By Patali Champika Ranawaka “There is now an attempt at social imperialism to impose social values…” Yoweri Musevei – Ugandan President, responding to Western criticism and threats to impose sanctions on Uganda after the President signed a bill that penalised homosexuality. (10 March 2014).
ලන්ඩන් නුවර ශ්රී ලංකා ජනහඬ පදනමේ සාමාජික පිරිසක් පසුගියදා එම පළාතේ බ්රිතාන්ය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් වන විරේන්ද්ර ශර්මා සහ සීමා මල්හෝත්රා හමුවී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන දේශපාලන හා සමාජීය තොරතුරු පිළිබඳ දීර්ඝ සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වනු ලැබූහ.
A Malaysian passenger plane carrying 239 people, including 227 passengers and 12 crew members, has lost contact with air traffic control after leaving Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, the carrier said Saturday.
Sri Lanka has expresses its strong reservations on the misplaced reference in the Annual Report to the Secretary General’s Internal Review Panel (IRP) report on Sri Lanka including provision of link to the report in a footnote, in the context of prevention. We note however that the report relevant to the subject at hand is Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 (Xinhua) — A Malaysian passenger plane carrying 239 people, including 227 passengers and 12 crew members, has lost contact with air traffic control after leaving Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, the carrier said Saturday.
President J.R. Jayewardene, whatever his faults, was not without wisdom. At a time when non-alignment was a buzzword, he remarked that there were only two non-aligned nations in the world and they were the United States and the Soviet Union. Once the Soviet Union disintegrated, only the US which was the sole remaining superpower, remains Read More
By Shamindra Ferdinando Arift has emerged in the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) with one of the most prominent Northern Provincial Council members, Ananthi Sashitharan publicly accusing TNA National List MP, M.A. Sumanthiran of having deprived her of an opportunity to address UNHRC members at a recent crucial meeting in Geneva due to her alleged past Read More
By Zacki Jabbar, Describing Human Rights as an issue that all countries were faced with, the visiting Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that the real problem lay with the West’s attitude.
මීට වසර 16 කට පෙර එනම්, 1998 මාර්තු 05 වන දා කුරිරු එල්ටීටීඊ ත්රස්තයන් විසින් කොළඹට එල්ල කළ 21 වන ප්රහාරය දියත් කළේය.
Minister of External Affairs and Leader of the Sri Lanka delegation Prof. G.L. Peiris, delivering the National Statement at the High Level Segment of the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 5 March 2014, rejected the Report of the High Commissioner in its entirety, saying it was fundamentally flawed and Read More
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