Over 750 new bicycles will be distributed among underprivileged schoolchildren selected from remote areas in the Matara district.

Around stage of the programme, among schoolchildren at a ceremony held under the patronage of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma at the Matara Municipal Council.

The 250 bicycles were distributed among students faced with transport difficulties when attending schools to encourage them to frequently attend s

Analysis by Amantha Perera For the first time since Sri Lanka’s 30-year-long civil conflict drew to a bloody finish in May 2009, casting an eerie hush over the Northern Province that had grown accustomed to the sounds of war, there is a buzz in the air generated by the prospect of provincial elections that hold the promise of radical change.

Though it is yet to be announced formally, political circles in the capital, Colombo, are fixed on the prospect of an election in September.

On May 16, a seminar was held at the Marga Institute to launch  a publication by the Independent Diaspora Analysis Group – Sri Lanka (IDAG-S) – The Numbers Game: Politics of Restorative Justice.

Dr Godfrey Gunatilleke, Chairman Emeritus of the Marga Institute, opened  the proceedings by answering the question: “Do numbers matter”. He acknowledged that, while even a low number of civilian casualties was cause for anguish, citing large and inaccurate figures could only inhibit the healing

Sri Lanka has highlighted the importance of education as an essential tool in combating racism and racial discrimination. Assistant Director/Foreign Affairs Mr. Madhuka Wickramarachchi

Intervening during an Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance at the on-going 23rd Session of the Human Rights Council, Assistant Director/Foreign Affairs Mr. Madhuka Wickramarachchi, observed that Sri Lanka’s education system which is found

The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Vass Gunawardena is now in remand custody while an inquiry into the conspiracy to murder a businessman for pay is ongoing. Even as he is being interrogated he was reported in the television network, Suwarnawa Hini, in its programme on Mulpituwe (Front Page, which is a commentary on leading newspaper stories), as telling the investigating police officers that he is a murderer and that he "will take his revenge when he returns".

For over several years there have been many al

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse pledged on Sunday to proceed with the first-ever provincial polls in the island’s former war zone but his government said the powers of the elected council will be clipped.

The ruling coalition had promised to share limited power with Tamils, pointing to elections to local councils, after the military crushed separatist Tamil rebels in May 2009 and ended 37 years of ethnic bloodshed.

New claims on missing journalist renews international media rights organisations’ interest  

The wife of missing cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda is to request court to allow UPFA Puttlam District parliamentarian Arundika Fernando to be called as a witness when the Habeas Corpus case filed by her is taken up at the Homagama Magistrate’s court on Wednesday.

It is my duty as the elected head of the un-official Bar with a legal fraternity of over 15,000 attorneys spread around the country, to have the privilege of Welcoming your Ladyship. I am joined by not only those who are present here today but the entire membership of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.

I rise today in this august assembly with a mandate from the entire legal fraternity to warmly welcome  your Ladyship Justice Malini Gunaratna as you take your rightful place in this Honourable Court. The entire Bar wi

Views were also expressed regarding the affected fishermen at a media briefing convened on Friday by the Trade Union Alliance.

Chairman of Trade Union Alliance, Saman Ratnapriya expressed these views
'One Ministry is saying that the other ministry is at fault. The Ministries are blaming each other. It is clear that the government should be held responsible over this issue. The two ministries are not only pointing fingers at each other but are also attempting to point fingers at the fishermen. That is where the major iss

Ravana Balaya organization, a Buddhist extremist group in Sri Lanka, today manhandled a group of evangelical Christians who were distributing a religious magazine in the outskirts of Colombo city and handed over them to the police.

A group of people belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses who were distributing the Sinhala version of an international magazine called Awaken! came under the threat of the Buddhist monks of the Ravana Balaya today in Mulleriyawa.