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A former Sri Lankan Supreme Court judge has been sworn-in as a new Supreme Court judge in Suva.

More focus should be placed on the current situation, with regard to human rights and minority issues, rather than dwelling on the past, the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues of the United Nations Human Rights Council Rita Izsák-Ndiaye has said.

Recent allegations on certain sugar and ethanol sales by Lanka Sugar Company are unfound as due procedures have been followed, said the Secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce T.M.K.B. Tennakoon.

The Badulla area was blanketed by methane gas owing to a fire that erupted in a garbage dump a couple of days ago. A fire erupted in close proximity to a garbage recycling unit carried out by the Badulla Municipal Council.

The U.N.’s expert on minority rights arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday on a ten-day visit to examine conditions on the island nation in the aftermath of its bloody decades-long civil war.

Singer Chillie also known as Thilanka Vidusha was arrested by the Thalangama Police today for the alleged assault of a 57-year-old man last Thursday.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has taken steps to grant Sri Lanka a loan of Rs.46, 622 million or approximately Yen 33,137million, to enable the government to maintain its financial stability, continue its development agenda within the next five years and achieve its development goals.

The amount of territory controlled by the Islamist militant group, the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), has shrunk by 16 percent so far this year, according to new research from IHS Markit.

Sri Lanka recently signed agreements worth USD 10 million with two companies to produce drugs in Sri Lanka.

The Indian Union Power Ministry is considering laying a sub-sea power cable to transmit power from India to Sri Lanka, said a senior Indian Ministry official.

A dreaded Pakistani terrorist linked to the 2009 attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore was killed in a joint operation by Afghan—US special forces in Afghanistan bordering Pakistan, a media report said on Sunday.

A group of men reportedly led by a son of VVIP had allegedly assaulted security personnel at a leading night club in Colombo when they were denied entry to the club in the early hours on Saturday, informed sources said.

The selection of a name for the new party to be formed under the leadership of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa is to be completed by next week sources close to the joint opposition said.