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The government requests HRCSL to conduct a probe into Tuesday shooting.
"I must say if the police didn't take that action, 300 -400 would have been killed by now,"
Six suspects sentenced to death and nine sentenced to life imprisonment
Diyawadana was tortured and burnt by the mob who accused him of blasphemy early in December
"Institutional capacity for interpreting and applying existing laws in good faith should precede any new legislation."
Sex workers face fundamental rights violations including unlawful detention and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment
The proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution concentrates power in the President creating a “super creature not acc...
A student of the Shri Jayewardenepura University who was seriously injured in a recent ragging incident is asking the Su...
The road that connects Neluwa to Deniyaya is mired in controversy, with many questions being asked about the development...
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...
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The dispute as to who should be nominated to the single National List seat won by the Buddhist Monks-led Our People’s ...
The task of untangling the island from its woes has now been handed over to a male-led Parliament to uphold the true val...
The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) is warning that the government’s desire to abolish the 19th Amendment...
The Opposition is criticizing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s policy statement made to Parliament yesterday saying it h...
Sri Lanka resumed flights to bring back migrant workers from Kuwait today, but returnees say many Sri Lankans remain stu...
By relegating the subject of women and children to a State Ministry without even a stand-alone status, it seems that for...
The threat of Covid-19 still haunts us even though Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in the world, keeping it at bay...
The downgrading of women and children’s affairs from Cabinet to State level has resulted in disappointed citizens and ...
The Buddhist Monk holding the key to the single Parliamentary seat won by the Monks-led Our People’s Power Party (OPPP...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decision to appoint his attorney Mohamed Ali Sabry as Minister of Justice today is cont...
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