China will extend increasing support to infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka and will also back the country's efforts to promote reconci...

Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa's remarks on the alleged war crimes rocked the Tamil Nadu assembly on Thursday, with Chi...

Yohan Perera The government admitted yesterday for the first time that there had been abductions and killings in the North and the East dur...

Negotiating a political arrangement for post-conflict Sri Lanka can be considered daunting for Sri Lanka as it is for the US to resolve its ...

Children in Jaffna, despite threats to their lives, are collecting pieces of iron and other metals to be sold to quench unbearable hunger pa...

Charles Haviland Weeping parents have been demonstrating in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, asking what has become of close family members...

Priyamvatha/Rajesh Sundaram   The UN says over 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed during the last stages of the 30-year civil war in Sri La...

Shihar Aneez  (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday started a four-day state visit to China, with support agai...

  “We support a full and credible and independent investigation of alleged violations of international human rights and law and internationa...

Kalana Senaratne The recently concluded Local Government (LG) elections provided evidence, if evidence was needed, of a divided polity. Ami...

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu  The collapse of the Government –TNA talks has an air of inevitability about it for no other reason than the cent...

 D.B.S. Jeyaraj Sri Lanka Tamil issue likely to be raised in India’s Upper&Lower houses of Parliament&Tamil Nadu legislative assemb...

Professor Ratnajeevan Hoole, the unsuccessful candidate for the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna supported by a section o...

Major General Shavendra Silva, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, tells Daily Mirror that despite repeated attempts by p...

 * Jobs for Lankan youth in South Korea  Think tank says it was alarmed to note a majority of educated youth were willing to go to South Ko...

The EC has decided to reduce the number of seats allocated to Jaffna district The biggest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka has objected t...

Millions affected by violence against health-care personnel and facilities 10-08-2011 News Release 11/191 Geneva (ICRC) – Assaults on heal...

PRES S RELEASE/9th August 2011 Weeks after local government elections in Jaffna we remain concerned about the state of democracy, protectio...

The United States said Tuesday that if Sri Lanka does not “quickly” investigate “in a way that meets international standards” allegations o...

In a world exclusive report aired Tuesday, India’s Headlines Today (HT) television broadcast eyewitness accounts of mass slaughter, the use...

Sara Nics   “If you are not with the government, you become an instant traitor to the country. They said I should be killed; very clearly, ...

Priyamvatha  | Vanni (Sri Lanka) The closing stages of the Sri Lankan civil war were a story of extreme brutality against civilians b...

An interview with M.A. Sumanthiran MP The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) last week gave an ultimatum to the government to respond to its set...

''Whether committed by the US or Sri Lanka, by government officials or separatist groups, serious human rights abuses should be in...

Dr U. Pethiyagoda It is claimed that this goose which has laid golden eggs for more than one and a half centuries, is currently the third l...