Siri Ranasinghe News Today

By Lynn Ockersz A new-born girl child, Left alone and found crying, In desolate provincial wilds, Seems yet another story, Of family planning gone awry, But this time around, There’s more to it than that, Because the lights are going out, One by one in the Isle’s hearths, As the economy grinds to a halt, […]

The 51 sessions of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council is underway. Sri Lanka is again in the focus with Western powers and their lackeys targeting the war-winning Sri Lanka military. Successive Sri Lankan governments, including the incumbent administration, failed to address core issues. Their failure to counter accusations that over 40,000 Tamil civilians […]

By Kapila Bandara Relative shortages of the low-grade paper, called newsprint, used by newspaper publishers, and price inflation, have regularly emerged to haunt the print industry. Back in 1951, such a deficit drew the attention of the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which adopted a resolution, proposing solutions and asking the main consumers to cut