After widespread media reports that a children’s home at Bogahapelessa, Tissamaharama was using its inmates to do menial work, including slaughter of animals, the police raided the place yesterday and questioned the pastor running it and the children concerned.

The main allegation in the reports was that children were being used to slaughter animals at a nearby farm, which supplies the home.

But the pastor had denied the charge and had said it was run by its owner using some other children.

Japan helps Sri Lanka to stand strong in the world stage, said Education Minister Bandula Gunawardene addressing the inauguration of the Asia Pacific Children’s Convention Mission Project 2013, at Sirimavo Bandaranaike Balika Vidyalaya yesterday

“The education system functioning in Japan is ideal for Sri Lanka as well. They are building a creative next generation via their education system. All measures have been taken to make changes in our education system to make a creative next generation by 2016. We launched t

Canadian Senator, Hugh D. Segal, who is also the Commonwealth Special Envoy of Canada, emphasized the need to take and make real initiatives on accountability on both sides. He said publishing a list of detainees, and on demilitarizing wherever possible, would help work towards reconciliation that would not only be a concrete superstructure but superstructures of civility and generosity, that would ultimately be of immense value.

Senator Hugh Segal delivered a lecture under the theme, 'The Commonwealth As a Force for Good&

The Sri Lankan government has denied a report that it is “exploring the possibility” of shifting the Deputy High Commissioner’s office from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, following the recent incidents of violence against  Lankans and their establishments in Tamil Nadu.

“There is no move to shift the mission, as of now. But it may be considered if the situation in Tamil Nadu worsens,” Foreign Secretary Karunatilaka Amunugama told Express here on Sunday, reacting to a front page repor

The United States says that if Sri Lanka fails to conduct an independent inquiry in to the war crimes alleged to have taken place during the final stages of war in Sri Lanka, they will have to think of an international mechanism for that purpose.

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert Blake made this comment in an interview with the BBC World Service.

After a series of attacks on mosques, wild rumours about animal slaughter and an attempt to outlaw the halal system of classification, the BBC's Charles Haviland investigates how Sri Lanka's Muslim minority is being targeted by hardline Buddhists.

On a January morning a crowd of Buddhist monks storm a law college, yelling, chanting and even hitting one or two seemingly random people and pushing back the police. Furiously they shout that the exam results have been distorted to favour Muslims.

Several demonstrations were staged across the country yesterday in protest against the assault of two Sri Lankan monks in Tamil Nadu, India.

Teachers and students of Dhamma schools which come under the purview of the Bandaragama Divisional Secretariat engaged in a protest march this morning.

Buddhist monks of 39 temples as well as students and teachers of 35 Dhamma schools marched into the Bandaragama town.

Legal experts says that the government must adopt a new scheme in implementing recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.

Dean of the faculty of Law at the Kotelawala Defence Academy Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa says that attention must be focussed on implementing these recommendations through the appointment of a special committee.

''A committee must be appointed to implement the recommendations of the LLRC report. A committee is essential in order to take some recommendations into co

The scientific examination reports of 154 skeletons found in the Matale Hospital premises has been submitted to the Matale Magistrate.

The investigations were conducted by the JMO specialist of the Matale hospital Dr. Ajith Jayasena, along with Professor Raj Somadeva of the postgraduate institute of Archaeology, of the Kelaniya university.

Over the past months Sri Lankans have been educated on two Arabic words: halal and haram (that which is permissible and not permissible). Unfortunately the circumstances of learning have been an unprecedented antagonism towards the Muslim community much deeper than the halal issue. This trend must be addressed without delay by the government and all religions before it spirals into a much wider conflict, which the country can ill afford.

The government’s responsibility is to do what all governments are mandated to do: en