Thousands of troops battled Monday to get relief supplies to nearly half a million people displaced by the island’s worst flooding for 14 years, which has...
Archive - May 2017
People of Iranaitivu, which comes under the Poonery Divisional Secretariat Division, staged an attention drawn struggle urging their resettlement at their...
The Government has come under fire from civil society groups and Muslims for its failure to act fast in checking attacks on mosques and shops owned by Muslims...
Following a request from the Sri Lankan Government on Friday, India dispatched two ships with relief material and sent special medical teams.
“The [Indian]...
It is reported that more than 300 Buddhist monks belonging to the South based organization visit Jaffna to get engaged in the religious rituals which are going...
A group of fishermen who had been reported missing off Batticaloa returned home late this evening.
The Navy had earlier launched an operation to locate 19...
Sri Lanka’s police had come under criticism from opposition parliamentarians and right activists for failing to take action against attacks on Muslim...
If the Muslims of this country are to lose their patience the country will face dire consequences, Eastern Provincial Council member, Shibly Farooq said.
He...
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which monitors implementation by States of one of the main international human rights treaties, the...
People of Kirushnapuram village in Killinochchi have expressed their anxiety that Lord Buddha has been occupying the land belonging to the thirty years- old...