A Sri Lankan has been tested positive for COVID-19 as the number of cases worldwide continues to soar.
According to a top official attached to the Ministry of Health the patient is a tour guide who was engaged in a...
Sri Lanka’s first local COVID-19 patient is currently isolated and being treated at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, as the country has taken serious initiatives to tackle the killer-virus.
Speaking to Counterpoint, Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera said that all visitors,...
Issuing a gazette notification President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dissolved the parliament with effect from midnight yesterday (02).
Accordingly, the general elections will be held on April 25.
The gazette notification was issued as soon as the parliament completed four and half years...
A group of young politicians want to distance themselves from the massive disinformation campaigns that take place during elections.
Unveiling “The Truth Square – Trap Disinformation” at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo on February 27, the group told...
Power outages experienced in many parts of the country of February 3 this year were not due to an emergency situation. Instead, it was of the manual rotational load shedding type Counterpoint learns.
This is the finding of a committee...
The warring factions of the UNP are said to have agreed to contest the upcoming general election under the Swan symbol of the New Democratic Front (NDF) as the party leadership is determined not to allow the new alliance...
Is it a human right or a human responsibility to ensure that no person is marginalised owing to physical or intellectual disabilities, just as much as inclusiveness must extend to all other diversities such as race, religion, colour or...
Twelve rock quarries in the Manilla Gama area are causing environmental damage in Dodamgoda, Kalutara, says the Centre for Environment and Nature Studies (CENS), in a complaint to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL).
The complaint to the...
Undeterred by attempts to halt sex education in schools by some sections of society, an outline for a national policy framework to introduce the topic at all age groups of the student population took shape on Monday, February 17th....
“I am designating Shavendra Silva making him ineligible for entry into the U.S. due to his involvement in extrajudicial killings during Sri Lanka’s Civil War. The U.S. will not waver in its pursuit of accountability for those who commit...
In an interesting turn of events replete with irony, it has now been revealed that before the abortive Oct. 2018 constitutional coup, the then President Maithripala Sirisena had wooed not only Sajith Premadasa but also another prominent UNPer before...
An Inspection Panel that examined the Kudawa access road to the Sinharaja rainforest has determined that the project does not comply with World Bank (WB) standards for road construction in forest reserves. This was revealed by the Centre for...
