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Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Bishops are united in expressing their dissatisfaction over the investigations into the Eas...
Ten women, academics, professionals, activists and sportswomen were invited to speak for ten minutes at a March 8 event ...
The Free Media Movement (FMM) is calling for the abolishing of the Press Council and has vehemently opposed the governme...
Commitments made by the government of Sri Lanka for equality and justice for the Tamil community through meaningful devo...
The official has also sought clarification from the hospital director for the nonpayment of Sihabdeen’s salary.
He has not read the Koran, only the “Sally” part of his name is Muslim
Police are investigating an incident where stones were thrown and shots fired at two buses carrying Muslim voters from P...
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Sri Lankans began voting Saturday on elections to select their next President, with key candidates offering subsidies, t...
Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka on Saturday, hours before...
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has asked people to go to vote on November 16 to elect a president without fe...
The battle between the contestants is also a struggle to replace Sri Lanka's septuagenarian leadership with younger lead...
Sri Lankans choose a new president on Saturday in what could mark a comeback for the Rajapaksa clan, lauded by supporter...
At least 50 Sri Lankan election officials at the capital Colombo's main counting centre were admitted to hospital on Fri...
It has cost the authorities Rs. 60 million to date to remove posters, banners and cutouts promoting canddiates so far, t...
The National People’s Power (NPP) has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against a Sunday newspaper ...
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Armed men stabbed and injured a writer in Sri Lanka on Thursday, a week after he published a book criticising the main ...
A freelance journalist and writer in Galle came under attack this morning over a book he wrote about alleged corruption ...
All government schools across the island will be closed tomorrow (15) in view of the presidential election scheduled for...
In an open letter circulating on social media, the Royal Park murder covict claims his presidential pardon was not arbit...
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) said today (14) that it has recorded complaints of a number of incidents of ...
Presidential hopeful General Mahesh Senanayake has warned of a resurgence in anti-Muslim sentiment in the country in the...
Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said yesterday that in no other election has the media behaved worse than they ...
Sri Lanka's Presidential candidates ended campaigning with the candidates promising a fast growing economy, national sec...
Lawyers for TNA MP M. A. Sumanthiran wrote to the Acting IGP today requesting an investigation into allegedly false repo...
Non-Cabinet Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe said today that a US court has referred to presidential hopeful GOtabaya Rajapa...
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