Upuldeniya appointed new Commissioner General of Prisons

Miss Sri Lanka confident ahead of Miss World pageant final

By Easwaran Rutnam Miss Sri Lanka, Sade Greenwood, is confident ahead of the Miss World pageant final set to take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico tomorrow (16th March). Sade Greenwood is among the 40 contestants picked to attend the pageant final in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Speaking to Colombo Gazette before leaving for the finals, Sade Greenwood said that she will use the opportunity as Miss Sri Lanka for Miss World to promote her Beauty with a Purpose project ?Think Blue, Go Green?. The proje

14 Mar, 2022

JVP youth seek support for protest on Friday

Youth attached to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) have called on the youth in the country to take to the streets on Friday and protest against the Government. The JVP affiliated Socialist Youth Union said that the protest will commence at 10am at the technical junction in Maradana on Friday. National Organiser of the Socialist Youth Union, Eranga Gunasekara, told reporters today that the situation in Sri Lanka is expected to get worse in April. Gunasekara said that successive Governments

16 Mar, 2022

China supplies arms to Myanmar?s military junta to kill civilians

Geneva [Switzerland], March 12 (ANI): Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur, in his report to the UN Human Rights Council recently identified countries, including China, which have supplied weapons used against civilians since Myanmar?s military coup. The independent expert appealed to weapons-exporting nations to suspend their arms sales and urged to convene an emergency session of the Security Council to debate and vote on a resolution banning those arms transfers that Myanmar?s military use

15 Mar, 2022