The main sects of Sri Lanka’s Maha Sangha have once again demonstrated their strident opposition to constitutional reforms, this time going one step further...
Archive - October 2017
A suspect charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), whose case was transferred from the Trincomalee High Court to Colombo by the Attorney General...
The joint opposition says the Government does not have a mandate for a new Constitution.
Joint opposition member, Professor G.L Peiris said that President...
The Special Task Force (STF) found 30 hand grenades, 12 claymore bombs and six 60mm mortars in an abandoned well near the Kachchai Post Office in Kodikamam...
Eight years after the war ended there is persistent poverty in the north and east while incomes remain far lower than in other parts of the country, the latest...
“In any case the purpose is not really to indict the past, but to summon it to the attention of a suicidal, anachronistic present.”
Soon after the outbreak...
The President had assured Sivajilingam that once the Attorney General and the Justice Minister, who are current;y overseas, return to the island next week, he...
The Sri Lankan constitution making process is likely to come to a grinding halt as the representatives of the Malwatte and Asgiriya chapters of the Buddhist...
The issue over Tamil political prisoners was raised in Parliament today as Jaffna university students began a hunger strike over the issue.
Tamil National...
Elections to the Sri Lankan local bodies and Provincial Councils are due in 2018. But President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe...