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"I must say if the police didn't take that action, 300 -400 would have been killed by now,"
Six suspects sentenced to death and nine sentenced to life imprisonment
Diyawadana was tortured and burnt by the mob who accused him of blasphemy early in December
“The protests roiling Sri Lanka are a clear message about many people’s economic situation."
Thalduwa further claimed that Sri Lanka Police uses teargas produced by internationally recognised companies.
The need to appoint an Ombudswoman has also been recognised, he said.
The government is unlikely to accede to a request made by Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake to shut down the country’s com...
The government will go ahead with a plan to introduce laws to resolve employee disputes in the State Sector which will b...
As the second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic continues to engulf the country, and the public is increasingly showing its ...
Sri Lanka’s police have issued a stern warning to Social Media users who create and share fake news about the Covid 19...
Prof Rohan Samarajiva is saying that process of making a new constitution to the country is not something that is owned ...
The Health authorities have issued a set of guidelines to those celebrating the Hindu festival of light – Deepavali - ...
Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority is still hopeful that the government will lift the order for the mandatory cremation of th...
Sri Lankan authorities are conducting mass testing for the Coronavirus in its largest jail after at least two dozen inma...
Sri Lanka recorded its 30th Covid 19 fatality late last night as the authorities scrambled to deal with an outbreak of t...
A group of women detainees at the Welikada jail in Colombo are staging a protest as tensions arising from the discovery ...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is setting up a project for Prison Inmates in Sri Lanka to interact ...
Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that a “Specialists Committee” is to meet this week to discuss the conte...
A post-mortem examination of the remains of the 36-year-old man with special needs who allegedly took his own life when ...
Sri Lanka has been assisted by China in its post-war reconstruction efforts but is not caught in a debt-trap President G...
The United States offers a different vision for Sri Lanka of shared democratic values and the exercise of sovereign righ...
The United National Party is demanding that the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress reveal the deal it struck with Prime Minister ...
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who arrived in Sri Lanka last night will have talks today with President Go...
The door has opened for the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the United Kingdom to be lifted by a r...
Leader of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Rauff Hakeem is urging the members of his party not to vote in favour of the ...
Faced with a pandemic the government’s priority should be enacting laws to deal with the health crisis and not bring i...
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