By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 31, 2018, 11:53 pm Criminal liability couldn’t be avoided by ‘private arrangement’ under any circumstances, top constitutional lawyer Manohara de Silva PC said yesterday. There was inordinate delay on the part of the Attorney General in dealing with Jaffna District UNP MP and former State Minister for Child Affairs […]

S. S. Selvanayagam Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General today (30) furnished a draft Rule before the Supreme Court against Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake complaining of him for having committed an alleged offence of Contempt of Court. The Bench comprised Chief Justice Priyasath Dep, Justices Vijith K. Malalgoda and Lalith Dehideniya, who will peruse it […]

Tony Karunanayake Courtesy The Daily Mirror Negombo Magistrate Sajindra Jayasuriya today banned the Kuwaiti couple, who allegedly assaulted Customs officials at the BIA on Friday, from leaving the country. The Magistrate also ordered the couple to appear in the Court on August 10. Five officials of the Customs Department, including a woman, were allegedly assaulted by […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express The anti-Tamil riots in Colombo and several other towns in Sri Lanka which raged for nearly a week in July 1983, were unprecedented in the annals of ethno-communal rioting in the island. But the most disturbing aspect is that the riots’ impact is still being felt. The issues which triggered them are still […]

  Giada Girelli Courtesy Open Society Foundations This summer, Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, defiantly announced that he could end the country’s 42-year moratorium on the death penalty and sign off on the execution of convicted drug traffickers alleged to be running illegal operations from their prison cells. More disturbing, a government spokesperson added that the country will try […]

By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The Hindu priest, who had been charged of aiding and abetting the assassination attempt on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a suicide bombing at Piththala Junction in Kollupitiya in 2006, has been acquitted and released by the Colombo High Court. Colombo High Court Judge Sampath Abeykoon said that it has been […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 25 (Daily Mirror): China will gift a frigate to the Sri Lanka Navy, a top Chinese military official said here on Monday. Addressing a reception held in Colombo on Monday night to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei said […]

By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today The debate about imposing the death penalty has bounced back.  It was triggered by President Maithripala Sirisena’s announcement that he would grant approval to hang prisoners with pending capital punishment and engaged in the drugs trade, while facing a prison term. Buddhist priests vehemently opposed imposing death penalty in […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The British Government this week acknowledged that wartime dispatches from its diplomatic mission in Colombo hadn’t been considered in the preparation of its Annual Human Rights Report 2017. A British High Commission Spokesperson said that the Annual Human Rights Report published on 16 July covered incidents that took place between […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 16 (newsin.asia) – The European Union, Canada and Norway, on Monday expressed concerns over the Sri Lankan government’s intention to resume implementing the death penalty after more than 40 years, a statement from the EU mission in Colombo said. The Delegation of the European Union, the missions of the EU Member […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition today accused Wildlife Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka of harbouring underworld figures. Addressing a news briefing, MP Padma Udhayashantha Gunasekera said two persons named Aruna Attanayake alias Police and Gihan Sandaruwan, who had links with the underworld, were seen at functions attended by Minister Fonseka. Aruna Attanayake […]

Kalathma Jayawardhane Courtesy The Daily Mirror While rejecting media reports that some underworld figures were protected by a Senior Minister, Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka today said those reports were targeted to defame and cause inconvenience to him. Minister Fonseka told a news conference that some media reports had stated that five underworld leaders, whom the […]

Wildlife Minister addresses accusations against him (English)

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Lord Naseby from the British House of Lords calls upon the United Kingdom and United States of America to withdraw their human rights violations motion against Sri Lanka. He stated this joining in a discussion on human rights violation allegations on Sri Lanka ‘At Hyde Park’ program on Ada Derana 24×7. Lord […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror British Baron Lord Naseby said both the UK and the US were guilty of atrocities and that the two countries should inform the UN Human Rights Commission to withdraw the resolution against Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby, the President of the All Party British Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group, said this after reading the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island In May this year, the government gazetted sweeping amendments to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002. The original Act applied only to specified Commonwealth countries and non-Commonwealth countries which have signed the relevant agreements with Sri Lanka but the amendments now before parliament seek […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Vijayakala Maheswaran says that she has decided to resign from her post as the State Minster of Child Affairs, in the wake of her recent controversial statement regarding the LTTE. Speaking during a state event held in Jaffna on June 2, she had said that the LTTE should be resurrected for the […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island July 4, 2018, 10:14 pm “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’ – WB Yeats, The Second Coming Though that may change, this island has so far produced only one movement which qualifies as Fascist by international standards. When the […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island There was no need at all to revive the LTTE terrorist organisation, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday. He said action would be taken against State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran for calling for the revival of the LTTE. Making a special statement in Parliament, the Prime Minister said that what […]

උදයන්ති මුණසිංහ උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම විජයකලා මහේෂ්වරන් ඇමැතිවරිය කළ ප්‍රකාශයට අනුව තවදුරටත් ඇමැති ධුරයේ කටයුතු කිරීමට ඇයට නීතිමය අයිතියක් නැති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් අවධාරණය කළේය. රජයේ කැබිනට් ඇමැතිවරු දෙදෙනෙක් ඉදිරියේ නිල උත්සවයකදී එවැනි ප්‍රකාශයක් කිරීමට තරම් එඩිතර වීම හුදකලාව තක්සේරු කළ නොහැකි බවත්, මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බලයේ සිටින විට මෙවැනි ප්‍රකාශයක් කළේ නම්, වත්මන් […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando July 3, 2018, 11:59 pm Top constitutional lawyer Manohara de Silva, PC, yesterday said that the Attorney General could file an indictment in accordance with Article 157 A against State Minister for child affairs, Vijayakala Maheswaran. President’s Counsel De Silva said so when The Island asked him what action the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran says that the LTTE should be resurrected for the freedom of the Tamil people. If Tamil people want to live freely, the LTTE should raise their hand again, she further stated. She made these comments at a state event held in Jaffna today (02). While […]

කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දේශප්‍රේමය ගැන කතා කරන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‌ෂ හැබෑවටම රටට ආදරය කරන්නේ නම් ඇමරිකානු පුරවැසි භාවයෙන් ඉවත් වන ලෙසට අධ්‍යාපන ඇමැති අකිල විරාඡ් කාරියවසම් අභියෝග කර තිබේ. දේශප්‍රේමය සහ ගෝඨාභයගේ පුරවැසිභාවය අතර ඇත්තේ කවර සම්බන්ධයක්‌ද යන්න අපට නොවැටහේ. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‌ෂ ඇමරිකාවේ මෙන්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේද පුරවැසියෙකි. එසේම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට මහත් සේ ආදරය කළ […]

රුවන් ජයවර්ධන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  ඉකුත් සතිය විරුවන් දෙදෙනකු පිළිබඳ මුළු රටම කතාබහ කළ සතියක්‌ විය. ඉන් එක්‌ විරුවෙක්‌ වූවේ තම ජීවිතය නොතකා කොල්ලකරුවන් පිරිසක්‌ අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට යැමේදී එම කොල්ලකරුවන්ගේ වෙඩි පරහට ලක්‌ව මියගිය පොලිස්‌ කොස්‌තාපල්වරයා ය. මාතර නගර මධ්‍යයේ පිහිටි ස්‌වර්ණාභරණ සලක්‌ කොල්ල කෑමට පැමිණි සැකකරුවන් පිරිසක්‌ ලුහුබැඳ යැමේදී වෙඩි පහරකට ලක්‌ව මිය යන එම […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 1 (ECONOMYNEXT):  Sri Lanka will move its southern naval headquarters to the Hambantota port which is leased to a state-run Chinese firm under a billion-dollar deal, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said. Wickremesinghe has made it clear in his talks with Chinese leaders that Hambantota port will not be allowed to […]

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The 21 km-long Puthukkudiyiruppu-Oddusuddan road progressing through the hinterland of North-Eastern Mullaitivu District, links Puthukkudiyiruppu on the A-35 Paranthan-Mullaitivu highway and Oddusuddan on the A-34 Mankulam-Mullaitivu highway. It was along this road that a trusted deputy of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed by the […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana People’s lives are more insecure now than when it was the LTTE war times, says Joint Opposition MP Shehan Semasinghe. He said this at a press conference held in Colombo, today (28). He also said that the current government is following a lazy policy regarding the underworld and that 15 murders have […]

lanka C news මාතර නිලේකා ජුවලරි මංකොල්ලය සදහා කොල්ලකරුවන් රැුගෙන ආ ගිනි අවිය ඇමතිවරයෙකුගේ ගිනි අවියක් බව ඔප්පු වී ඇතැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මහින්දානන්ද අලූත්ගමගේ මහතා පවසයි. මෙම ගිනි අවිය අයිති ඇමතිවරයා කවුදැයි වහා හෙලි කරන ලෙස පොලිස්පතිවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. https://youtu.be/gAAnLilkX1o

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | SP LOGANATHAN Rameswaram: Less than 24 hours after a huge cache of ammunition was stumbled upon at the backyard of a house in the coastal fishing hamlet of Anthoniyarpuram near Thangachimadam in Rameswaram on Monday night, there was renewed hectic activity at the spot on Tuesday with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) […]

Press Trust of India  Rameswaram: A Sri Lankan national, was arrested at Uchipuli Valangapuri coast near Rameswaram while two others escaped into a nearby forest, police said on Wednesday. Sagaya Stephen from Thalaimannar was seen moving around in suspicious circumstances near the coast last night along with two others when he was arrested, ‘Q’ Branch inspector […]