Court rejects request to appeal against Gnanasara’s sentence

UN insists Sri Lanka must comply with UN policy on troops

The United Nations has insisted that Sri Lanka?must comply with UN policies for Sri Lankan troops to be deployed on peacekeeping operations. Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary?General told reporters that as of the past week, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka was conducting an additional tier of vetting for 49?Sri Lankan officers who have been already deployed to the UN Mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL. He said the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is undertaking their vettin

17 May, 2018

SLFP to restructure and appoint new office bearers

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has decided to restructure and appoint?new office bearers. As a first step the SLFP Central Committee has decided to appoint new office bearers temporarily on June 3rd. SLFP Parliamentarian Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that new, permanent?office bearers will be appointed in September. The move comes weeks after a group of 16 SLFP members split from the Government and sat with the opposition in Parliament. The SLFP members who left the Government called fo

17 May, 2018

NPC Minister wants NPC flag to fly at half-mast tomorrow

Northern Province Minister of Education?Dr K Sarveswaran has called on schools in the North to fly the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) flag at half-mast tomorrow as a mark of respect to the Tamils killed during the war. In a media statement Sarveswaran said that the NPC is seen as a body which upholds the rights of the Tamils and so it is only right that the NPC flag fly at half-mast tomorrow as a mark of respect to the Tamils killed during the final stages of the war. He also urged schools

17 May, 2018