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Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Manjula Fernando The decision to defer the human rights report on Sri Lanka by six months by UN Human Rights High Commissioner Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, received mixed reactions f ...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015 India is Sri Lanka's closest neighbour. The relationship between the two countries is more than 2,500 years old and both sides have built upon a legacy of intellectual, cultural, religious and ...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Kalyananda Godage Our relations with China go back to more than a thousand five hundred years. We do have a deep-rooted relationship based on trust and mutual interests. In recent times we ...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015 The Government has the right to halt any project if necessary to ensure that any environmental risks and hazards are adequately dealt with, the country's new environment regulator head told t ...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Uditha Kumarasinghe No more blowing trumpets, no more singing hosannas excepting that a new media culture has seen the light of day. Any political party can reach out to any state media an ...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Chandani Kirinde When the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Amendment) Act was taken up in Parliament for debate on Tuesday, both Government and Opposition legislators welcomed the new laws ...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By S. Rubatheesan Navy now looks on while Indians raid our fish bank, say locals Suppaiyah Yogarasan, 58, from Myliddy Jaffna is looking for work as a labourer in order to support his eight-me ...