The Government of the United States has imposed travel restrictions on the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army and Acting Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva and his immediate family members, which is an extremely unfortunate decision especially …

Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist political party TNA had welcomed the politically motivated and geopolitics based United States’ sanctions against Sri Lankan Army Chief Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva for the so called excesses committed under his watch during the last phase of …

By Keerthi Warnakulasooriya
(Courtesy of The Island)

43 වැනි ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සැසිවාරය පෙබරවාරි 24 දා ආරම්භ වේ. මාර්තු 20 දා දක්වා පැවැත්වෙන මෙම සැසිවාරයේදී ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට අදාළ වාර්තා 2 ක් ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත්වන්නේ මාර්තු මස මැදභාගයේදීය. එහෙත් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව ඊට …

(Courtesy of Ada Derana)

Defence Secretary Major General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne has pledged not to leave room for terrorism to destabilise the country’s peace in future under the current leadership.

He said peace was earned through immense sacrifices made by …

National Joint Commission – NJC has issued a strongly worded press release on the one-sided UNHRC Resolution 30/1 issued on Sri Lanka. The NJC stated in the press release that Sri Lanka is the only county in the United Nations …

Sri Lanka has told the United Nations that as a sovereign State it will take its own path to reconciliation.

Speaking at the Security Council Open Debate on ‘Peace building and sustaining peace: Transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict situations’ …

Outraged commentators warned Wednesday that revelations the CIA and Germany’s intelligence service had for decades used a Swiss encryption company for spying had seriously damaged Switzerland’s cherished reputation for neutrality.

Critics voiced particular concern that Bern may have been at …

The Jaffna police have arrested four Jaffna undergraduates following a spate of complaints they forced newcomers to perform in ‘sex videos.’

The police are looking for other students.

The police stepped up investigations after the Higher Education Ministry brought the …

Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist political party  Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has urged the visiting EU delegation to pressure President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government to fully implement the accountability resolution co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government in Oct. 2015.

The resolution called for hybrid …

(Courtesy of the Lankaweb)

The biggest falsehood some of our politicians and some historians have been spreading over the past 70 years is that Sri Lanka won her independence from Britain in a ‘bloodless struggle’.

The hard fact is that …