Courtesy Adaderana Former minister Rishad Bathiudeen has been named as the fifth suspect in the case pertaining to the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker at his residence.  Meanwhile the four suspects including the MP’s wife who were arrested following investigations into the teenage girl’s death have been further remanded until September 06. They were […]

උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීන් මහතා විසින් මරණ තර්ජන කළ බව පවසමින් බන්ධනාගාර වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් බොරැල්ල පොලීසියට පැමිණිල්ලක් කර තිබේ. පසුව ඒ පිළිබඳව වැඩිදුර විමර්ශන සඳහා පොලිස්පතිවරයා විසින්  කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාසය වෙත යොමුකර ඇත. මැගසින් බන්ධනාගාරයේ වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු විසින් ඊයේ (21) එම පැමිණිල්ල කර තිබේ. එම පැමිණිල්ලේ දැක්වෙන්නේ, වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරයේ බෙහෙත් ශාලාව […]

Courtesy Adaderana MP Rishad Bathiudeen is once again under the spotlight after a doctor serving at the Magazine Prison, where the parliamentarian is remanded, accused him of levelling threats against his life. The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) launched investigations into the incident based on a complaint filed by the relevant doctor with the Borella Police. The […]

Courtesy Japan Today TOKYO The family of a Sri Lankan woman who died in March following mistreatment at a Japanese immigration center said she was “treated like a dog” after the government disclosed Thursday security camera footage of her final days. Two weeks’ worth of video footage showing Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, 33, before her […]

Kris Thomas & Pallavi Pundir Courtesy VICE.com Sri Lanka’s court says the politician’s family is powerful enough to influence the investigation. SRI LANKAN PARLIAMENTARIAN WAS NOT AT HOME WHEN THE 16-YEAR-OLD DOMESTIC AIDE AT HIS HOME SUFFERED FROM BURN INJURIES IN JULY 2021. PHOTO BY LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Before she burned to death […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Investigations disclosed that three of the eleven women who had served as domestic workers at MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s residence in Colombo since 2010, have died. The Police launched investigations following the death of the 16-year-old girl who recently died of burn injuries while working at the residence last month. Following the […]

By Major General (Retired) Ranjith Rajapathirana Courtesy Ceylon Today Julie Hathai; 7 July 1915 eventually became a phrase signifying a major calamity. It is one of the darkest days in the annals of history on which date, young Edward Henry Pedris, age 28 years (1887-1915) and a scion of an immensely wealthy elite SinhaleseBuddhist family […]

Courtesy Adaderana A three-member specialist medical team has been appointed to carry out the second postmortem of the teenage domestic worker who died while serving at the residence of MP Rishad Bathiudeen. The team had been named by the Director-General of Health on the recommendations of the Attorney General, Police Media Spokesperson Senior DIG Ajith […]

Courtesy Adaderana A three-member specialist medical team has been appointed to carry out the second postmortem of the teenage domestic worker who died while serving at the residence of MP Rishad Bathiudeen. The team had been named by the Director-General of Health on the recommendations of the Attorney General, Police Media Spokesperson Senior DIG Ajith […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered to remand the wife of former minister Rishad Bathiudeen and three others until August 09 in connection with the suspicious death of a teenage domestic worker who had been employed at their home.  The four defendants, including Bathiudeen’s father-in-law, brother-in-law and the broker who had brought the […]

Courtesy  Hiru News  The four suspects, including Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife, who were arrested in connection with the death of 16-year-old Ishalini who was working as a servant at MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s house, were remanded until August 9. >That was when the relevant case was taken before the Hulftsdorp Magistrate’s Court. Deputy Solicitor General Dilipa Peiris […]

Excerpted from SDIG (Retd.) Edward Gunawardena’s memoirs Courtesy The Island The burning of the Jaffna public library in 1981 is not only a controversial subject, it is a sensitive one. Much has been written on it mainly for propaganda purposes and political advantage. It is significant that nobody who was a witness to the incident […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The brother-in-law of MP Rishad Bathiudeen has been arrested on charges of allegedly sexually abusing a young woman, the Police Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana says.  The incident was brought to light amidst the probes carried out into the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker at the parliamentarian’s private residence. Investigating officers have […]

තිස⁣⁣ර සමල් එප්පාවල  විලච්චිය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ  වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යටතේ පාලනය වන  නවෝදාගම යෝජිත රක්ෂිතයේ, නවෝදාගම වැව් ඉස්මත්තේ වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තු අවසරයකින් තොරව  මහා පරිමාණයෙන් පරිසර හානි සිදු කරමින්  බොරලු කපා ප්‍රවාහනය කළ පුද්ගලයින් පස් දෙනෙකු හා ටිපර් රථ තුනක් හා බොරලු කැපීමට යොදා ගත් ස්කැවේටර් යන්ත්‍රයක් අනුරාධපුර අඩවි  වන  කාර්යාල නිළධාරීන් හා උළුක්කුළම […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අද දහවල් ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය ඉදිරියේ දී ඇවන්ගාඩ් සමාගමේ සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතාගේ වාහනයේ හුළං බැස්සවීමකට ලක්කර තිබේ. සිය වැටුප් වර්ධක ලබා දෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් ගුරු විදුහල්පතිවරුන් ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය ඉදිරියේ පැවැත්වූ විරෝධතාවයක් අතරතුර ඔහු මෙම ගැටළුවට මැදි විය. ඒ අවස්ථාවේ ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය ඇතුළු වීමට පැමිණි සේනාධිපති මහතාගේ වාහනය විරෝධතාකරුවන් විසින් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two special police teams have been deployed to investigate into the death of a 16-year-old girl while working at former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen’s residence, Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara said today. He told Parliament that investigations were continuing and officials had visited the girl’s residence for further investigations. Immediate action will […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Sri Lankan student, detained by the Japanese immigration begged to be released to a hospital for medical care. But, the officials refused. They thought she pretended to be ill to avoid deportation. She died on March 6, 2021 alone in her cell. Protesters holding up pictures of Wishma during a […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 30 individuals who are suspected to have attempted to illegally migrate to a foreign country via sea routes have been taken into custody. The operation was carried out on the 13th and 14th of May by Sri Lanka Navy and the Coast Guard at Samindugama area. Fourteen of the suspects […]

by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4 (Daily Mirror) – Army Commander and Head of the National Operations Center for Prevention of COVID-19, General Shavendra Silva yesterday denied claims that his niece’s wedding had been held on Monday at a leading luxury hotel in Colombo amidst the pandemic, stating this was part of a campaign to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has exhibited information in the Colombo High Court consisting of 800 charges against former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando, in respect of those killed and injured in the Easter Sunday attacks. The AG’s coordinating officer stated that they have been charged in two separate Trials-at-Bar for […]

Courtesy Hiru News A motorcyclist who had arrived at a fruit shop in the Atalugama, Dehiowita earlier today (29) had attempted to snatch the necklace of the shop owner and had tried to flee the premises. However, putting up a fight, she had not allowed him to flee. Afterward, the residents of the area had […]

Courtesy Adaderana he Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has taken measures to seal off a local coconut oil manufacturing company after it was confirmed its products contain the highly carcinogenic substance Aflatoxin. Further, the coconut oil stocks that the company had released to the market have been removed by the CAA. Following the recent controversy concerning […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader and ex-Cabinet Minister Rishad Bathiudeen is a prominent Sri Lankan politician, who is very often in the news for the wrong reasons. The 48-year-old Bathiudeen hailing from Dharapuram in the Mannar District is an engineer by training. Known widely as Rishad, he was first elected to […]

Courtesy BBC Civil rights leader Al Sharpton is calling the verdict a moment of “sunlight”. “Today we can wipe our tears away and fight on for another day,” he just told a news conference. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-56721011 “We don’t find pleasure in this,” he said. “We don’t celebrate a man going to jail. We would rather have […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times The heroin consignment seized by the NCB has a street value of ₹340 crore in India, and ₹1,750 crore in the international market, an official of the federal drug enforcement agency said.By Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday seized nearly 340 kg of heroin from a Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of Deraniyagala Pradeshiya Sabha, who was taken into custody over illegal possession of 98 stolen water meters, has been remanded until the 19th of April. He was produced before Avissawella Magistrate’s Court under the provisions of the Offences Against Public Property Act earlier today (April 17). Deraniyagala Police had received a […]

Courtesy https://www.amnesty.org/ At least 41 Sri Lankan women, the majority of whom are migrant domestic workers, have spent months on end arbitrarily detained at a deportation center in Saudi Arabia, awaiting repatriation to their home country, Amnesty International revealed today. The women have been held at a Deportation Detention (Tarheel) Centre in Riyadh for periods ranging […]