International Religious Freedom Report 2012 – Sri Lanka chapter, released by the US Department of State – Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour on 20 May 2013

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by S.I. Keethaponcalan

In war and in between wars, Sri Lanka's political actors have constantly debated what was popularly called the political package; a political scheme to settle the ethnic conflict. That was because a political ...
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by Gibson Bateman

Not surprisingly, late last month, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) failed to deal with Sri Lanka. As a result, it looks like the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on the island ...
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By Sachin Parathalingam

The controversy surrounding the recently introduced electricity tariff hike reached a climax yesterday, with approximately 21 JVP-led trade unions staging an islandwide strike, demanding the tariff hike be ...
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By Aisha Nazim

The one-day token strike against the recently jacked-up electricity tariffs has received mixed responses. While the government claims the strike did not affect any of the public sectors, trade unions claim otherwise. ...
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By Sithara Pathirana

Opposition political parties and trade unions have been calling the workers, in both public and private sectors, to engage in a massive strike against the recently introduced electricity tariff hike on 21 May, ...
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By Chrishanthi Christopher

In recent times, National Freedom Front Leader, and Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities, Wimal Weerawansa, has been vociferously attacking Treasury Secretary, P.B. ...
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BY W. SIRI ANANDA

Minister D.E.W. Gunasekera in an interview with Ceylon Today said the socialist political parties in the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) have been continuously advocating towards ...
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By LANCE RICHARDSON

Vavuniya is the sort of place you go on the way to somewhere else. Though it's in the centre of the North of Sri Lanka – a bindi on the country's forehead – it has the ...
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by David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

Columnist Natalie Brender recently argued that Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper's decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka this November is ...
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A stock of goods including shoes, cigarette lighters, gloves and other items that had been imported from China has been seized by Customs Officers during a ...

Minister of Petroleum industries Anura Priyadharshana Yapa says Sri Lanka does not import crude oil from Iran since mid 2012 following the US ...

Cabinet allocates Rs 300 M to provide cash incentives instead of supplying cattle feed to dairy farmers to promote dairy industry. 

Mounting pressure on the Centre to retrieve Katchatheevu and redraw the maritime boundary with Sri Lanka, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said that ...

Minister C.B. Ratnayake has expressed his gratitude to all Private Bus Associations for the contribution made for the maintenance of the day to day ...

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) yesterday accused the government of not making sufficient effort to 'reconnect with the Tamil people' after the end of the ...

Health Minister, Maithripala Sirisena, will be using an armoured vehicle during his visit to Geneva to participate in three health conventions.

Vanni District Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian, Siva Shakthi Anandan, was interrogated by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) ...

The involvement of the Indian Government in the Sampur Coal Power Project can be attributed to the role played by the Chinese in the Norochcholai Power ...

The All Ceylon English Teachers' Union (ACETU) has appealed to President Mahinda Rajapaksa to provide relief to the working class by at least reducing the ...

Five suspects including an underworld kingpin, 'Navy Ruwan,' were apprehended by a team of officers of the Special Operations Unit of the Mirihana ...

A woman has fallen into a well with her three day old male infant in the Anguruwathota area last night, the Police Media Unit told Ceylon Today ...

Union Minister V Narayanasamy today said that only the Congress party is "genuinely" interested in ensuring welfare of the Tamils in Sri ...

The token strike that was held today with the participation of several trade unions was successful, Trade Union activist and former JVP Parliamentarian ...