Over 400 people confirmed as contracting coronavirus in Sri Lanka

Snowden seeks help for Lankan family who helped him

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has made a Christmas request to his Twitter followers to help the refugee families, including a family from Sri Lanka, living in Hong Kong that sheltered him after he left the US and while he worked to expose the scope of the National Security Agency’s information-gathering, sputniknews.com reported. A fundraising effort was launched earlier this month for the individuals that helped Snowden. Their lawyer says the Hong Kong government has been retaliating against hi

26 Dec, 2016

Sumanthiran says SIS was accused of killing Raviraj

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian and senior human rights lawyer M.A. Sumanthiran says the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Attorney-General?s Department had found evidence pointing to the involvement of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) in the assassination of former Parliamentarian Nadaraja Raviraj. Additionally, the public prosecutor?s indictment accused some ?persons unknown to the prosecution? of being involved in the murder. ?So it was obvious that a few junior

26 Dec, 2016

Religion most precious guiding light says President Sirisena

Religion is one of the most precious guiding lights of the human civilization, President Maithripala Sirisena said in his Christmas message today. He said religion makes people show compassion and kindness to others and be empathetic towards others. “Over 2,000 years ago, the Jesus Christ was born into this world in an era when immorality, chaos and cruelty was the order of the day. Since then, the new religious vision that emerged centering a humble dwelling shines eternally as a mark of huma

24 Dec, 2016