Three more MPs sworn-in
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Pornography, a cause for social ills?
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:04Hastening to make popular ideologies goes on to show the logic of social thinking in Sri Lanka has become routine, says film critic Bhupathi Nalin.
'Agreed on prioritizing closer economic cooperation'
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:48Minister of Foreign Affairs - Mangala Samaraweera says that they have agreed on prioritizing closer economic cooperation. Germany is Sri Lanka’s fifth largest export market, accounting for nearly five percent of our exports
Friday Forum opposes death penalty
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 11:39The Friday Forum says it is deeply disturbed at the prospect of judicial executions taking place again in Sri Lanka after a gap of nearly 40 years.
Mahinda says no to separate front
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:42An attempt by a group including Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila to contest the provincial council polls under a separate political front has failed due to objections by Mahinda Rajapaksa, ‘Ravaya’ reports.
In Sri Lanka, reconciliation will be tough to secure
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:40By Joseph Dana
When South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) convened for the first time in Cape Town in 1996, the country was well on the road to healing the scars left by the apartheid regime. Black South Africans were emboldened with their successful international campaign to isolate and ultimately dismantle the regime of racial segregation that had governed South Africa since 1948. Nelson Mandela had been elected as president with an overwhelming majority. Nearly 20 years on, the scars of apartheid still run deep.
A consensual healing of Lankan wounds
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:36By Sandhya Jain
As Sri Lanka has admitted that there were likely excesses on both sides, the way forward would be to extend amnesty to all former Tamil Tiger fighters, and to set up a Commission to record real history of the war.
U.S. Embassy Empowers Youth to Improve Local Communities
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:33The United States awarded nearly $150,000 (approximately LKR 21,000,000) to 16 civil society organizations as part of the U.S. Embassy’s annual Youth Empowerment Grants, an innovative way to provide seed funding for up-and-coming groups working on solutions to problems affecting youth across Sri Lanka.
Duties, functions of ministries announced
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:11The duties and functions of government ministries and affiliate institutions were announced in a gazette notification today (22).
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