Fidel Castro has broken his silence over President Obama's Cuba visit in a damning letter published in state-run newspaper Granma.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena had promised progress regarding Tamil political prisoners, although we’ve seen little of that. Unfortunately, the president’s dithering project has continued — with no end in sight.

The former prime minister Tony Abbott has excused war crimes in comments that the Sri Lankan government’s actions in its civil war were “probably unavoidable”, Tamil refugee advocates have said.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday commenced its first auction of a $12.5 million tranche to channel $ 100 million of total funds to boost Lankan SMEs.

Northern province chief minister C.V. Vigneswaran has questioned as to why only the murders of four Sinhala journalists were being investigated, while the killings of more than 36 Tamil journalists were being forgotten, according to gagana.lk.

Gender activist - Bhoomi Harendran questions how gender and sexuality could affect someone being engaged in a profession.