The British Labour Parliamentarian, Simon Danczuk who visited Sri Lanka last week in search of justice for one of his constituents Khuram Shaikh, a Red Cross worker who was cruelly murdered in Tangalle on  Christmas eve, 2011 raised the issue relating to the importance of improving the rule of law and a speedy justice system in the country. The British MP for Rochdale expressed his distress over the response of senior government politicians to his request to meet them to discuss the murder case and also warned that if a quick remedy

A group of Tamils from the north submitted a petition to the UN office in Colombo as well as the Human Rights Commission regarding the police preventing them from heading to Colombo recently to stage a demonstration.

Organizers said that some 26 people, including Tamils politicians and clergy, visited the UN office to hand over the peition and from there lodged a complaint at the Human Rights Commission office in Colombo.

On March 5th the police blocked a group of people heading to Colombo from the north to take par

Sri Lanka on Wednesday said it remained hopeful of India's backing against a U.S. sponsored resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Sri Lanka's Foreign Secretary Karunatillaka Amunugama told Xinhua that India is likely to make its decision however at the very last minute when the final document is presented.

"Of course we will remain hopeful that India will back us. Even we are waiting to see what their response is," Amunugama said.

An individual has attacked police officers who were deployed to arrest him on charges of manufacturing illicit liquor in the Rajanganaye yaya 14 area.

Police said that the incident took place when four officers of the Rajanganaya Police had arrived at the individual's house in the afternoon in order to arrest him.

The officers were attacked by the suspect and another individual.

All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama organisation had been challenged by the Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka to come for a confrontation and a debate in regard to the question that although the Halal logo had been removed but the Halala procedure had not been removed from the Halal concept according to the ‘sharia’ law. In response to his challenge the officials of the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama organisation had added that with regard to Champika Ranawaka’s challenge, they only sympathise with him as his knowledge in this r

Students are leading the protest movement demanding probe against Sri Lankan government for committing war crimes against Tamils. Students, mostly studying law are in the forefront of the protests across Tamil Nadu. The students are expressing their protest through fast. Media reports say around . Ambedkar Law University and Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College in Chennai, continued with their fast on Wednesday. Students are demanding an independent probe against Colombo for alleged war crimes.

Chief Government Whip Dinesh Gunawardena commenting on the rising communal tensions in Sri Lanka said no organisation could take the law into its hands under the pretext of protecting religion

“The law of the country has to prevail, no organisation can take the law into their hands under the pretext of protecting a religion,” he said.

The minister said the Cabinet sub-committee would hold a crucial meeting in this regard this afternoon.

Ousted Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake was requested to be present before the Commission to Investigate Bribery and Corruption on March 18.

Meanwhile the Lawyers Collective, who vociferously defended the ousted Chief Justice said the government has started ‘it’s much practiced witch hunts of those who do not submit’ to them

“Under the prevailing situation where politicization of all public institutions at all levels is prevalent, we are of the considered view that the government has s

Nothing in the world has been spared the agony of politicisation needless to speak of its optimum exploitation of biological   differences - so very relevant to ‘Women’s Day.’ As a result, gender has come to stay. If history is the study of the past so that we may locate ourselves in the present and see the future, a historical recollection is needed for the present predicament of women.   Never was women’s reproductive capacity valued and politicised so vehemently as in 17th century Britain fo

"The University Grants Commission (UGC) has curtailed the number of new admissions to universities, despite an undertaking given to the Supreme Court (SC) that an additional 5,600 students will be admitted this year," Convener, Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF), Sanjeewa Bandara said. The results of thousands of students had to be re-scrutinized as the Z-score marking messed up the overall results, leaving students virtually stranded, and some seeking legal redress to enable them to pursue higher studies.