To the outside world, China is a monolith, a dictatorship brooking new opposition whether in word or deed. It is acknowledged as an economic power and a technological giant which has also successfully eradicated mass poverty in a short...
The Gazetted draft of the 22 nd. Amendment (22A) of the Sri Lankan constitution, which will be presented to parliament in the coming week, is a compromise between the interests of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe....
N Sathiya Moorthy
The five-state assembly elections are seen as a now-or-never, no-holds battle for the Congress, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Election Commission has issued show-cause notice to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for calling Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, a panauti (ill-omen via-a-vis...
Sri Lanka was shocked by the suspected rape and suicide of a female teenaged domestic, Ilashini, in MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s residence in Colombo. But Ilashini’s case appears to be an exception in Sri Lanka, going by a survey of...
Women leaders from four provinces in Sri Lanka have urged local government authorities to strengthen efforts to protect women, who have been affected by the country’s economic, political and COVID-19 crises this year.
From March to September, UN Women hosted...
On the face of it, China appears to be shedding its aloofness and trying to create the impression that it is also helping Sri Lanka overcome the current grave economic crisis. It says that it has pumped in US$...
Dr.Rohan Ratnayake of the Sri Lankan National Institute of Mental Health is quoted in the media as saying that 15.6 out of every 100,000 of population in Sri Lanka had died by suicide in 2020, 2021 and 2022. And,...
N Sathiya Moorthy 20 December 2023
Maybe, the need for secrecy may have tied the government's hand from sharing details in Parliament. Still, it should consider the need of sharing the utmost within any consultative committee, so that relative secrecy is...
Colombo, October 31:
The United States, in collaboration with its allies, has been working on developmental projects to give the developing countries an alternative to China’s Belt and Road projects, which according to Western governments, put recipient countries in a...
Colombo, May 10: The three arrests made thus far in the case relating to the bid on the life of the Maldivian Parliament Speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed in Male on May 6, show that Islamic radicalism is...
Colombo, August 20: In March this year, the Sri Lankan cabinet decided to abolish the Quazicourts which are Islamic Shariah courts adjudicating marriage and divorce disputes among Muslims. The Quazi courts were to be substituted by family courts. But...
This statement is made in accordance with rule 153 of the Rules of procedure of the General Assembly.
Under the terms of operative paragraphs 6 and 16 of draft resolution A/HRC/46/L.1/Rev.1, the Human Rights Council would:
(a) Recognize the...
