Category: Local News

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister says the government has rejected a request from the Swiss Embassy to allow one of its employees to be flown out for medical treatment after a group allegedly abducted and threatened her to disclose embassy information.

The Swiss Federal Court has ruled that the Tamil Tigers are not a criminal organisation and has acquitted 12 people of charges filed by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG).

Clarifying the UK’s Conservative Party’s stance with regard to its reference to Sri Lanka in its election manifesto, senior party officials said the reference is applicable only to the Middle East but not to Cyprus or Sri Lanka.

Former COPE Chairman, MP Sunil Handunnetti has instructed that the Central Bank bond scam forensic audit reports be kept at the COPE Secretariat as a confidential report until the next COPE Committee is established.

Switzerland has reiterated that its Colombo mission’s employee abducted on Nov 25 couldn’t be questioned on health grounds.

UPFA Ratnapura district MP Ranjit Soysa has passed away at the age of 57.

Colombo High Court has released the former Civil Aviation Minister Piyankara Jayaratne from all charges in the case over SriLankan Catering Limited.

Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara have been further remanded till December 17th by Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage today.

The Ministry of Finance stated that the government’s new measures to re-engineer Sri Lanka’s tax Policy framework were with a view to creating a simple, transparent and efficient tax system that will promote self-compliance and easy tax administration.

Special Investigative Division of the CID yesterday informed Colombo Chief Magistrate, Lanka Jayaratne that it was investigating the allegations made by Anthony Douglas Fernando and Athula Sanjeewa Madanayake at a press conference organized by former Health Minister, Rajitha Senaratne on November 10.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stressed the importance of finding out those responsible for the collapse of the security apparatus that led to the Easter Sunday attacks in April.

Sri Lanka’s new president has ended the parliamentary session and has set the opening of a new one for Jan. 3.

United National Party Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella says the good governance government was able to strengthen independent commissions through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

India’s Q Branch police seized around 700kg of ganja, worth millions of rupees, from three men near Mannargudi in Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Sunday. The cannabis was to be smuggled to Sri Lanka through the sea route.

DMK leader M K Stalin expressed shock at Sri Lankan President’s response to demands for devolution of political powers to the island nation’s Tamil minority in his recent media interviews and promise to instead focus on the development of areas inhabited by them.

Major (Rtd.) Attorney-at-Law Ajith Prasanna commenced a protest outside the Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka a short while ago urging the victim of the alleged threatening incident to give a statement to police.