Attorney-at-law N. Dharshana Weraduwa of Athurugiriya has filed a petition in the Supreme Court requesting the court to direct respondents Sagala Ratnayake, the Minister of Law and Order, Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, the Minister of Buddha Sasana and Justice and Reginald …

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Malaysia, Ibrahim Anzar and the Embassy’s Second Secretary were subject to an attack near the Kuala Lampur Airport by Tamil thugs and LTTE Tamil terrorists. A group of LTTE Tamil terrorists and Tamil thugs, who were …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Wartime Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday alleged that the outgoing UNSG Ban Ki-moon had caused considerable damage to Sri Lanka ahead of forthcoming judicial inquiry into war crimes allegations by comparing the offensive …

The Members of Parliament representing the SLFP in the Joint Opposition, JO have submitted to the Steering Committee headed by the Prime Minister, their proposals for the proposed new Constitution, which inter alia includes a proposal to remove the existing …

You did not treat all conflicts with equal concern

Dear Mr. Secretary General

Welcome to Sri Lanka.

We Sri Lankans are indeed gratified for your decision to visit our island for the second time during your term of office, drawing …

A Buddhist shrine room erected within the premises of Special Task Force camp in Kanagarayankulam, Mankulam in the North had been vandalised on Monday 29, the Police said.

The camp, established after the war victory in 2009, does not exist …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

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Outgoing 72-year-old United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will fly to Palaly air base in the Jaffna peninsula on Friday (Sept. 2, 2016).

The former South Korean foreign minister’s visit to Jaffna takes …

Twenty (20) strong Buddhist Organizations in Sri Lanka under the common banner of Joint Committee of Buddhist Organizations has strongly condemned the most controversial Parliament Bill; Office of Missing Person passed in the history of Sri Lanka. The OMP Bill …

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Even anyone familiar with parliamentary process in this land of lotus eaters would wonder how and why this government bungles when it comes to passing new laws.  We are said to have a unity or national …