20A and attempts to limit Auditor General’s powers ; A look...

(By Shalika Wimalasena - Translated by Akitha Wijayasinghe) Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution has proposed a number of critical changes that affect the fiscal control,...

Students with special needs starve amidst an ongoing court case

(By Shalika Wimalasena | Translated by Akitha Wijayasinghe) Due to the arbitrary intervention of the Department of Social Services, the functioning of the Sri Sudarshi...

Corporal No: 01009 Cause of death – Disappearance over a year

Corporal Veena Sittambi Velnayagam, service no 01009, is still missing since 2nd May 2006. Hailing from Anandagama, behind the Salawa Army Camp in Avissawella,...

Freedom to Duminda Silva : Presidential Commission dismisses a seven-judge ruling

The Presidential Commission to Investigate incidents of Political Revenge has recommended to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that former parliamentarian Duminda Silva, who was sentenced to...

Kandy building collapse: residents warn of possible cover-up

Residents of the area say that there is an attempt to cover up or alter facts regarding the incident where a five-storey building collapsed...

The “Indian Moguls” striving to seize the ECT

Resurfacing of the Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) signed back in 2019 between India, Japan and Sri Lanka for the development of the East Container...

Makadure Madush ; killed at the place that made him a...

(By Tharindu Jayawardhana | Translated by Akitha Wijayasinghe) Samarasinghe Arachchige Madush Lakshitha alias Makandure Madush, who was being questioned by the CID on a detention...

Delaying the debate on Colombo Port City Commission Bill an act...

The Supreme Court decision on the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill will be presented to Parliament on the 18th, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena...

Law and its structure: Duminda Silva’s freedom

(By Tharindu Jayawardhana | Translated by Akitha Wijayasinghe) The Sunday Times reported that a group of parliamentarians signed a letter demanding a presidential pardon for...

Prageeth Ekneligoda- 4000 days without justice!

(By Shalika Wimalasena | Translated by Akitha Wijayasinghe) Journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda went missing two days before the 2010 presidential election. That was on the afternoon of January...

Increasingly fenced in Rambaken Oya Milk Farmers hope for indigenous land

(Nethmi Rajawasam and MediaLK Team) Increasingly fenced in Rambaken Oya Milk Farmers hope for indigenous land The milk farmer settlers of Galwala Yaya in Rambaken Oya,...

Petrol prices: LP 92 43.9% increase from Jan 2019 price

(Nethmi Rajawasam) The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has increased the price of petrol (LP 92 Octane) by Rs. 20, from Rs. 157 to Rs. 177...

Questioning of Father Cyril Gamini by the CID continues over 5 long hours

(Nethmi Rajawasam) Reverend Cyril Gamini Fernando who has been accused of defaming the Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Major-General Suresh Salley, arrived at...

Prison Protest Ends : Demands Remain Unanswered

(Nethmi Rajawasam) The protesting inmates serving long-term prison sentences in the Welikada prison on 28th ended their month-long rooftop protest demanding the due reductions and...

Repeal Prevention of Terrorism Act to Meet International Commitments – Human Rights Watch

The Sri Lankan government’s pardon of 16 prisoners convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), however welcome, does not address the urgent need...