Reaffirming India’s support for the Sri Lankan Tamils, Congress president and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said New Delhi would c...

The people from Jaffna face interference by the troops in their family affairs, as such the fear-psychosis which usually prevails among the ...

Urgent Amnesty International Action/ Student fears for safety after deaths threats A Sri Lankan student who complained that his law school...

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has instructed residents of Vellaveli in Batticaloa district to register with the village level officers (Grama Niladh...

 The London based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has expressed concern over the lack of proper investigation into the abduction...

By Sandun A. Jayasekera Changes in legislations are on the cards whereby the Elections Commission would be vested with the authority to fi...

Police in Sri Lanka say that they have arrested four people suspected on an attack following a the protest threat by a cabinet minister. S...

By Shamindra Ferdinando In the run-up to the imminent release of a controversial UN report on alleged ‘war crimes’ committed during Eelam ...

According to the Police Department there had been over 50 disappearances in Jaffna District during March 2022. 12 bodies who were disappar...

By Tisaranee Gunasekara “….doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance...

The appointment of a convicted criminal to the Board of Commercial Bank by the government has raised eye brows among senior bankers in the c...

"If you remember, when you came into power you said, about opening up the economy, that you saw no harm in letting the robber barons co...

By Mel Gunasekera COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's appearance in Saturday's cricket World Cup final offers a rare if fleeting moment of unity...

While the Tamil Youth Organisation in UK was engaged in an awareness campaign for boycotting genocidal Sri Lanka in international sports, a ...

Thousands of occupying troops of Sri Lanka Army rounded up the village Uduththu’rai in Vadamaraadchi East and are engaged in search operatio...

By Azra Ameen Around 1,299 schools or nearly one million school children and around 200,000 families in the island do not have access to t...

These days there is considerable discussion about investigations into some NGOs in Sri Lanka. The president himself is talking in public abo...

India has instructed Sri Lanka’s main Tamil political party, The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to go beyond the 13th Amendment when they hol...

W e wish to question what human rights protection experience and credentials they bring to the Human Rights Commission. In short, the crit...

KILINOCHCHI, 23 February 2011 (IRIN) - Former female combatants in northern Sri Lanka face a tough time returning to civilian life, with few...

By Wilson Gnanadass TNA parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran said the mandate the party has obtained from the people is to find an immedia...

Alan Keenan    1. The need for an international investigation The International Crisis Group, like others concerned with a sustainable ...

United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Colombo district Parliamentarian Duminda Silva was discharged by High Court Judge Sunil Rajapakse on...

By Manopriya Gunasekara Questioning the Attorney General’s withdrawal of murder charges and acquitting the accused in the Nampamunuwa mur...

By Chris Kamalendran The Tamil National Alliance wants the Government to grant the Northern Province police powers besides the right to m...