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A Resolution against Sri Lanka has passed in the United Nations Human Rights Council, but Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister...
Sri Lanka lost the vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council with 21 members voting for the Resolution calling for...
Sri Lanka has ramped up contacts with Islamic countries as the vote on the Resolution against the island nation at the U...
Former Governor of the Western Province Azath Salley has been arrested on the orders of the Attorney General, the AG’s...
In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.
The new declaration comes as people are frustrated with high cost of living amid unaffordable food prices
The Main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) and the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) are to file Fundamental Ri...
Opposition Parliamentarians staged a protest in the Well of the House today when the government tabled the proposed 20th...
he 20th Amendment to the Constitution which proposes to takes away power from Parliament and vest them with the Presiden...
The extreme nature of the proposed 20th Amendment, tabled in Parliament today, which has been the cause of much disquiet...
Renowned Political Scientist Professor Emeritus Jayadeva Uyangoda finds the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution ...
The Free Media Movement (FMM) is expressing deep concern about the impending threat to the freedom of expression by the ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the main initiator of the controversial 20th Amendment to the Constitution which is now ...
The formulation of the draft 20th Amendment and its unanimous acceptance by the cabinet is indicative of President Gotab...
International groups are expressing concern that the operating environment for civil society and human rights groups in ...
A nine-member committee appointed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to study the various opinions that have been expre...
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Parliamentarian Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is proposing that the government prioritize the return of more than 50,000 Sri Lan...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is saying neither he nor Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa exerted undue influence on the Co...
A panel discussion hosted by the think tank Advocata has highlighted myriad issues that prevent more women from entering...
The Main opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) today Sept 8 launched a protest movement to safeguard the democratic pr...
The United National Party may not appoint a successor to Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe this year, but put it off for...
Parliament descended into a raucous shouting pit this afternoon after the Opposition came to the House clad in Black sha...
The main opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya says its Parliamentary Group resolved unanimously to fight the proposed 20th ...
Opposition activist, Attorney at Law Harshana Nanayakkara is saying that the 20th Amendment to the Constitution if enact...
The Court of Appeal has issued an interim order permitting convicted murderer Premalal Jayasekara to attend Parliamentar...
Media watchdog organisations are expressing the hope that the arrest of the Editor of the lankanewsweb.org website, will...
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