Human Rights Watch urges Sri Lanka to revoke sweeping new order to restrict protest
NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Sri Lankan government to reverse a new regulation that unlawfully restricts protests in large areas…
President Wickremesinghe appeals to diaspora in UK to invest in Sri Lanka
LONDON: President Ranil Wickremesinghe who visited the United Kingdom to attend the funeral ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II had met with the Sri Lankan Diaspora…
Senior medical professionals call for urgent action to address people’s desire for a system change
COLOMBO: Senior medical professionals in Sri Lanka have called for urgent action to solve the shortages of food, fuel, medicine and proposed several measures that…
Sri Lankans in Australians won’t send money to struggling friends and family fearing it will fall into the wrong hands
MELBOURNE: Sri Lankans living in Australia are refraining from sending desperately-needed funds to struggling friends and family back home, fearing money will never end up…
Dr. Shafi returns his salary arrears to the Ministry of Health to purchase medicines
COLOMBO: Dr. Seigu Shihabdeen Mohammad Shafi, a specialist in the obstetrics and gynecology unit of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, who was sent on compulsory leave…
CPA slams state authorities for ‘total paralysis’ and urges public and media to show empathy when reporting murder of nine-year-old girl
COLOMBO: The Child Protection Alliance (CPA) has slammed ‘the total paralysis’ of state authorities over the way they have responded to the murder of a…
‘They could not save their baby’: the human cost of Sri Lanka’s fuel crisis, reports The Guardian newspaper
COLOMBO: It was, said the doctor, an avoidable delay that would haunt these parents for ever. When their two-day-old daughter first refused to eat, then…
UNICEF condemns violence against children during protests in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: In a direct indictment of the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka, UNICEF has condemned the violence against children during ongoing protests. UNICEF said in…
Drop all charges against peaceful protesters, says Amnesty International
BANGKOK: Responding to the news that at least 12 peaceful protesters were unlawfully arrested today by police officers for demonstrating outside the Parliament of Sri…
Sri Lanka baila star Sunil Perera is dead at 68
COLOMBO: In the end, it was only appropriate that Sunil Perera, who had entertained generations of Sri Lankans on the radio and on the dance…