Head of the Legal Studies Department, the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), Yasodhara Kadiragamatambi, was stabbed by a law student at noon yesterday while she was seated at the reception of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. […]

(Reuters) – The Sri Lankan government’s proposed code of ethics for the media is a threat to free speech, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The code calls for censorship of material affecting foreign relations, promoting “anti-national” attitudes or undermining the integrity of the executive, judiciary and legislative branches of the state. […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told a delegation of Sri Lanka Tamil MPs that he was “dismayed” by reports suggesting that Colombo planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment on devolution of powers to provinces ahead of polls to the Northern Provincial Council. […]

No political party or politician has the right to mete out punishment to any member of the teaching profession, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said. The minister was addressing the ‘Arts Competition 2012’ certificate awarding ceremony at Isurupaya yesterday. “No political party can claim a justifiable right to mete out punishment to teachers, and on the […]

DIG Vass Gunawardena has been interdicted with immediate effect, police Spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardenaa said a short while ago. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – There are plenty of people in competition with the Government claiming to know what is best for the people of Sri Lanka. So let us work upon the premise that their work is solely to ensure the masses, especially the downtrodden and poor are given the best of State […]

The female student of Colombo University who jumped off the fifth floor of a university building died while receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital. […]

The SLFP Central Committee yesterday decided to sack the UPFA North-Western Provincial Councillor Ananda Sarath Kumara for allegedly humiliating a lady teacher by ordering her to kneel in the presence of students and teachers because she had asked his daughter not wear a short uniform to school. […]

  – by Shenali D. Waduge – They say you cannot fool the people all of the time and the recent announcement by a Minister who thinks he is doing a favor to those he closely associates with is like a blessing in disguise for the real victims of hate speech and the likelihood that […]

FILE PHOTO Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha has asked that greater attention be paid in the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy, to the role of terrorist support networks that take the form of front organizations, the challenge posed by the abuse of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the propriety of the […]

Colombo District MP Duminda Silva is due to attend Parliamentary sessions tomorrow (18) after 18 months of leave taken with the approval of Parliament, according to government sources. […]

North Western Provincial Council member Ananda Sarath Kumara had allegedly verbally assaulted and forced a female teacher to kneel before him yesterday, for advising his daughter on a disciplinary matter. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – If the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and possibly all other military interventions using a bogey called “humanitarian intervention” are all a sham we need to empathize with the US military personnel who are victims of the lie and sent to combat zones on a fictitious story that […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was in Kilinochchi today, said elections to the Northern Provincial Council will take place as planned, and that the public will have the opportunity and the independence to select the representatives who will bring further development to the region. […]