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The People's Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists declared Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Syria guilty of all human rights breaches on Monday (19). The tribunal also found that the relevant governments had breached various international, regional, and national legal instruments...

Sri Lanka ranks third in terms of real food inflation between September 2021 and August 2022, and fourth in terms of nominal food inflation, according to a research by the World Bank on food security. Sri Lanka ranks fourth in...

National Bhikku Front opposes power cost hikes . Monday at Colombo Fort, a petition against rising electricity costs was signed (19). National Bhikku Front organised a petition-signing programme. Many individuals signed the petition decrying rising pricing and living costs. The...

Indian media reported that this year, India has surpassed China to become the main bilateral lender to Sri Lanka. India's total credit to Sri Lanka at the end of the first four months of this year is US$ 968 million....

RepealPTA mobile signature campaign calling for the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to be repealed reached Anuradapura this morning. The #RepealPTA mobile signature campaign is expected to reach Puttalam this afternoon. The campaign, which was launched in Kankesanthurai in Jaffna,...

The seven Sri Lankan medical students who were allegedly kidnapped and tortured by Russian military in the Kharkiv region close to the Russian border, where there has been fierce fighting for months, have been the subject of horrifying facts revealed...

Ms. Julie Chung, the United States ambassador, recently mentioned in a tweet that during her first official visit to Down South, she came across a notice board that cautioned people to "be wary of peacocks." https://twitter.com/USAmbSL/status/1571720441634357248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1571720441634357248%7Ctwgr%5Ef13f6bf421165533a4f41303b7e005504a153434%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FUSAmbSL2Fstatus2F1571720441634357248widget%3DTweet lie

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Thursday that the Indian Ocean region should be open to all for freedom of navigation. He also said that Sri Lanka was open to the navies of all countries, hinting at a possibility...

The book prices of the 2022 edition of the Colombo International Book Fair, which started on Friday (16) at BMICH after a period of two years, have been much higher than the previous years. Its publishers told the media that...

Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the opposition, said that the government boasting of creating a land of prosperity has taken over a country. But today the country is suffering from malnutrition, the government has suffered from overnutrition. The leader...