Alleging that the death of Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera who headed the Movement for a Just Society Head had not occurred due to natural causes, several well-known Buddhist monks yesterday requested for the appointment of a high powered commission to look into the matter.

Bangladeshi investigators will travel to Sri Lanka, Philippines and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to investigate the theft of $ 81 million from its accounts, a news report on AFP said.

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga says that stealing was the main policy and philosophy of the previous government under Mahinda Rajapaksa and conceded that corrupt individuals still occupy certain sections of the incumbent administration.

The CID has been instructed by a high ranking official of the government, not to take into custody the elephant calves that are being kept illegally at the Colombo Gangaramaya Temple and the Kataragama Temple.

President Maithripala Sirisena has reiterated that he will not have international judges on the bench for the investigation into allegations of human rights violations during the final stages of the war between government troops and the LTTE.

An explosion following by a fire has broken out at a CEB grid substation in Kotugoda, CEB said a short while ago.

Deputy power minister has warned of a “serious security threat” to its electricity grid as engineers finally managed to get the Norochcholai power plant to function fully this morning.

While accusing the government of doing politics of vendetta against him and his family, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that he would not quit politics even if his entire family is imprisoned.

Parliamentarians attached to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s joint opposition yesterday said that they hoped the party wouldn’t take disciplinary action against them for taking part in the rally…

INDIA: Anand police on Wednesday arrested three persons in connection with the kidney racket at Pandoli village in Petlad taluka of the district.

“Though the previous government delivered goods of high costs among the people in the North, there was no smile on their faces….

Four charred bodies including that of two children who are suspected to have died due to electrocution were found by Dehiwela Police inside a house in Kawdana, Dehiwela last morning.

President Maithripala Sirisena has taken a decision to ban importation of cigarettes and tobacco to Sri Lanka 2020 onwards. As doctors we admire this decision a lot, Health Services Director General Dr. Palitha Mahipala stated.

CHENNAI: The state government should exert pressure on the Centre to stop the arrest and harassment of Tamil Nadu fishermen by Sri Lankan naval forces, said DMK chief M Karunanidhi said on Tuesday.