Thousands of Tamils demonstrated in Geneva on Monday to protest Sri Lanka’s rejection of calls for an international probe into alleged war crimes at the end of its civil war. […]

No force can change the Government as long as the people of the country place their faith and confidence in us, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. […]

The long awaited National Drug Policy, which was continuously obstructed by the multi national drug mafia, will be handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa today by the Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena.  The new policy will put an end to operations of the drug mafia in the country. […]

David Cameron’s office says decision taken after Sri Lanka failed to conduct its own inquiry into civil war Britain is to join the US and three other countries in pushing for a full international inquiry into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka after the government there failed to satisfy international calls for a such an […]

Hambantota now has all the infrastructure, but what is lacking currently is a Parliament, Disaster Management Minister, Mahinda Amaraweera, said. […]

A billion dollar funded Christian Evangelical effort to harvest souls in India with the fullest support of the ‘secular’ Governments of USA and EU and right wing Christian missionary organizations in the West which is in full swing, has alarmed the public throughout India. Social media websites, newspapers, political affairs analysts and the like in […]

The United Nations was formed by 51 states in 1945 following World War 2 that led to 55 million deaths. UN comprises 193 member states, 45,000 employees and 35 associated organizations. However, this so called ‘peacekeeping’ body has failed miserably in keeping peace around the world. 83 different conflicts around the world proves this and […]

The UNP yesterday accused the government of censoring credible news sources available on the internet and demanded that internet service providers unofficially blocking some websites revealed on what official instructions or court order an illegal censorship is being imposed. […]

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, has said “the draft resolution on Sri Lanka deposited with the Human Rights Council by a core group comprising – the USA, UK, Mauritius, Montenegro and Macedonia, violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka, is highly intrusive in nature and is in breach […]

There are many wanting to know why a country enjoying 4 years of post-terrorist peace with people and even former cadres getting on with their lives should be hounded by the likes of Navi Pillay, the US, UK and even India bringing Resolution after Resolution with non-associated additions with each new Resolution while no such […]

A new luxury air-conditioned train service from Colombo Fort to the newly commissioned Palai Railway Station will set off at 2.45 this afternoon, the Railway Department said. […]

Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris has said that the highly prejudiced actions by sections of the international community and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to give disproportionate attention to Sri Lanka had only made the separatist diaspora Tamil elements and their proxies in the north more intransigent, […]

Customs officials seized 36kg of heroin concealed within a container which was declared to contain iron materials. […]