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The Russian envoy said the decision was “totally unacceptable”.
Both Karannagoda and his wife, Srimathi Ashoka Karannagoda, will be ineligible for entry into the US.
Sri Lanka has rarely seen sexual harassment allegations coming into the public domain.
The MP claimed that not even Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe appeared to have confidence in the bill.
New law to protect right to burial, cremation, donation of cadaver
Right groups say Sri Lanka is likely face another resolution in the next UNHRC session
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The President’s Committee will implement only what President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants from the Easter Sunday inquiry r...
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Eleven leading Buddhist Monks have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him to take action regarding a stateme...
The 46th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will commence in Geneva, Switzerland, today, where ...
The resistance from a number of senior police officers to the appointment of Bimshani Jasin Arachchi as the first woman ...
This week the UN Human Rights Commission will examine the “deteriorating Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka,” but m...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed yet another committee to examine the report of the Presidential Commission of...
Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah has been remanded until March 3 by the Colombo Magistrate today, taking him out of detention in t...
Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged to “push Sri Lanka to gazette” the step to end the forced cremati...
The Attorney General has ordered the Police Department to produce detained lawyer Hijaz Omar Hizbullah before a Magistra...
If the government and opposition leaderships are united in their resolve to address the grievances of the ethnic and rel...
The Co-Cabinet spokesman Minister Udaya Gammanpila says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was only indicating his private...
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