On June 10, the European parliament passed a resolution strongly criticizing Sri Lanka for its human rights record. Among other things, it sought the jettisoning of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and advocated a temporarily withdrawal of the...
The Sri Lanka Medical Association and the Intercollegiate Committee have written to President Gotabaya Rajapakse asking for an extension of the travel restrictions that are currently in place. The Association of Medical Specialists also wrote a similar letter three...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented social and economic challenges, and behind staggering data of contracting economies, people’s lives and livelihoods are on the line. According to the World Bank, in Sri Lanka, over 500,000 people are expected to...
Colombo, June 9: A Hindi-language commercial thriller The Family Man 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, has caused a huge furorein Tamil Nadu because it shows the LTTE as a terrorist organization and not as the vanguard of...
Colombo, June 7: World Oceans’ Day on June 8 this year is of particular significance to Sri Lanka because the theme this time is “Life and Livelihood”. Both life and livelihood had come under severe threat in the island...
On May 20, with the full support of both the Houses of the US Congress, President Joe Biden brought into being a law named “COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act” to address crimes stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular emphasis...
Forced marriages are generally associated with South Asian and Middle Eastern societies and also among immigrants in Europe and North America from these countries. But there is empirical evidence of forced marriages and child marriages occurring among Whites too....
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can be hard to pronounce, difficult to remember, and stigmatize a specific country.
The new system, which was announced Monday, is...
The trading communities of Gujarat and Sindh had been in world trade in African slaves in one way or the other since at least the 15 th., Century. But it was in the 18 thand 19 th Centuries that...
The recent death of 33 year old extremely sick Sri Lankan girl student Wishma Sandamali in a Japanese Immigration Detention Center, allegedly due to callous neglect on the part of the authorities, has highlighted several issues pertaining to human...
Faced with a limited supply of shots and anxious populations waiting their turn, more countries are turning to an initially controversial strategy that’s now been vindicated by scientific studies: doubling or tripling the intervals between the first and second...
Muthuvel Karunanidhi, who led the Tamil Nadu political party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK) with distinction from 1969 till his death in 2018, and who was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu several times implementing many progressive socio-economic reforms, was acclaimed as...
