Miss Sri Lanka first runner-up from Asia in Miss World multimedia challenge

US envoy to Geneva insists Lanka needs foreign judges

The US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Keith Harper, says Sri Lanka must have?foreign judges in the accountability process on the war. Harper, who was involved in talks with the Sri Lankan Government when the resolution on Sri Lanka was drafted before it was submitted and eventually adopted by the UN Human Rights Council last October, said that the?accountability process can be credible only if?foreign judges are involved. “For #SriLanka – credibility of any accountability

26 Jan, 2016

Australia will look to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka

Australia is committed to strengthening the friendship with Sri Lanka?in the years to come. The acting High Commissioner of Australia to Sri Lanka Tim Huggins said that Australia’s?partnership with Sri Lanka is highly valued and an enduring friendship, based on a long shared history of cooperation as Commonwealth and Indian Ocean nations. In a speech to mark Australia Day which falls today,?Huggins said that Sri Lanka and Australia?established diplomatic relations in 1947 and have built strong

26 Jan, 2016

Gnanasara arrested and remanded till February 9

The?venerable Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera was arrested today after he surrendered to the police in Homagama. The Homagama Magistrate issued an arrest warrant yesterday?on the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena, the venerable Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera was produced before the?Homagama Magistrate today and remanded till February 9. The arrest warrant was issued after the monk had allegedly disrespected court during proceedings into the disappearance o

26 Jan, 2016