Shenali D Waduge The UNHRC comprises 47 member states. The UNHRC members are elected by the General Assembly for 3 years. The UN General Assembly comprises 193 Member States of which Sri Lanka is one. Sri Lanka is not a MEMBER of UNHRC. Sri Lanka is merely an OBSERVER state.As Sri Lanka is not a member, Sri […]

Sugath Kulatunga.(1) Today we see a revolution in longevity. The percentage of old people in the total population is growing steadily. In this background, all over the world, increasing attention has been focused on old people. Ageing is being considered only as a factor of social differentiation and not one of social discrimination.  The Madrid […]

Malinda Seneviratne Rosy is out of order. Colombo’s liberals and leftists are out of order. Democracy-advocating NGO personalities are out of order. Funded Voices, Rent-a-Protest Agitators, Born Again Nazis, Candlelight Ladies, Colombots, Stink Tanks and other Kolombians are out of order. And that’s good, for they reveal themselves when they shout and when they are silent.  […]

Dilrook Kannangara The nation and the people are in a deep economic crisis. In the midst of the crisis, the government has decided to dish out 15,000 rupees each only to Hindus in the plantations sector. This is highly discriminatory and is a violation of the Constitution which guarantees equal rights to all individuals. If […]

SPUR  (Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc) ගරු කථානායකතුමා  ඇතුලු සියලු ම පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීතුමන්ලා වෙත. ගරු මැතිතුමනි / මැතිනියණි,! ඔබේත් අපේත් මාතෘභූමිය වෙනුවෙන් කරනු ලබන කාරුණික ආයාචනයයි ශ්‍රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා, දැනට දශක දෙකකට අධික කාලයක් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සිට අඛණ්ඩව කටයුතු කරනු ලබන, දේශහිතෛෂි ශ්‍රී […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit  Indian CEOs to promote trade and investments thru ‘Shine Sri Lanka Indian CEO Forum-Sri Lanka (ICF) called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday (6). The Prime Minister stressed the need for further growth in bilateral trade and increase Indian investments in new areas, where Indian techno […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආර්ථිකයට සැලකිය යුතු  දායකත්වයක් ලබාගත හැකි  නව ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් හී ඉන්දීය ආයෝජන  ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම වර්තමානයේ  අත්‍යවශ්‍ය බවඅග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. ‟ෂයින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා″ වැඩසටහන සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා ඉන්දියානු විධායක නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ (ICF) නියෝජිතයින් 2022.10.06 දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය.ද්විපාර්ශ්වීය වෙළෙඳාම තවදුරටත් වර්ධනය […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 6: Sri Lanka lost the vote on the human rights situation in the country at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Thursday. Out of the 47 members, 20 voted in favor of the resolution that castigated Sri Lanka for a variety of human rights violations and […]

Courtesy Khaleej Times It has also allowed trials against ex prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, finance minister and two central bank governors Sri Lanka’s top court has granted permission for proceedings against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the rights group which filed the case against him said in a statement on Friday. The court also agreed to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Lotus Tower and Singapore Go Bungy company has signed a contract to start bungee jumping for the first time in Sri Lanka, which would be the world’s highest bungee jump after it is launched. The adventure jumping will be launched in Sri Lanka from January 1 next year. The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka became among the ten friendliest countries in the world at the 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards, the Condé Nast Traveller official website said. They said the friendliest ten countries were selected while asking the readers to vote for the countries they considered to be home to the friendliest people in […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite the programme to provide welfare&nbsp;benefits to 3.1 million low-income families in Sri Lanka.<br /> <br />This program has been planned to cover all the districts of the country under the theme &lsquo;Don’t&nbsp;Leave Anyone Behind’. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe revealed this while&nbsp;attending a media […]

Courtesy Adaderana The dates of the 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination and the Grade 05 Scholarship exams for the year 2022 have been pushed back, the Department of Examinations announced. Accordingly, the Grade 05 Scholarship exam will be held on December 18, 2022. Meanwhile, the A/L exam will commence on January 23, 2023, and will […]

Courtesy Adaderana Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa was appointed today (07) as the Chairman of the National Council Sub-Committee on Identifying Priorities in Formulating Short, Medium and Long-Term Policies. The name of Namal Rajapaksa for the post of Chairman was proposed by the Member of Parliament Sagara Kariyawasam, which was seconded by Member of Parliament […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that if the country is to overcome the current challenges, stability must be created in the country, and in order to achieve that, accurate information must be circulated among the public. Pointing out that nothing can be achieved without propaganda, the President called on all the media secretaries to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka was elected today (07) as the chairman of the National Council sub-committee on identifying short- and medium-term programs related to economic stabilization. The first meeting of the said sub-committee was held today (07) in Parliament. The name of Patali Champika Ranawaka for the post of Chairman was […]