Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan and the party’s national list MP M A Sumanthiran held talks with Rapp, the US Ambassador at Large on Global Criminal Justice who is on a 4-day visit to the [...]

"The US has got busy collecting signatures to move the resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council session in March", Wimal Weerawansa, the minister of engineering services and construction told a public gathering at Matale in the central province.

"They (US) will frame charges against Sri Lanka for [...]

"Talks have been positive", Anoma Fonseka the wife of the former Army chief told reporters.

Despite speculation that Fonseka might be released on a pardon from president Mahinda Rajapaksa marking the independence day yesterday, the former Army chief continues to serve his prison terms.

Fonseka, 61, was jailed for 30 [...]

Human rights envoy and minister Mahinda Samarasinghe slammed international rights groups for what he called were attempts to slander the image of Sri Lanka for political gain. Samarasinghe said the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has commenced a [...]

Gunaratna Weerakoon, the minister of resettlement told reporters that the resettlement process had made commendable progress, and that over 700,000 had been already resettled. "Since the end to the war we have successfully resettled 724,135 people or 216,412 families," Weerakoon said.

Officials said this included all [...]

He will gift medical equipment to the district general hospital at Kilinochchi on the third day of his four-day visit after fruitful official talks on Tuesday with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister DM Jayarathna and his counterpart GL Peiris in this scenic capital.

"Krishna will hand over a [...]

The fishermen, hailing from Akkaraipettai in Nagapattinam district, had put to sea in two mechanised boats when they were arrested last night and taken to Trincomalee police station, official sources said today.

Earlier, the Lankan navalmen had allegedly hurled a bomb but it missed the target and the fishermen escaped, fisheries department officials said.

Meanwhile, some 442 fishermen, who had [...]

According to reports, the mob barged into house of the Ramanathaswamy Temple priest and pelted stones and slippers, when they learnt that Tirukumaran Natesan, husband of Sri Lankan MP Nirupama Rajapaksa, was going to perform a ritual. [...]

Police said M Ahsan Mohamed (26) of Kandy district in Sri Lanka had been in India for over three years after expiry of his tourist visa.

He had come to the airport here to board a flight to Colombo on Sunday when immigration officials detained him for forgery after cross-checking with their Chennai counterparts. [...]

A decision in this regard was taken at an emergency meeting of fishermen’s associations, which urged the Centre to take steps to release all the fishermen, B Seshuraja, District Secretary of Tamil Nadu Coastal Mechanized Boats Fishermen Association and Emerit, leader of Rameswaram Fishermen Welfare Association told reporters here.

They also urged both Sri [...]