Srilanka is facing the heat at the united nations human rights council over human rights violations during the civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). And ahead of that crucial vote at UNHRC, the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa spoke with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking India support the telephonic conversation took place at the request of Sri Lanka which included discussion on the COVID-19 crisis and UNHRC.

Sri Lanka seeks India's support ahead of UNHRC vote

Sri Lanka has appealed against a judgement by British's appeal commission which has delisted the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as the terrorist organization.

Sri Lanka appeals against UK tribunal's judgment which delists LTTE as terror group

Warning against the emergence of a "Muslim Prabhakaran", Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has called for unity among all communities in the country which saw the worst terror attack on Easter Sunday.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena warns against emergence of a 'Muslim Prabhakaran'

The UN leadership strongly condemned the string of attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that killed 290 people and injured more than 500 others, with the chief of the world body Antonio Guterres saying he was "outraged" by the devastating blasts.

United Nations leaders strongly condemn multiple blasts in Sri Lanka

Seven persons, including a former councillor, were arrested on Monday in Sri Lanka for planning to publicly commemorate slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's 64th birth anniversary, police said.

Seven held in Sri Lanka for planning to commemorate slain LTTE chief's birth anniversary

50 Sri Lankan Tamil men had said last week that they were raped and tortured by Lankan authorities on the suspicion of being members of the LTTE -- seven years after the end of the civil war

Tamil torture wounds may have been self-inflicted: Lord Naseby