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Asian cricket champions and Asian netball champions are schedule to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow. These groups are scheduled to arrive on the island at 6.30 am tomorrow and the Presidential Media Unit has requested the people to gather on...

Opposition Leader MP Sajith Premadasa expressed his condolences over the demise of the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, HM Queen Elizabeth II by signing the book of condolence at the British High Commission in Colombo.

Sri Lanka has categorically rejected resolution 46/1 which was presented at the 51st regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva today. The report on Sri Lanka from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner...

Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the opposition leader, says that the Finance Minister, President and Prime Minister, who were rejected by the people, have left, but now they have made a puppet of theirs the President and the Pohottu government is destroying...

Sri Lanka’s new Government should embark on a national dialogue to advance human rights and reconciliation, a UN report urges today, calling for accountability and deeper institutional reforms to prevent a recurrence of past violations.  The report acknowledges that Sri Lanka is...

A group of Sri Lankans protested in front of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva against the government's arrests using the Terrorism Act. A large number of people participated in this protest held yesterday. ත්‍රස්ත පනතින් සිදුකරන මර්ධනයට එරෙහිව ඊයේ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fundamental Rights petitions filed by eleven lawyers challenging the legality of the deployment of Army personnel to forcibly disperse a peaceful protest held on the ramparts of the Galle Fort on June 29....

The opposition and civil organizations have requested Ms. Samantha Pawar to pressurize the holding of a general election immediately as the current president and the government do not have a referendum. It has been learned that the main parties of...

Administrator for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power, who was in Sri Lanka on a two-day official visit, left the country on Monday (12). According to the BIA, she left Sri Lanka at about 5:30 this morning...

MP Premalal Jayasekara was sworn in as the State Minister of Ports and Aviation. He is the 38th State Minister appointed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe.