For the purpose of this article, I refer to the Sri Lankan diaspora as those Sri Lankans who have migrated to a foreign country permanently and not those who are temporarily working or residing in foreign countries. Estimates suggest that

The latest “Geneva Report on Sri Lanka, or the Report of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Sri Lanka, was released on September 16 in Geneva during its currently ongoing 30th session.

Merger of Northern and Eastern Provinces was one of the key proposals incorporated in the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of July 29, 1987, which was thrust upon us by India as a result of intense lobbying by pro-separatist groups.

United National Party parliamentarian and the Minister of Plantation Industries, Navin Dissanayake in an interview with the Dailymirror  said that the UNP has always been pro business.

The long awaited Report by the United Nations Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka has now been released.  Its contents have grave implications for the destiny of our country,...

Friday Forum is deeply disturbed at the prospect of judicial executions taking place again in Sri Lanka after a gap of nearly 40 years. 

The tragic incident that took place on Saturday in Gokarella  where a ten-month-old baby was trampled to death by an elephant, when a relative  attempted to carry the baby under the belly of the animal,  occurred during a festival at t

I am confident everyone who reads this article will enhance their knowledge with regard to parking of vehicles and standing on roads where No Parking and No Parking & Standing sign boards are erected or exhibited on roads.

The 261-page-report on Sri Lanka presented to the UN Human Rights Council is not a pleasant reading. Understandably so, because, it refers.....

Sri Lanka unjustifiably retained US PR and lobbying firms in the post-2009 period at a massive cost to the country. This stands out as a gigantic fraud considering that the war......

Overseas Development Institute in a report on Parliaments published in 2005 states – “In terms of enacting laws,  debating national issues,  checking the activities of the......

Those were the days when people could peacefully sit on Sri Lanka’s golden beaches and sing with the well-known Nina and Fredrick the beautiful song, “Listen to the ocean.....

The Kelani River, a 145-km-long and ranked as the fourth longest river in the country. From its root in the Sri Pada Mountain Range it flows through Nuwara Eliya, Ratnapura, Kegalle, Gampaha and reaches Colombo.

Minister of Women and Child Affairs Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe is entrusted with the duty of playing a proactive role -- both inside and outside Parliament -- to ensure women and children’s rights.....

There were media reports about a week ago revealing that the Japanese authorities have ordered the closing down of Social Science Faculties at The Universities in Japan. This is incredible but......

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are toilet-trained to share a common loo as newly weds in an era of same sex marriage. A streak that runs in a national government predominantly stuffed with.....

Medicine or the sacred art, if not the heart of healing has for centuries been revered as a vocation on the lines of the priesthood. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken.....

?To see , to hear, to smell, to taste and to feel are all privileges of living. Yet, there are few of us deprived of one or more of these essentials. 

Berty from 68 Watte, a slum, was the owner of a battered three-wheeler he hired hoping to make ends meet, but couldn’t. 

On the last day of last month, right wing demonstrators, mostly from neo-fascist movements, hurled themselves against the police in Kiev’s Maidan square, ...

In the run-up to the recent Presidential and General Elections, United National Party (UNP) leader Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe said:....

With the new national unity government headed by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe committed....

The world is going through its worst refugee crisis since World War II, with 42,000 people displaced every day.

The United States of America has not ratified the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (“ICC”). Consequently,

Zeid Al Hussein and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

The much feared report is now out and it says little in terms of any new allegations. Many...

At a meeting on Wednesday (16) in Myanmar’s new capital Nay Pyi Taw with...

An interesting situation in respect of the much talked about report released on Wednesday...

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. Those who do not read live only one, according...

There have been several stories read and heard through several media about people who were born and/or made disabled due to various reasons. But the saddest and the bitter fact is they are often isolated in society.