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Gini Vedunu Piyapat' by literary writer Sandarasee Sudusinghe has been selected as the best poetry anthology of this year's Rajata Book Awards. 'Sansara Kamatahan' was selected as the best short story collection and 'Vahankada' as the best youth novel. Sandarasee...

Sri Lanka Sportsmen and Sportswomen are an Inspiration to the Whole Nation – President Wickremesinghe The Kings and Queens of Asia as well as the Commonwealth Champions were felicitated in an event jointly organized by the official sponsor of the...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe and First Lady Professor Maithrie Wickremesinghe paid their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall a little while ago. The Presidential Media Division announced that Sri Lankan Ambassador Mrs. Saroja Sirisena also joined the event....

Mr. Lasantha Ratnaweera, the Acting Pesticide Registrar of the Pesticide Register Office, points out that the news published by Sunday Mawbima and Sunday Aruna newspapers that poisoned rice was brought to Sri Lanka is completely false and no such research...

 A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, according to the island's weather bureau, sparking a tsunami warning. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at a magnitude 7.2 and at a depth of...

IUSF condemns the government's repression. Terence Rodrigo, the Inter University Students Federation's acting convener, claimed that the government's acts of repression were staged and added that, despite talking about neoliberal principles, none of the activists who had been detained had...

Even when people think all 225 members of parliament have wrecked the country for 74 years. Samagi Jana Balavega, the present opposition, has strived to strengthen the people's society with or without state control. Instead of opposition. Opposition leader Sajith...

Japan supports Sri Lanka media reports indicate. Japan has decided to provide another US$ 3.5 million as additional emergency aid to Sri Lanka. However, this money will be received through the World Food Program (WFP), the International Red Cross and...

Can Ranil's new cabinet of ministers revive the country..?How will SL face UN sanctions..?"Whither Sri Lanka in UNHRC..? The Geneva Human Rights Council meeting is also scheduled to begin in the first week of next month. According to the information...

Decisive Geneva vote regarding Sri Lanka to be taken up at UNHRC in October.. The vote on the proposal that has been submitted to the Geneva Human Rights Council is scheduled to be held on October 7. This proposal has...