Ranga Jayasuriya  Early this week, the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, giving evidence in a...

The Secretariat for Muslims in collaboration with the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka has been documenting the harassment, intimidation and viol...

The intelligence wing of the occupying Sri Lankan military and the ‘Terrorist’ Investigation Department (TID) operatives in the North intimi...

We have implemented 85 per cent of the LLRC's recommendations By PTI - COLOMBO The opposition today blamed the Sri Lankan gover...

Young teenagers are at greater risk Photo: Amantha Perera/IRIN  Sri Lankan authorities have expressed concern over an increa...

Farhan Haq, the Acting Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that theThe United Nations (UN) has reitera...

For some time now it has been quite clear to economists that assessments of economic performance cannot be solely focused on overall incom...

The Government says it will take at least a year to implement a bulk of the recommendations of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commis...

Lakshman KiriellaThe UNP today said that there were human rights violations committed by the Government and they need to now set things righ...

Darisha Bastians the Government is with UNHRC Sessions in March, staving off an international war crimes inquiry may prove the least of i...

you cannot miss these bill boards One of the very first things passengers getting off planes at Colombo’s Bandaranaike Interna...

Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has refused a visa request for a U.S. State Department official, the U.S. Embassy said on Tuesday, aft...

Sri Lankan government minister GL Peiris has tried to justify a wave of attacks on churches and mosques, claiming that these were simply com...

GENEVA — Senior Sri Lankan government officials and military officers may bear criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against hum...

Sri Lanka’s battle theatre was sealed off from the outside world by the Sri Lankan Government.  International journalists were una...

Returnee woman with two grandchildren As of February 2014, four-and-a-half years after the end of Sri Lanka’s internal arm...

12-year old son of a Tamil rebel leader Tom Allard  - National Affairs Editor Picture of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year old son o...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today slammed attempts to bring a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next mon...

PR: Do you feel that an international investigation into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka in 2009 is justified and what do you make of th...

Catherine Russell In what is likely to be treated as a major diplomatic insult, the Sri Lankan Government has refused a visa to US Ambas...

J Jayalalithaa Demanding that India move a seperate resolution against Sri Lanka in a UN body next month, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Ja...

Washington is once again trying to put pressure on the government of Sri Lanka to commission a credible independent investigation of crimes ...

''The past two years witnessed a negative turn in good governance of the country. The situation which had led to the impeachment of...

Ravi Ladduwahetty Human Rights Commissioner, Dr. Prathibha Mahanamahewa, yesterday debunked the statements made by the visiting US Assistant...

G.L NishaThe Government, in a strongly worded statement, has slammed the United States and the concluding remarks made by US Assistant Secre...