Sri Lanka is urging the U.S. to avoid letting human rights concerns dominate the relationship between the countries five years after the end of a civil war that killed as many as 40,000 civilians.

By Malinda Senevirathne

The Government has taken some tentative steps to keep NGOs in check.  Although the big-names in the NGO fraternity have howled in protest, a careful reading of the directive issued by the NGO Secretariat clearly indicates …

India’s decision to stick to the previous UPA regime’s stand not to support the inquiry by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into Sri Lanka’s ‘war crimes’ in the last days of the civil war in 2009 is shocking, …

The TNA will submit affidavits to the Supreme Court affirming that they stand for a unitary Sri Lanka.

Counsel, K. Kanag Ishwaran P.C. and M. A. Sumanthiran, who appeared for TNA office bearers made respondents in several fundamental rights violation …

(Courtesy for Daily News)

The Traitors of Sri Lanka

The egg-shaped face of the American Ambassadress, Michele J. Sison, does not mean that she is an egg-head. A closer look will reveal that her elongated oval face resembles more of …

Reconciliation in Sri Lanka discussed

On his third visit to India this year and his first under the Narendra Modi government, Sri Lankan foreign minister G.L. Peiris, discussed with External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, the measures Sri Lanka was taking …

Israeli warplanes kept up deadly raids on Gaza on Friday. With the violence growing worse, US President Barack Obama in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was willing to broker a ceasefire.

Obama said …

Andrew Bolt

By DINOO KELLEGHAN

IT is a crying shame that a country that has dragged itself up by the bootstraps from twin ruthless Marxist and ethnic insurgencies that devastated its economy and killed almost 200,000 people during the past 45 years …