by Our Correspondnent in Colombo A significant disclosure was made during yesterday’s court proceedings into Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, when Additional Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris told the court that military
by Our Correspondent in Jaffna The European Union Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Carmen Moreno, questioned why the Sinhalese-majority South was “anxious” about investment being directed to Northern Sri Lanka, making the remarks
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During the past few months, sealed correspondence has been exchanged between Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Legal Department of the U.S. State Department. Sources at the Foreign Ministry say
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The Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka has issued two statements accusing the European Union of attempting to discredit Russia, rejecting criticism from the EU Delegation to Sri Lanka and alleging that European
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A high-level delegation representing the European Union and several of its member states visited the Chemmani mass grave excavation site on Wednesday to observe the ongoing court-supervised excavation process, following the recent
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Former IGP Chandana Deepal Wickramaratne, 63, succumbed to gunshot injury he received at his residence at Parakrama Mawatha, in Thalahena, Malabe, on 17 July. Wickramaratne, the 35th IGP (25 November, 2020, to
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Court of Appeal on Tuesday heard that the mother of former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay attended church on Easter Sunday
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Internet Media Action (IMA) has condemned the decision to summon two BBC Sinhala journalists before Parliament’s Committee on Ethics and Privileges, describing the move as an attempt to intimidate the media and
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Editorial The reported decision to dispatch officers of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and the Criminal Investigation Department to Australia in connection with the SriLankan Airlines aircraft procurement
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Sri Lanka has deployed military drones and expanded armed forces support in an intensified campaign to combat the country’s worst dengue outbreak in almost a decade after infections surpassed 77,000 and the
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Ongoing protests in India have prompted comparisons with the political upheavals that reshaped governments in neighbouring countries, including Sri Lanka, but market analysts say the demonstrations are unlikely to undermine investor confidence
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Taiwan has suspended the acceptance of tourist visa applications from Sri Lankan nationals with immediate effect, introducing revised visa measures that limit applications to a number of specified travel categories. In a
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Sri Lanka’s Merchant Shipping Secretariat (MSS) has launched an investigation after the captain of an Indonesian-flagged vessel alleged that he paid a USD 5,000 bribe to facilitate what sources described as a
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by Our Correspondent in Sydney A legal dispute originating in Australia has triggered growing concern among members of the Sri Lankan diaspora, who allege that court orders issued in family law proceedings
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“He is a cardinal, isn’t he? Why does he always talk like a politician?” No one could have put it better when describing Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, known simply as
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When Ranil became President and was striving to secure approval for the first IMF tranche, the head of the U.S. CIA secretly visited Sri Lanka. After meeting with him, Ranil instructed the
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