melbourne with government lawyers filing last-minute evidence.

Sri Lankan Tamil couple Priya and Nades Murugappan and their Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa, aged …

Sri Lanka said its war effort did not result in Hollywood movies, but was proud of its security forces who completed the task assigned to them by a democratically elected administration and freed people from ruthless LTTE Tamil terrorism.

“Just …

Technical discrepancies over pension payments for disabled war veterans, families and widows to be resolved

Defence Ministry will submit a new Cabinet paper to solve existing issues related to pensions and allowances to disabled persons of armed forces and the …

Sainthamaruthu is the Sri Lankan equal of Kandahar of Afghanistan and Idlib of Syria – the Sunni extremist capital. It was the safe haven of Zaharan and his band of terrorists and his birth place. Creating a separate Urban Council …

(Courtesy for The Island)

The government said yesterday that it would seek the support of other countries to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution  on Sri Lanka, which was co-sponsored by the previous Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration.

While …

By Ishara Gamage
(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

Implementing the already-finalised Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) agreement will pose a challenge to Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and legal system, unless its terms are amended to Sri Lanka’s requirements, according to the preliminary report …

(Courtesy of Economy next)

ECONOMYNEXT – Confirming a government decision to withdraw from cosponsorship of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution 30/1, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa drew a line between what he called the patriotic camp and “born …

(Courtesy of Divaina)

වර්ෂ 1865 පෙබරවාරි මස 08 වන දින ලාංකේය ආගමික ඉතිහාසයේ ස්වර්ණමය කඩයිමක් සනිටුහන් කළ දිනයකි. එදා සිට අද දක්වා ලාංකේය ගමන් මෙඟ් දේශපාලන, ආගමික, සාමාජීය මෙන්ම අධ්‍යාපනික දිශානතිය තීරණය කිරීමෙහිලා සුවිසල් බලපෑමක් සිදු කළ දිනය වූයේ එදින …

මෙරට ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයට සම්බන්ධ පූජ්‍ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමි, ගුණදාස  අමරසේකර මහතා, ඇඳගම මහත්ම මහත්මීන්, කණිෂ්ක විතාරන මහතා  නෙම්සිරි ජයතිලක මහතා අනුරුද්ධ හේරත් මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිසක් පසුගිය දා හමුවී එක්ස්ත් ජාතින්ගේ සංවිධානයේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ 30/1 යෝජනාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ යුත්තේ කුමක් …

By Marlise Simons and Megan Specia
(Courtesy of New York Times)

The United States has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor because of her attempts to investigate allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, including any that …