Self-proclaimed ?Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva? remanded

Japan to fund food aid in the North via WFP

The Government of Japan will provide food grant assistance to the value of 240 million Japanese Yen (approximately Rs. 275 million) to the Government of Sri Lanka through the World Food Program (WFP) to support their ongoing emergency program in Sri Lanka including the School Meals Program. The distribution of the food assistance will be supervised by the Government of Sri Lanka. From 2012 to 2014, the Government of Japan provided food grant assistance amounting to 500 million Japanese Yen to t

09 Oct, 2015

EU hails Sri Lanka’s stand against death penalty

The European Union (EU)?today welcomed the announcement by the Minister of Justice?Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha that Sri Lanka would vote in favour of the UN General Assembly?resolution on a moratorium on the Death Penalty. A joint statement issue by the EU in Colombo said that the European Union, Norway and Switzerland oppose the Death?Penalty in all circumstances. The statement noted that the Death Penalty represents an?unacceptable denial of human dignity and violates the right to life universally

09 Oct, 2015

President urges the media to write the truth

President Maithripala Sirisena says when the new Government is working with the media ending the era of disappearances, white vans abductions and interference of any kind, the responsibility of the media is not to isolate the Government politically . He made these observations participating at the 60th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Press Association held at the BMICH today. When the Government ensures the freedom of the press the duty of a journalist is to write the truth without giving any spa

09 Oct, 2015