The government has objected to the draft report on Sri Lanka prepared by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay which is to be submitted at the February-March session of the Human Rights Council.
According to government sources the report has been seen as biased and unfair.
The report focuses on the engagement of UN mechanisms in support of the accountability and reconciliation processes in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Ministry Secretary Karunatilaka Amunugama said that the gove

A section of the legal community has alleged that the Law College had not addressed core issues pertaining to the law entrance examinations held last year.
They pointed out that the faculty had omitted translation errors that cost several students their place at Law College.

“The Faculty should have given the marks lost due to translation errors to the students instead of bringing down the cut-off marks”, said Priyadharshana Gamage, member of the Bar Association of Kandy and a lecturer.
He said that those

The army has strongly denied allegations raised by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that hundreds of those who had surrendered to the army at the conclusion of the Vanni battle in May 2009, were missing.
Military Spokesperson, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya, said the army or the defence forces have not arbitrarily either arrested or carried out any acts as alleged by the TNA at the recent press conference.
TNA Parliamentarian, Suresh Premachandran, had accused the government and the army of maintaining silence with regard to th

Three years have elapsed, but Sri Lankan Tamils crisis not settled. There are insufficient developments in human rights issues. This is the cause for the entire Tamilnadu to congregate against Sri Lanka government.
 
It is no use of blaming the Tamilnadu leaders. Sri Lanka government should improve itself.
 
 Protest in Tamilnadu is the beginning, but this situation in future may get worst was the warning given to Sri Lanka government by Democratic Front Leader Mano Ganeshan.
 

Head and shoulders of Kamalesh Sharma Commonwealth Secretary General in Perth for CHOGM Photo: Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, opened talks with Sri Lanka on Sunday by pushing for judicial independence on the island.
Map: Sri Lanka

The Commonwealth Secretary-General opened talks with Sri Lanka on Sunday by pushing for judicial independence on the island, as Canada renewed calls to boycott the bloc's summit in Colombo later this year.

Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma is holding talks with S

The Three-Wheel Association and the Police are on a collision course with the Association saying it will defy police orders not to have additional parts fixed to three-wheelers.
Secretary of the Association H. E. D. Prassana said that the Motor Traffic Department had given approval recently for three-wheelers to have additional parts fixed outside the vehicle.
He said that the approval was granted following talks held with Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa.
Police DIG Traffic, Amarasiri Senaratne, said that the Police will not

President Mahinda Rajapaksa raised two significant issues in his Independence Day address.

Firstly he pointed out to the sovereign equality of all member states of the United Nations and that the UN Charter precludes all members from the use of threats or force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state and that the United Nations’ Charter does not authorise even the United Nations to intervene in the domestic affairs of member states. These observations are particularly relevant in the cont

National Languages and Social Integration Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara told the Sunday Observer in an interview that much headway has been made during the last two years to implement Tamil as an official language and promote communal amity and mutual understanding among the different communities towards the goal of unifying the country as one nation.

He said the last UNHCR resolution was not drastic but in implementing the LLRC report which the Government has started on, there are interventions from interested parties and Sta

The Commonwealth Secretary General arrives in Colombo today with the sword of Damocles, so to say, hanging over the head of Sri Lanka; both in terms of hosting the Commonwealth Summit (CHOGM) later this year and even more importantly, our very existence as a member of the 54-member grouping of former British colonies.

The fact that the Minister of External Affairs had to rush to London to meet the Secretary General just a few days before the SG emplaned for Colombo speaks volumes for the gravity of the matter which Sri Lanka f

UNP Kegalle District parliamentarian and economist Kabir Hashim says the anti-Muslim campaign carried out in the country is politically motivated to divert people’s attention from the Government’s failures. He observed that the current anti-Muslim campaign would be detrimental in the sense that the international community has already made many allegations against the Government on its inaction to protect the democratic rights of citizens. Criticizing the Muslim political leaders in the Government, Hashim says, “Muslim M