The story of Scuba the fawn who was born last week in the Trincomalee naval dockyard is an uplifting one amidst the scores of stories we hear about the death and destruction that befalls Sri Lanka’s fauna and flora.
Bonding:...
Sri Lanka is looking for support from about 15 of the 47 members of the UNHRC for its defiant stand against violations of its sovereignty by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.
Colombo, January 31: Sri...
“I urge the international community to listen to the determined, courageous, persistent calls of victims and their families for justice, and heed the early warning signs of more violations to come,” UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet hassaid, calling...
Sri Lankan billionaire to contest for California GovernorSri Lankan born Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya is to contest for Governor of California. Media reports said
Chamath Palihapitiya, billionaire investor and CEO of venture capital firm Social Capital, announced about his intentions to...
The United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet has called for an International Criminal Court investigation into Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict and sanctions may be imposed on military officials allegedly involved in war crimes agency reports said
. “Domestic initiatives...
Sri Lanka is likely to get another 300,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China. According to officials it will come as a donation from China. Meanwhile President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be at the Katunayke airport tomorrow to receive the...
The State Pharmaceuticals Corporation will import Covid 19 vaccines either from China or Russia. Currently government officials are in touch with these two countries to explore the availability.
Since the whole world is now geared towards vaccinating people against Covid...
A writ petition was yesterday filed in Court of Appeal against dumping of waste and filling of lands within the Muthurajawela Sanctuary.
The petitioners Centre for Environmental Justice and its Executive Director Withanage Don Hemantha Ranjith Sisira Kumara filed this...
Revising the existing estate housing scheme for providing more secure residences for the entire estate community.
"The estate housing scheme" for the construction of new houses instead of line rooms for the estate community has been implemented across various methodologies...
Centre for Environmental Justice seeks judicial intervention to draft National Policy on elephants
A petition filed seeking an order in the Nature of the Writ of Mandamus directing the environmental authorities to formulate a National Policy on protection of elephants,...
The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday decided to express their appreciation and gratitude to the government of India for donating five hundred thousand Astra Zenica COVISHIELD vaccines to Sri Lanka.
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Cabinet that the High Commissioner...
Ram Setu has been at the center of debate since 2005 when the UPA government proposed the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project, to build a shipping canal to link the Arabian Sea with the Bay of Bengal. For this, a...
