The Sri Lankan government says that those talking of moral obligation on the part of the US and its allies to intervene in Sri Lank have conveniently turned a blind eye to the position taken by the US at the first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the world’s solitary superpower  before the UN Human Rights […]

Two Nuwara-Eliya District Parliamentarians K. Sri Ranga and P. Digambaram representing the National Workers Union (NWU) are contemplating leaving the Government ranks if their discussions with President Mahinda Rajapaksa within the next few days does not bear any fruit. […]

Sri Lanka has officially released a report on the deaths occurred in the  Northern Province during the last four years of the war that ended in May 2009. […]

The Sri Lankan delegation engaged in a lobbying spree against the proposed resolution against Sri Lanka said today that they had highly successful rounds of talks with the representatives of different countries yesterday. […]

Tomorrow will be D-Day in Geneva with the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka due to come up for discussion at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council. This will be the second time that Sri Lanka has had to face a vote at the UN-HRC. In May 2009, the Western powers […]

The government has made several counter programmes to defeat the attempts  by the Opposition and certain NGOs at the instigation and financing of the international forces to create unrest in the country and thereby give a boost to the attempts being made by certain western countries, the resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations […]

Two days ahead of the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) here in Geneva, Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay raised the issue that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) had not dealt with the accountability issues raised in the UN panel report dubbed by the government as the Darusman report. […]

Amid attempts by the United States to bring a resolution against Sri Lanka at the 19th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions, the government said it would prefer the matter being taken up at the Universal Periodic Review in October this year. […]

Christchurch police have launched a homicide inquiry into the death of a 28-year-old Sri Lankan man whose body was found in a burning house on Wednesday. […]

The ground breaking ceremony of the much awaited Shangri-La hotel, Colombo, took place yesterday in the presence of Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa and a large number of foreign and local dignitaries. […]

The Bakery Owner’s Association stated that the price of bread would be increased by Rs.5 from midnight. […]

The United States has said that it wanted Sri Lanka to take “concrete steps” on reconciliation as the Colombo government vowed mass protests against US-backed calls for a UN censure on human rights. […]

The Sri Lankan government or its permanent mission to the UN in Geneva, has no hand in the formulation of a reportedly US- crafted resolution on accountability issues in Sri Lanka, which is expected to be presented to the upcoming UNHRC sessions, a letter sent by the Sri Lankan mission to UNHRC member states and […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by Sudath Silva) Executive  vice chairman  and chief executive officer of the International Finance Corporation, Las Henrick Thunel met President, Mahinda Rajapaksa today  on 23 February at Temple Trees. […]