The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka has gathered momentum in proportions not seen earlier and available reports indicate that out of a population of 6000 Wild Elephants-recorded between 2014 until March 2021- Sri Lanka has lost 2087 Elephants an

Sri Lanka commenced its COVID vaccination programme with much fanfare last January. Frontline healthcare workers....

Last year, in November, local teachers of a leading international school in Colombo sent a petition to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over alleged discriminatory treatment being meted out to them.

Two years after the Easter Sunday carnage people are left with false hopes and promises. Abrupt compensation schemes, commissions and reports have led to dead ends. Even after arresting 676 people in relation to the deadly series of attacks the gover

Sinhala cinema’s pioneering director Lester James Peries is the Sri Lankan filmmaker I like, admire and respect most.

This year marks two years since the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka in which over 260 people were killed, including some tourists.

Consumers are in a quandary wondering how they could possibly fry the kavum and kokis this festive season with the unhealthy coconut oil....

It is a fool’s errand to make-believe that the UN Human Rights Council Resolution titled, “Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka”, and adopted last week would help promoting human rights in the country.

One of the not-so-surprising decisions taken by the present Government was to withdraw from co-sponsoring the landmark United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution 30/1.

Since the invention of the Small Pox vaccine by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796, vaccines have saved millions of lives that would have otherwise perished because of infections.

Sri Lanka’s tuskers are a rarity with only 7% of male elephants on the island carrying tusks. Every individual animal is precious.

Those with a skewed walk habitually check if we are walking straight,” read the slogan detached from the Lunugala-Colombo bus....

A section of Sri Lanka’s nature-loving fraternity gathered at the Vihara Mahadevi Park last Friday to express their concerns concerning the ongoing....

The final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Easter Sunday attacks was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the Chairman of the Commission, Supreme Court Judge Janak de Silva at the Presidential Secretariat on

19-year-old Bhagya Abeyratne made headlines last week over a statement made during the ‘Sirasa Lakshapathi Programme’ which is aired during weekends on Sirasa Television.

Fifty eight (58) days have lapsed since farmers in Walsapugala, a grama niladhari division in Hambantota launched a satyagraha to call upon the government to protect their paddy lands. The human-elephant conflict (HEC) is a threat they have lived wit

On March 5, a group of journalists and a human rights activist went to Iranaimathanagar shore from which people used to go to the Iranaithivu island by boat. To find out facts behind the islanders’ protest against the burial of COVID-19 victims, th

Reconciliation became a buzz word at the onset of the Yahapalana Regime and several attempts were made to stabilize a transitional justice process.

This year - 2021- Easter Sunday falls on April 4. Two years ago, in 2019, it was on April 21. All of you who are reading this will recall exactly where you were and what you were doing on that fateful day in 2019.

The sport of cricket continues to attract bad publicity and this time its retired cricketer Kumar Sangakkara whose name is linked with a an alleged fraudulent land sale in Sigiriya Mailaththawa area. The story unfolds of how an elderly and ailing cou

Even with 52% women in its population, the majority of Sri Lanka’s women and girls are unable to make themselves productive.....

The International Women’s Day is a much awaited date on the calendar. Various issues regarding women’s rights are openly.....

Participants at a peaceful march organised by Free Women, a leftist women’s movement in a struggle to achieve women’s freedom....

Haven’t we all faced that embarrassment when we have an “accident,’’ “dirtied” our school uniforms, and used the infamous brown paper.....

The mysterious killing of a 30-year-old woman from Kuruwita has spread ripples of shock and fear among the people.

After more than 300 days since cremation was made mandatory for the COVID- 19 deceased, the Government of Sri Lanka reversed the decision through Gazette 2216/38 on February 25, by allowing the burial of those who succumbed to COVID- 19.

This Island Nation blessed with an abundance of coastal stretches has attracted many investors, both local and foreign eyeing to extract.....

Torture and murder at police stations are nothing new in Sri Lankan history. Though many international human rights organizations......

For many right thinking people the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva offer hopes. These hopes are to have a government that’s responsible and accountable.