(Courtesy of The Island)

Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena must have been diplomatically polite when he conveyed the Sri Lanka Government’s displeasure and objections with regard to the travel ban to the United States imposed on the Sri Lanka Army …

ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාව සමග එකඟතාවකට පැමිණි 30/1 සහ 40/1 යන යෝජනා දෙකෙන් වහාම ඉවත්වීමට රජය තීරණය කර තිබේ. ඒ සඳහා විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ යෝජනාවට කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල අනුමැතිය හිමිව තිබේ. ඒ අනුව රජය …

The Government of the United States has imposed travel restrictions on Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva, the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army and Acting Chief of Defence Staff, and his immediate family members based on the geopolitics under the pretext …

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 …