By Rathindra Kuruwita The detection of 106 COVID-19 cases through random PCR testing along the Hatton-Colombo road had again proved that the Western Province was not the only hotbed of COVID-19, President of the College of Medical Laboratory Science, Ravi Kumudesh told The Island yesterday. PHI Ambagamuwa, K. Kamadewan said that those cases had been […]
As part of India’s commitment to maintaining high serviceability of weapons equipment provided by the government of India to Sri Lankan armed forces, an Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport on Jan. 10 with 341 Indra Radar Spares worth LKR 200 million to augment maintenance support for four INDRA Mk-II […]
By Ifham Nizam Chief Incumbent of the Bellanwila Raja Maha Viharaya Ven. Bellanwila Dhammarathana Thera yesterday said some animal lovers had dragged in Rohitha Rajapaksa to carry out a vicious campaign against one of the most popular temples in Sri Lanka. The Nayake Thera told the media yesterday at his temple in Bellanwila: “We have […]
UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday that the government was begging money from businessmen to import the COVID-19 vaccine. Addressing a meeting of UNP youth members at Nugegoda, the former Prime Minister said that the government had asked for USD 10 million from exporters to buy the vaccine. “Why the government has to go […]
Three Tamil political parties represented in Parliament backed by several other civil society groups, have urged the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to set up an evidence gathering mechanism, similar to the International Independent Investigatory Mechanism (IIIM), in relation to Syria, established as a subsidiary body of the UN General Assembly, with a strict time frame of 12 months duration to investigate Sri Lanka war crimes.
The following is the text of the letter addressed to UNHRC members by the TNA, TNPF and TMTK: “We, the elected representatives of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, leaders of Tamil national political parties, members of the Tamil victim communities and Tamil civil society organizations write this letter in the lead up to the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) when the situation in Sri Lanka is to be evaluated. We note that within a week of the end of the armed ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, a joint commu