By Ira de Silva from Canada

According to news reports, there seems to be a difference of opinion on whether investigations into the final phase of the Eelam war in 2009 will be done by competent local investigators and judges …

An event should be held on 31^st January 2016 in remembrance of victims who died and were injured in the attack against the Central Bank of Sri Lanka by LTTE Tamil terrorists on January 31, 1996.

41 members of …

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By Kamalika pieris 

The 13th Amendment gave the Provincial Councils rights over “Land, land tenure, transfer and alienation of land, land use, land settlement and land improvement.” It specifically says “Land shall be a Provincial Council …

Janaka Perera

The first ever attempt to overthrow a legally elected government in post independence Sri Lanka was made 54 years ago on January 27.   The conspirators were a group of military and police officers that belonged to a …

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E

“That said, you really cannot ‘ban’ a word. You can indulge in ‘hate’ discourse with specific actions, ideological positions and intentions stated but when it comes to prohibition you are on shaky ground. If Jehan were to read …

The spokesman of the common opposition Dullas  Alahapperuma yesterday said President Maithripala Sirisena, the Free Media Movement, Western countries and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party should reveal their position over the statement made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in …

By Ranjith Soysa

The Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe of Batalanda fame launched a bitter campaign in the Parliament against the journalists claiming that their hands are not clean. The main thrust of his speech was that the journalists are not …

The editorial by the New York Time on 28^th January 2016 in the head line of “Time for Justice in Sri Lanka”reflects a poor and only a superficial understanding of issues pertaining to Sri Lanka and shows …

The Missing Persons Commission, also known as the ‘Paranagama Commission’ says the figure of 40,000 civilians killed during the final weeks of the war is a myth.

A statement signed by the Chairman of the Commission, former justice Maxwell Paranagama, …