Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations such as the United Nations to provide...

Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations such as the United Nations to provide...

Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations such as the United Nations to provide...

Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations such as the United Nations to provide...

Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations such as the United Nations to provide...

Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations such as the United Nations to provide...

Following reports that the resolution against Sri Lanka had been tabled at the UNHRC, Adaderana managed to contact Ambassador Tamara Kunanayakam who said most developing countries and even the European Union are unhappy about the text of the draft resolution as what it tries

The United States has submitted the draft of the resolution to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Wednesday, state reports reaching Adaderana. .....

Fortunaglobal (Pvt) Ltd. won this year’s e-Swabhimani award for the country’s best e-content applications in the m-Content category for its mobile application for the iPhone and Android. The prestigious e-Swabhimani awards presentation is organised annually by the apex Government body for ICT in Sri Lanka, the Information & Technology Agency (ICTA). Derana Macroentertainment Accoun...

UPDATE: There have been no reports yet of any Sri Lankans being affected by the explosion in Oslo, near the Norwegian Prime Minister’s office, Sri Lanka’s ambassador in Norway told Adaderana a short while ago. ....

By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...

By Austin Fernando In recent times there had been vast discussion on returning the displaced. The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), media, Diaspora, diplomatic inquiries- especially from India- led these dialogues. When certain Tamil representatives gave evidence before the LLRC the internally displaced person’s (IDP’s) and refugees’ rights and plight became secondary ...

The Higher Education Ministry is planning to bring in about 10 international higher education institutes to the island. This will make Sri Lanka the hub of Asian higher education, Minister S.B. Dissanayake told Adaderana. ....

Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary told Adaderana this morning (August 14) that he believes President Mahinda Rajapaksa will ratify the verdict of the first Court Martial against Gen. (retired) Sarath Fonseka delivered yesterday. ....

Of the Sri Lankan females who leave the island for employment, only some 36 per cent register themselves as being mothers leaving their children with guardians here, the chairperson of the Child Protection Authority (CPA) told Adaderana this evening. ....

A frequent visitor to the eastern town of Trincomalee narrated this story to AdaDerana this morning. A former Sri Lanka Air Force officer, he witnessed a peace-time ‘humanitarian operation’ by the Sri Lanka Air Force life guard and a Sri Lanka Navy patrol boat. ....

Foreign policies cannot be formulated on the streets and diplomacy cannot be achieved through protests and blackmails said Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva, speaking to Adaderana today.

Mohan Samaranayake, National Information Officer of the UN office in Colombo, speaking to Adaderana today stated that the UN has not closed down any UN offices in Sri Lanka. He also said that the UN office in Colombo will be continuing working today.

The Adaderana staff manning the night shift felt an earth tremor at around 12. 59 am. It lasted for about one minute. A highly worried staff inquired from the Meteorological Department, which said that it had to be confirmed. A few minutes later, the Met. Department confirmed that a slight tremor

Sri Lanka should not depend on foreign loans and instead concentrate on encouraging Foreign Direct Investments for the country’s development, former Malaysian Premier Dr. Mahathir Mohamed told Adaderana a short while ago. ....

The Sri Lanka Wildlife Department is to mount operations to capture and relocate elephants that frequent villages, Department source told Adaderana. ....

When Adaderana contacted the Defence Secretary over the much discussed news item on BBC’s Hardtalk, where Sri Lanka’s Secretary of Defence Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had reportedly stated that Sri Lanka could execute General Sarath Fonseka, he said what he had meant was ‘if Fonseka was found guilty

India and Sri Lanka share the unenviable culture, says Bollywood actress Dia Mirza when Adaderana asked her what the island can expect from the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) Weekend Awards being held here. ....