Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 12:00-1:15pm
Sponsored by the Harvard International Negotiation Project (HINP), co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative
'Negotiating Identities and Emotions: Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka'
A Guest Lecture by:
Her Excellency Chandrika Bandaranaike...
Norway has granted 2.5 billion NOK (US $366million) to Sri Lanka from 1997-2009, a report issued by Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) stated.
The money has been provided to the Sri Lankan government, Norwegian and Sri Lankan non...
An army deserter is alleged to have led a 15-member gang that raided a huge construction site at Kurunegala on Thursday and got away with expensive telephone cable wire worth Rs. two million, police said.
They said the army deserter was arrested 24 hours after the heist and some half the...
A Sri Lankan commission that probed alleged abuses during the island's civil war says it will present its final report in a week.
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission said Friday it will conclude its work on Tuesday and present its report to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Nov...
The US has drafted plans to sell “bunker-buster” bombs to the United Arab Emirates in an effort to turn up the heat on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The bunker-busters and other equipment would enable the UAE to target certain structures like bunkers and tunnels, where Iran is...
The Sri Lankan government has continuously misled people over Hambantota Port, the main opposition United National Party (UNP) has said.
Concern has been raised by the UNP over the port's maximum depth of 17m, which it says is not deep enough for unloading larger cargo vessels.
The...
Canada's Shaw Communications says they have upgraded their network to carry 100 Gbps on a single pair of fibre. Previously a single pair of fibre carried 10 Gbps.
Shaw Communications currently offers residential customers 250 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 50 Mbps, 25 Mbps, 7.5 Mbps, 1 Mbps services.
The...
A teledrama actress involved in a prostitution racket has been arrested by the Mirihana police.
Police said that the actress in her early 20's had claimed that she was involved in prostitution as she wanted to raise money for her father's medical expenses.
Police said that she had acted in...
Sri Lanka's Parliament has passed a law allowing the government to take over private businesses which are deemed to be underperforming.
Opposition parties opposed the Legislation, saying the move amounted to nationalization.
Authorities have listed 37 companies to be taken over under the law...
A leading media rights group has said it is appalled to learn that Sri Lanka is blocking several news websites, and it urged authorities to stop, AP reported
Reporter Without Borders issued a statement urging the ministry to lift the block on websites and rescind the new registration...
The main opposition United National Party (UNP) today charged that its official news website ‘Lankawaynews’ had been banned at the time it was being checked out.
UNP parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera told a news conference this web site was among several others that had been recently...
Sri Lanka is granting what amounts to amnesty to 60,000 army soldiers who deserted during the island nation's 30-year civil war against Tamil separatists.
The deserters will be "de-listed," army spokesman Brig. Nihal Hapuarachchi said.
"These are soldiers who had deserted their ranks since...
An opposition parliamentarian has lodged a formal complaint with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) against alleged intimidation by the government.
United National Party (UNP) MP, Anoma Gamage, in her letter to CPA General Secretary Dr William F Shija...
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission has completed its report on the final stages of the war and is awaiting a communication from the President’s Office regarding the handing over of the report.
Lakshman Wickremasinghe the Media co-ordinator for the LLRC speaking to Daily...
Sri Lankan officials have told a U.N. human rights panel that the country's government is taking measures to curb acts of torture by security forces.
A delegation led by Sri Lanka government legal adviser Mohan Pieris has told the U.N. Committee Against Torture that the South Asian nation...
The UK's Channel 4 is to screen a second documentary on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, a week after Britain's media regulator ruled its first was fair and impartial.
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished (wt) has been commissioned by C4 head of news and current affairs Dorothy...
The SL navy denies media reports about Indian fisherman being attacked by its sailors.
Report from PTI
In the second such incident this week, 8 Tamil Nadu fishermen were injured and 13 boats damaged on Tuesday when Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly attacked them near the International...