Sri Lanka News Explorer
Last 7 Days
Older News
Narrow by Category
- Breaking News (104)
[…]The post Hamaduru Ethics Or Deontology? The Challenge Before Modern Sri Lankans appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- Identity In Choice: The Problem Caste In Christianity (Category: Breaking News)
- My Jaffna Is No Longer My Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Scamming The Gestapo Church, Or Being Sound Christian Witness (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post War On China? – III: Pivot To East appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- War On China? – VI: India & The US: Forward Policy & The Brzezinskian Project (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – V: A “Carnival” Of Quads (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Past Is Prologue For China (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End (Category: Breaking News)
Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and businessman Thirukumar Nadesan have been acquitted in the Malwana property case. Basil Rajapaksa was accused of misappropriating Government funds to purchase the land. He is reported to have constructed a mansion on the land, with a swimming pool and a functioning farm. However, the Gampaha High Court today acquitted […]
- Overseas travel ban on Basil temporarily lifted (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil Rajapaksa likely to step down as an MP (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil says he is not part of the Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil not disappointed on losing MP seat (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Parliament Of Monkeys appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Cabinet Of Patriotic Opportunists (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Ranil Rescue The Economy Or Rajapaksas? (Category: Breaking News)
- RW, IMF & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- GR’s Gamble With RW (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Moment Of Truth For The Church Of Ceylon: Are We Better Than The Rajapaksas? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has been facing a severe economic crisis since the beginning of 2021 and was trying to cushion the effect of the financial instability by seeking help from almost all friendly countries. Sri Lanka sought the intervention of the good offices of the political hierarchy of Bangladesh and Pakistan, apart from India, for much-needed […]
- China assures will not harm Sri Lanka’s interests (Category: Breaking News)
- China only observer in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring platform (Category: Breaking News)
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s attitude puzzles Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Our Malathi (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Our Malathi (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Our Malathi (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Our Malathi (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Is Ranjan Ramanayake Disqualified? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Scandalizing The Court: A Non-Existing Offence (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Years Prison Term For Contempt Of Court Violates The International Covenant On Civil And Po... (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Years Prison Term For Contempt Of Court Violates The International Covenant On Civil And Po... (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Years Prison Term For Contempt Of Court Violates The International Covenant On Civil And Po... (Category: Breaking News)
Since 19 June 2012, human rights defender and Teachers Union leader Dr Nirmal Dewasiri has been subjected to surveillance and intimidation. Nirmal Dewasiri is the President of the Federation of University Teachers Unions (FUTA) and the Secretary of the Arts Faculty Teachers’ Association of the University of Colombo (AFTU-CU). He has been active in campaigning for ...
- Surveillance and intimidation of Dr Nirmal Dewasiri (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka university teachers condemn harassment of university association head (Category: Breaking News)
- No solution yet for Sri Lanka university teachers union demands (Category: Breaking News)
- FUTA president says he's being harassed by defence authorities (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankans can now buy digital music and movies from Apple’s iTunes Store, the Malaysian insider reported. Music and movies are a new addition to the iTunes Store for 12 countries in Asia, which include Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Users in these markets could only download and purchase apps f...
- Robbery first, then movies (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- The movies that never came out in 2020 (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- The movies that never came out in 2020 (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
The UN should not be taking the side of the bullies, nor should they be adding to the confusion and speculation by failing to renew Lee’s accreditation. As for the UNCA; their role is to stand up for its members, not to expel them and we can see no justification for the continuation of this ...
- Lanka’s pressure, Mathew thrown out of UNCA (Category: Breaking News)
- As Sri Lanka Minister Blocks 300 UN Staff, UN Nambiar Assured by Kohona (Category: Breaking News)
- As Sri Lanka Burns Him in Effigy, UN Ban Has No Comment, Pillay Says Speak to Gov't (Category: Breaking News)
- UNCA Suspends Lee (Category: Breaking News)
“If we can’t think for ourselves, if we are unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power”. – Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Gen. Fonseka was freed not because President Rajapaksa experienced a sudden democratic-epiphany or embraced the ‘quality of mercy’. The politico-electorally disabling nature ...
- Fonseka 'ready to talk' with UN panel (Category: Breaking News)
- In consolidating power, President Rajapaksa risks squandering one of his country's greatest adva... (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Declare' Fonseka president - petition (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka threatens to execute General Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
The government continued to arbitrarily detain, torture or ill-treat people and subject people to enforced disappearance. It failed to address most instances of impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The government rejected repeated allegations of war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict that ended in 2009, prompting Amnesty International to ...
- UN Studying LLRC Report (Category: Breaking News)
- Investigate visiting Sri Lankan President - U.S. Urged by Amnesty Int'l (Category: Breaking News)
- Amnesty demands Sri Lanka war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- The Need to Address Persistent Impunity for Violations and Abuses of International Human Rights ... (Category: Breaking News)
23 March 2012 – The UN’s human rights chief today warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan human rights defenders in the wake of a resolution calling on its Government to probe alleged abuses during the country’s civil war. The warning from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, follows the ...
- UN HR Commissioner urges G'ment to "protect human rights defenders" (Category: Breaking News)
- OHCHR PRESS BRIEFING NOTE - Sri Lanka and Malawi (Category: Breaking News)
- Navi Pillay warns Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Stop Hate Campaigns (Category: Breaking News)
A staff nurse of Changi General Hospital, Singapore who was allegedly molested by a doctor from Sri Lanka, was reportedly ‘advised’ by the hospital not to lodge a police report against the culprit, according to an informant who wishes to remain anonymous. A resident physician from Sri Lanka who works in the hospital’s Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care department was accused...
- Call for GPs to end emergency dept jam (Category: South Australia)
- Doctor commits suicide (Category: Breaking News)
- Sisters gave birth 90 minutes apart after sharing pandemic pregnancy experience (Category: USA, Iowa)
- Sisters gave birth 90 minutes apart after sharing pandemic pregnancy experience (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
The High Commissioner for Human Rights today warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan human rights defenders in the aftermath of Thursday’s adoption by the Human Rights Council of a resolution on Sri Lanka, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville said. “During this Human Rights Council session, there has been an unprecedented and...
- Sri Lanka / human rights defenders (Category: Breaking News)
- Navi Pillay warns Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UN call SL govt to stop intimidation (Category: Breaking News)
- SL rejects C’wealth move for HR Commissioner (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lankan ambassador in Geneva Tamara Kunanayakam has received an anonymous threatening letter which is being followed up by the police and UN security, the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said today. Meanwhile the High Commissioner for Human Rights today also warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan ...
- Tamara faults Pillay (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka / human rights defenders (Category: Breaking News)
- Navi Pillay warns Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UN call SL govt to stop intimidation (Category: Breaking News)
By Indika Sri Aravinda The Carlton Sports Network (CSN), owned by the Mahinda Rajapaksa family, has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 2012 London Olympics. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has already paid for and obtained the exclusive rights for the broadcast and stands to lose financially if it gives the rights to another ...
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic rights ‘will not be transferred’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Stay order on Olympic games telecast rights (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Kill them out of the way… And let me hear their everlasting grunts and whines no more!” Shelley (Œdipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant) Abductions in the South continue unabated, even as the Resolution on Sri Lanka awaits a vote in Geneva. Can there be a more damning measure of Rajapaksa-addiction to ...
- Crime And Punishment, In Rajapaksa Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Criminal Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- SLMC to decide on support to govt. re NE merger (Category: Breaking News)
- Drug addicts rob wealthy homes in Mt. Lavinia (Category: Breaking News)
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- The Darusman (UN) Report was inevitable due to colossal failure by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas using Sinhala spremacism to win Southern consent for anti-democratic constitutional r... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa treatment of Fonseka is like Prabhakaran tratment of Mahathaya (Category: Breaking News)
A Sri Lankan Government delegation has raised awareness in the UN Human Rights Commissioner about Darusman report and the prevailing situation in the country. The delegation now in Geneva led by Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday met with Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay. They informed her about the prevailing situation in the country. Speaking ...
- Minister Basil briefs the OHCHR delegates (Category: Breaking News)
- UN team briefed on Sri Lanka's post-conflict progress on human rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's measures to combat terrorism disregarded human rights, UN HR Commissioner says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan delegation asks HR high commissioner to be impartial (Category: Breaking News)
Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own cloth. President of the United States Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India said that:”I am mindful that I ...
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Children of the 1977 Free Market Economy and their world without vision (Category: Breaking News)
- US Judge dismisses case against Rajapakse but warns no way a reflection on the merits (Category: Breaking News)
- US grants immunity to President Rajapakse in War Crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe Attorney-at-Law The Supreme One said : “I am made evident by my own power, and as often as there is a decline of virtue and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, I make myself evident and thus I appear from age to age for the preservation of the ...
- Vedda chief raises concerns about arresting Aragalaya activists (Category: Breaking News)
- Gem land in Sri Lanka's deep south auctioned for Rs. 270 million (Category: Breaking News)
- President opens renovated entrance to sacred city of Kataragama (Category: Breaking News)
- Final Randoli Perahera tonight (Category: Breaking News)
Popular Topics
- International Monetary Fund (55)
- Political crisis (57)
- Foreign exchange reserves (28)
- Shortage (1)
- Bank reserves (12)
- Anonymous (104)
- Fuel (7)
- Economy of Sri Lanka (104)
- Russia (4)
- Ukraine (2)
- Sri Lanka Tea (104)
- Tourism (6)
- Sri Lanka Quality Tea (104)
- Sri Lanka Tourism (104)
- Sri Lanka Cricket (104)
- Sri Lanka Hotels (104)
- Sri Lanka Elections (104)
- Hiru Tv (10)
- ITN News (104)
- Newsfirst (1)
- Shakthi Tv (10)
- Rupavahini (1)
- Derana Dream Star (11)
- BBC (8)