The DMK has issued a notice seeking a discussion, under Rule 193 in the Lok Sabha, against the human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan defence forces against Tamils during the civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Off went Cameron to China in a huff thinking that Britain’s help was needed to prop up rising China’s economy. Lesson Cameron learnt humiliatingly was China is a great power Britain now is not. It was certainly no meeting of equals. If Cameron huffed and puffed in Colombo he […]

(Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee retreated from a more than five-week high in early trade on Thursday due to importer dollar demand, dealers said, a day after short-term interest rates fell to more than two-year lows. The island nation’s 91-day and 182-day treasury bill yields fell to their lowest in more than two years […]

A train engine, which was at the Demtagoda Railway Yard had automatically started at around 1.45 am today and preceded without a driver before it was stopped between Ratmalana and Mt. Lavinia, railway authorities said. […]

The mother of the deceased underworld kingpin, Chintaka Wasantha, alias Ketayam Chinthaka, who died during a confrontation with the officers of the Special Task Force (STF), had requested the government to meet the costs of her son’s funeral. […]

Sri Lanka has described as “unfortunate” Manmohan Singh’s absence from last month’s Commonwealth meeting in Colombo and denied information about a visit by the Prime Minister announced by finance minister P. Chidambaram last week. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – There is one reason and one reason alone that explains why the United National Party will never lead Sri Lanka and no one needs to be splitting hairs or having conventions to find out. UNP will not win elections because it does not command the Buddhist vote. The tragedy is […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Why have 32 countries banned the LTTE and continue to do so even after its demise in 2009? Obviously its intelligence feels there is sufficient threat to maintain the ban overseas. A ban becomes meaningful only if these countries enforce local laws to ensure fundraising for terror does not […]

The office of the Ministry of Law and Order which was established by President on August 16 was officially declared open today. The Department of Police and the Special Task Force come under the purview of the Ministry. […]

(Reuters) – China was Sri Lanka’s top commercial lender and foreign direct investor in the first nine months of 2013, government data showed on Tuesday, as the island nation turns away from Western nations critical of its human rights record. China committed $517.9 million in commercial loans, around 39 percent of the $1.32 billion total […]

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal. (File photo) The U.S. has warned Sri Lanka that the patience of the international community could wear thin if the Rajapaksa Government does not take steps to address the issue of human rights, accountability and reconciliation process. […]

A $400 million Sri Lankan resort and casino complex planned by Australia’s Crown Resorts Ltd faces additional delays and is unlikely to be approved before the end of the year, a top government official said. […]

Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne told Parliament that he had ordered his staff and secretaries not to issue letters, on his behalf, hereafter. […]

Sri Lanka ranked 91st place on Transparency International’s corruption perception index for 2013, according to a report released on Tuesday. […]

JVP Parliamentary Group leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, yesterday in Parliament, demanded to know from the government what action had been taken with regard to a person who had sent a request to the Customs, from the Prime Minister’s office, to release a container load of heroin imported to the country from Karachi. […]