Cop who helped arrest doctor fleeing with Rs. 7.9 million dies

UPFA claims polls timed ahead of UN report

The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) says?the August 17 Parliament election was timed to take place before the report on Sri Lanka by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights?(OHCHR) is?released. Former UPFA Parliamentarian Dullas Alahapperuma said that the report on Sri Lanka is expected to pose a threat to Sri Lanka. He claimed?that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had wanted the Parliamentary election to be held before August 21 when the report will be handed over t

27 Jul, 2015

Australia’s Labor party wants Lankans returned

Asylum-seekers, including those from Sri Lanka, intercepted at sea could be handed back to their home countries if a Labor government assessed they were not owed refugee protection, The Australian newspaper quoted Bill Shorten as saying today. The Opposition Leader, asked to elaborate on his vision today, confirmed that ?like the government? he would want asylum-seekers returned to their home countries if possible. ?When it comes to the issue of returning boats to source countries, what we wou

27 Jul, 2015

Indian police arrest a former LTTE operative

Police arrested a former LTTE operative at the Trichy International Airport while he was attempting to leave for Switzerland on a fake passport yesterday, the Indian media reported. The Trichy police also arrested a?native of Ramanathapuram for helping the former LTTE member get the fake passport. The police are now searching for a man in Chennai for helping him. A Kumaraguru, 39, a native of North Jaffna in Sri Lanka, was apprehended by the airport police when he produced a fake passport. He

27 Jul, 2015