MR act proves no justice in SL-SF

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has vowed to conduct the long overdue provincial elections in its war-torn north in September as he toured the former LTTE strongholds, promising to restore everything destroyed in the region during the three-decade long ...

In a bid to woo Lankan Tamils, President Mahinda Rajapaksa today toured the former LTTE strongholds in the country's north ahead of the planned election in the region.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa had told a special meeting at Temple Trees yesterday that the North-Western Provincial Council member, who forced a female teacher to kneel because she had told the politician's daughter to lengthen her uniform, should ...

At UNESCO in Paris: The following is the special address made by Chamal Rajapaksa, MP, Speaker of Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka at the inaugural session on Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Reconciliation Through ...

Since a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil issue "cannot be imported", all political parties must join hands to find an all-inclusive settlement, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told visiting BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, here today. "We cannot import a ...

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stated that electing a Northern Provincial Council (NPC) under the 13th Amendment would pose a threat to the security of the entire country. He has opposed the holding of an election as the Tamil National ...

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday declared open the newly constructed Club House in Uswetakeiyawa and launched its website, www.clubhouse.lk. It is the latest addition to the umbrella brand Malima which includes Light House Galley ...

In the backdrop of recent tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday said the island's majority community had never indulged in extremism and that it was time to forge communal harmony. "Buddhists and monks have ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa country's Buddhists had never indulged in extremism. Speaking at an event in Nagollagama on Sunday evening, the President said, Maha sangha and Buddhists have never been extremists. Recalling the massacre of Buddhist ...