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By Indunil Usgoda Arachchi
Sixteen Sri Lankan refugee families will return to the country on February 14 facilitated by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). The first group of 34 refugees to return in 2019, will arrive from Madurai, Tiruchirappalli and Chennai on flights UL 138, 132, 122. According to sources of the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Resettlement the group were...
The hunger strike by a group of youth from the estates, near the Colombo Fort railway station from December 19, demanding a Rs. 1,000 basic daily wage for estate workers, was suspended on December 22. This was decided on due to many trade unions supporting the strike launched by the estate youth.
Various other trade unions agreed to support the strike. “We temporarily...
It is nearly ten years since the end of the war against terroism. Yet, we find many who tarry unable to make a living; unemployed and disheartened, blaming the whole world for their misfortunes. However, there are a few who have risen phoenix-like through their own effort. Krishnathas Saajirani is one such woman who built her life from scratch, to become an entrepreneur...
Feeling a stranger in her homeland she treads lightly on life undecided, even confused at times. Young and exuberant, her heart pines for the place she grew up in, where she spent most of her life. This is her story, as well as of many other youth like her.
We met her at Uthayapuram, a small village in Pesalai, Mannar. Neighbours say that she has a strange way of speaking...
After nearly 200 years after the arrival in Sri Lanka, estate workers can still be considered as a community which does not possess the rights and privileges of other ordinary citizens of the country, forcing them to live a miserable life which can only be compared to the conditions of the pre-Independence era. In fact, their grievances are heard only upon signing...
By Indunil Usgoda Arachchi
The age determination results of the sample skeletal remains excavated from the Mannar mass grave are expected to be revealed in...
TNA spokesperson and parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran in response to a report on a statement he made said that action should be...
Several media associations will hand over a petition to the National Police Commission on January 29, demanding punishment for...
There was speculation about the mass graves found at the old Sathosa building premises in Mannar, specially on social media....
Skeletal samples excavated from the recently discovered mass graves below the old Sathosa building in Mannar will be sent for...
Railway trade unions are demanding that action also be taken against passengers who had an altercation with the railway engine...
The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has called for a meeting on November 13 with the Director of Education Anura Abeywardena,...
It has been revealed that of 70 railway engines currently put into operation by the Department of Railways, around 55 engines do...
Sandhya Ekneligoda, wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, has threatened to take a drastic step if justice is not...
A council member at the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has leveled harassment allegations, (including those of a sexual nature)...
The ongoing excavations at the Mannar mass graves will not be affected despite his excavation permit not being renewed, says Prof...
Activists fighting for the release of political prisoners now on a hunger strike, have decided to complain to the United Nations...
The ongoing excavations at the Mannar mass graves will not be affected despite his excavation permit not being renewed, says Prof...
Sandya Eknaligoda, wife of missing journo Prageeth Eknaligoda, vowed to launch a series of protests for 60 days to show her...
Sandya Eknaligoda, wife of missing journo Prageeth Eknaligoda, vowed to launch a series of protests for 60 days to show her...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the appointment of a subcommittee headed by Minister of Higher Education and Cultural...
Mannar Magistrate T. Saravanaraj granted permission to the Chief Judicial Medical Officer in charge of the Mannar mass grave...
T. Saravanaraj, the new Magistrate of Mannar has banned the specialist team in Mannar Mass grave sites from exposing information...
The decision to import chairs for the Western Provincial Council (WPC) at an exorbitant cost of Rs. 81.2 million will be...
All political parties now appear to support the call to hold the upcoming Provincial Council elections under the former electoral...
President Maithripala Sirisena addressing a gathering in Polonnaruwa last evening said that he will not approve a salary hike for...
W.P. Somawardene's Kavi Mal Uyana is a well-written poetry book for children from Grade 1 to 13 as stated by him. The...
Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) said it will take part in a strike action on August 3 in protest of the Sri Lanka-...
As families of the disappeared in the North and the East mark 500 days of continuous protests, disappearances activists organized...
Burning Birds, a local film of international fame, directed by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara is now screened in the Rythma cinema...
Last weekend’s shooting of the main suspect in the Matara jewellery heist while in police custody has brought the subject of...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has begun an investigation into the recent death of a suspect who was in Police...
Funds spent on the construction of the D.A. Rajapaksa Memorial Museum at Weeraketiya, Hambantota by the Sri Lanka Land...