The Attorney General (AG) will seek clarification from the Supreme Court on the scope of the interim order issued by the court preventing the arrest of former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The AG will make […]
A van driver has today been jailed for four years after admitting knocking down and killing a jogger. Shamugarasa Vinayagasivampillai had worked a 12-hour night shift when his Nissan Primastar van left the road and […]
CID informed the Galle magistrate court today (21st May) that Avant Gard established under the Rakna Lanka Company which was managed under the direct supervision of former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapakshe, has deposited a large […]
A reputed Sri Lankan civil lawyer and presidents counsel Romesh De Silva has been appointed as the Sri Lankan high commissioner to the United Kingdom. His appointment has been certified by the High Post Committee […]
(Lanka-e-News- 22.May.2015, 6.20PM) The extremists of the south who are giving a mischievous twist even to the public protests sparked following the recent gang rape and murder committed on a school girl of Poonguditheevu Island […]
What Happened In Jaffna Should Not Stay In Jaffna By Yudhanjaya Wijeratne – “The fighting’s started in Jaffna again,” said the woman at the shop. I knew the incident she was speaking of: a hartal, […]
A video showing a senior Sinhala police officer using racially motivated and disrespectful language at an elderly Jaffna Tamil woman is going viral on Facebook. The incident took place in Jaffna during the protest against the rape and murder […]
Dean of the Colombo Law Faculty, Dr. V.T. Tamilmaran regretted that certain politicians were trying to tarnish his image by unnecessarily dragging him into the schoolgirl S. Vithya’s brutal murder in Punkuduthivu. Tamilmaran told Ceylon […]
COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka has seen a reduction in ethnic chauvinism, political repression, a re-balanced foreign policy since elections in January but economic liberties have to improve to allow the country to progress, a […]
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today accused the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) of backing regime change in Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa said that the US, EU and Britain had often accused his Government […]
