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Reforming Sri Lanka's legal system national duty of all stakeholders: Justice Minister

It is the national duty of all stakeholders in Sri Lanka’s legal system to reform the system by updating it effectivel...

January 25, 2021 2 min read

Red Cross welcomes advent of nuclear weapon ban

The first instrument of International Humanitarian Law to explicitly prohibit the use and testing of nuclear weapons com...

January 25, 2021 3 min read

Karu calls for action on rapidly escalating human-elephant conflict

The National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) is calling on the government to immediately act on mitigating the human-...

January 22, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka gets demarche, India says shocked over fishermen deaths

India has said it was shocked at the death of three Indian fishermen and a Sri Lanka national after a collision with a S...

January 22, 2021 2 min read
Recognise Sri Lankan women's contributions including unpaid house work: Diana

The outspoken MP also highlighted harassment aimed at herself and other female colleagues in parliament.

Sri Lanka must emulate New Zealand, Scotland in combating period poverty: Sajith

‘Period poverty’ refers to difficulties faced by low-income women and girls in accessing menstrual products.

Sri Lanka condemns North Korea nuclear blast

Sri Lanka has condemned a nuclear test by North Korea and asked the country not to de-stabilize the region.

September 15, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka President sends powerful message to military by deflating air chief

Sri Lanka's President's surprise decision not to extend air chief Gagan Bulathsinghala's term has triggered speculation ...

Our Political Correspondent
September 14, 2016 3 min read

Death sentence for Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa loyalist

A loyalist of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family and former supervisor MP of the defence ministry, Dumind...

Our Political Correspondent
September 8, 2016 3 min read

Court orders fresh autopsy on slain Sri Lanka editor

A Sri Lankan court Thursday ordered a fresh autopsy on the body of a anti-establishment newspaper editor Lasantha Wickre...

Our Police Correspondent
September 8, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka demands security for envoy after Malaysia assault

Sri Lanka on Monday demanded a swift arrest of those responsible for assaulting the island's top envoy in Malaysia and a...

By Our Political Correspondent
September 5, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka condemns attack on envoy to Malaysia

Sri Lanka's foreign ministry condemned an attack on its envoy to Malaysia by suspected ethnic Tamil activists who were p...

September 5, 2016 1 min read

UN chief asks Sri Lanka to reduce military presence

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Sri Lanka to speed up returning land to war-battered minority Tamils and reduce the...

September 2, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka shows progress in justice and equality; more to be done: Ban Ki-moon

Sri Lanka has made progress in reconciliation, rule of law and justice, but more needs to be done in resettling and re-b...

September 2, 2016 2 min read

UN Chief calls on Sri Lanka Prime Minister

ECONOMYNEXT - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe shortly after arriving in ...

September 1, 2016 1 min read

UN chief Ban Ki-moon to visit Sri Lanka next week

ECONOMYNEXT - Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Mrs Ban Soon-taek, will visit Sri Lan...

August 26, 2016 2 min read
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Sri Lanka appoints honorary consul to Texas

Sri Lanka has appointed Susantha Shan Halamba as Honorary Consul for Sri Lanka to the State of Texas in the United State...

August 22, 2016 1 min read

'Monsoon Munchers' in Sri Lanka

A group of eminent personalities associated with New Zealand and calling their group "Monsoon Munchers" have visited Sri...

August 21, 2016 4 min read

Sri Lanka President reads riot act to Rajapaksa loyalists

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena marked the first anniversary of his national unity government by firing dire ...

August 19, 2016 3 min read

UN Sec-Gen contender gets in a tizzy in Sri Lanka

A contender for the top UN job and current Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova may have got her facts wrong about wo...

Our Political Correspondent
August 19, 2016 3 min read

Deputy Foreign Minister calls for greater US investments in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha de Silva has called for the US to urge American businesses to invest in Sri L...

August 19, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka shadow FM's high flying air hostess remanded

A director of shadow foreign minister Namal Rajapaksa's string of private companies who was remanded till next Monday tu...

Our Political Correspondent
August 17, 2016 9 min read

Need to counter disinformation against closer Indo-Lanka ties: Indian envoy

ECONOMYNEXT – India’s envoy to Sri Lanka has called for moves to counter what he called a disinformation c...

August 15, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka parliament sets up office to trace war missing

Sri Lanka's parliament Thursday approved a bill to set up a special office to trace thousands of people still missing se...

Our Political Correspondent
August 11, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's ex-greats humiliated after Aussie cricket debacle

Australia's latest spin bowling mentor, former Sri Lankan great Muttiah Muralitharan, was sulking Saturday after accusin...

Our Political Correspondent
July 30, 2016 4 min read

Sri Lanka cracks down on overseas jaunts by politicians, officials

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered a crackdown on the misuse of public funds and...

July 27, 2016 1 min read