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The Matara Chief Magistrate today issued an arrest warrant on Southern Province UPFA candidate Krishantha Pushpakumara, popularly known as Raththaran, for failing to appear before the court. […]

Former Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Dikkumburage Kulaweera was produced in Court and remanded on charges of having sexually harassed a 22-year-old Sweden woman at tourist hotel in Pelana, Weligama. […]

Sri Lanka on Wednesday claimed that most of the 47 member countries of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) are under pressure to back a malicious US-sponsored resolution that has called for an international probe into alleged rights abuses during the country’s war with the LTTE, according to international media reports. “Countries have told us […]

Two main suspects in the murder of SP Prasad Siriwardena, the former office-in-charge (OIC) of the Borella Police Station, have been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today, police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. […]

LONDON: Britain will vote for an international, independent investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday it will vote in favour of the resolution on Sri Lanka at the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council that has been moved by the US. […]

President of the Amadyapa Movement, Ven.Dr. Harispaththuwe Ariyawansalankara Thero (74) of the Vipassana Meditation Centre, Colombo passed away at a private hospital after prolonged illness this morning. […]

Five police officers including the officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Giriulla Police Station have been suspended over the unlawful detention of a youth for over a month. […]

Sri Lanka yesterday said it has no plans to release 74 Indian fishermen and the 18 boats seized on Wednesday, before the proposed Colombo Talks next Tuesday (25), despite Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jeyaram categorically stating that there will be no talks if the fishermen are not released. […]

Secretary to the President Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, in a letter to Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, has responded to the accusations put forward by her toward the Government of harassment through illegal surveillance. […]

The Abbott government is resisting a push by its closest allies to establish a United Nations investigation into war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, where Australia has returned more than 1100 failed asylum seekers in the past 18 months. […]

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday said the next round of talks between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lankan fishermen, scheduled for March 25, can take place only if all the Indian fishermen apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy on Wednesday are released. […]

A day after the repatriation of 140 Tamil Nadu fishermen with their 31 boats, the Sri Lankan Navy arrested as many as 75 fishermen with their 18 vessels on Wednesday night. […]