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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...
On March 8, International Women’s Day the Friedrich Nauman Foundation for Freedom invited ten selected women to say w...
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has become the newest villain for Myanmarese fighting for democracy in...
In India, religion and socialism collide and commingle
Protesters have called for another massive protest to oust Ranil Wickremesinghe on August 9
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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The proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution concentrates power in the President creating a “super creature not acc...
A Chairman of a Committee or an official of Parliament cannot be summoned before Presidential Commission of Inquiry to r...
The Main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) says the government should admit it violated the constitution when it a...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has ended the spat over whether C.V. Vigneshwaran’s statement that Tamil was the firs...
A controversial statement made by first-time Member C.V. Vigneshwaran delivering his maiden speech at Parliament on Augu...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has nominated Mahindananda Aluthgamage as his nominee to the Constitutional Council (CC), t...
The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) is saying that it will launch a countrywide people’s movement to safeguard the freedo...
There is a concept of inclusive nationalism, in which everyone born within the boundaries of the country (regardless of ...
Minister of Education Prof G.L. Peiris says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has a moral and legal right to hold the Defence...
The dispute as to who should be nominated to the single National List seat won by the Buddhist Monks-led Our People’s ...
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