Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa filed a revision petition in the Court of Appeal today citing a technical issue in the charge sheet filed by the Bribery Commission against them. The petition was filed with the intention of getting Mr. Raja…
Answer 1 of 2: Going to Sri Lanka for 3 weeks nov 19 – dec 10 2018. Have planned an itinerary but want to include Trincomolee and the East cost however I know this is monsoon season. I have been in the east for a couple of weeks during may when it rain…
Sri Lanka Army appoints Court-of-Inquiry to probe grenade explosion in bus. Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 01:46 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Feb 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army has appointed a six-member Court-of-Inquiry to probe Wednesday’s grenade explosion in a passenger bus in …
In his report published ahead of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the “authorities have not yet demonstrated the capacity or willingness to address impunity for gross violations and abuses of international human …
“Sri Lanka failed to follow through on its 2015 commitment to repeal the PTA and replace it with legislation that complied with international standards. The amended Office on Missing Persons Act was passed by Parliament in June. It was signed by the Pr…
Feb 23, Colombo: INTERPOL had issued a Red Notice on former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia, Udayanga Weeratunga as a wanted person by the Sri Lankan authorities, Police Media Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. The Police Headquarters said that the fo…
How aware are the Governments of the US & India that their two envoys are going overboard with or without their knowledge in the interference into the internal affairs of Sri Lanka? An unprecedented number of Indians have been roped into America’s diplomatic service and at times we can but wonder …
The Government is expected to pay US $ 7.5 billion to an Indian company for laundry service of local hospitals, risking the jobs of Sri Lankans even before ETCA was signed, the GMOA said yesterday. Referring to the Sri Lankan delegation which visited I…
Different organisations and groups of “patriotic “ Sri Lankans based in the UK have joined hands to protest against what they say are the “double standards” of the British Government which hastily asked its High Commissioner in Colombo, James Dauris to…
Feb 23, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has moved up four places to 91st from 95th, in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2017 released by Transparency International with the island failing to show significant improvement. The index ranks 180 countries and …