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...
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“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...
Pradeep Jayawardene, grandson of the late President of Sri Lanka, J R Jayawardene is set to enter politics.
Jayawardene is expected to announce his move to...
The Finance Ministers of India and Sri Lanka met in Washington and discussed bilateral issues.
Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera met Indian Finance Minister...
Former Sri Lanka president and Kurunegala district MP Mahinda Rajapaksa urged the government to abandon what he described as ‘the destructive proposal’ for...
President Maithripala Sirisena confronted protesters in Jaffna who were demanding that Tamil political prisoners be released.
The protesters staged a black...