FILE PHOTO The army intelligence officer arrested in connection with the murder of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickramatunga has been acquitted from all charges and released by the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court. […]

Two Sri Lankans who carried out an “execution-style” murder in retribution for a love affair have been jailed for life terms of at least 17 years. The two men were convicted at a trial in July, with the jury finding them both guilty of what the Crown described as “an execution-style” slashing of the throat […]

Iraq’s Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mr. Nassar al-Rubaie called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning (05th) at the President’s Office. […]

A stock of illegal cigarettes that were sent under the guise of tiles by Sri Lankans working abroad have been seized by The Customs Department. […]

Sri Lanka should be removed from the Commonwealth and the CHOGM shifted to another country, says Vaiko, president of India’s Marumalarchi Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (MDMK). […]

Sri Lanka won an award for Best Travel Destination of Cantonese, based on online voting by the readers of the Southern Metropolis Newspaper. The award was presented to the Consulate General on the opening day of the China (Guangdong) International Tourism Industry Expo 2013 (CITE 2013), a one-stop platform for the travel trade, which took […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s government criticized the U.N.’s top human rights official on Wednesday for calling attention to accusations that police and soldiers had harassed people who met her during a visit to the country’s former war zones. Navi Pillay, ending a mission to assess Sri Lanka’s progress after a 26-year war between the […]

The Thanamalwila police seized around 500kg of marijuana which was being readied for transport in the Arambekema area, police stated. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka, under heavy pressure to end human rights abuses four years after the end of a brutal civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels, said on Tuesday it faced a new threat of terrorism and Muslim extremism. The comments came three days after U.N. Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said people were still suffering […]

Prasanna Vithanage’s seventh feature film Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka (With You, Without You) won the Best Film Award presented by the jury at the 3rd Sakhalin International Film Festival in Russia held from August 23 to 26. […]

Sri Lanka on Tuesday dismissed UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay’s sharp criticism of the country’s human rights record as “prejudiced”. In her statement, Pillay had attacked the Sri Lankan government of becoming increasingly authoritarian and claimed that Sri Lankans who chose to speak to her during her week-long fact-finding mission to the country were […]

Today is the 147th anniversary of Police Service in Sri Lanka.  The British rulers started the Police Service with the objective of maintaining law and order in the country.  Mr. J.W.Cambell took the initiative in this connection. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Navi Pillay must thank her lucky stars that those who garlanded her did not do what they did to Rajiv Gandhi inspite of both he and mother helping LTTE rise to power. That was because LTTE was annihilated by Sri Lanka’s armed forces and the woman who garlanded her […]

Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Dr. P.B.Jayasundera refuting malicious stories being published by certain newspapers that the People Bank is to be privatized, said that fears of privatisation of People’s Bank or for that matter any other state enterprise is unwarranted. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Nalin Hewapathirana The newly constructed Oluvil commercial port and fisheries harbour together with the ice manufacturing plant constructed in the Eastern Province with aid from Denmark have been vested in the public by President Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon on 01 September. Sri Lankan Government in its plans to […]

(Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay hit out against the Sri Lanka government on Saturday, saying that four years after the end of civil war people were still suffering amid signs the country was headed in an authoritarian direction. “It is important everyone realise that although the fighting is over, the suffering is […]