Special school holidays declared this week

CID recovers deleted data from Namal Kumara’s phone

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has recovered?deleted conversations from the mobile phone of activist Namal Kumara. A special team from the CID had visited Hong Kong as part of an ongoing investigation into the alleged plot to kill President Maithripala Sirisena. The CID team was in Hong Kong to recover the voice recordings related to the case, deleted from the mobile telephone of Namal Kumara. Two officers from the CID and an official from the Government Analyst?s Department wer

19 Dec, 2018

SLMC, TNA to back 20th Amendment to Constitution

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) are to support to the?20th Amendment to Constitution. The position of the TNA and SLMC was conveyed to Parliament during a debate today on abolishing the Executive Presidency TNA MP, M.A. Sumanthiran said that after the 2015 Presidential elections, Tamils assumed that the?Executive Presidency, as a system of Government will be abolished soon. However he noted this was done only in part through the 19th Amendment and th

18 Dec, 2018

Ambassador Jayatilleka holds talks with Apostolic Nuncio to Russia

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Russia, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka paid a courtesy call on His Grace Celestino Migliore, the?Archbishop?of the?Roman Catholic Church,?who was appointed by Pope Francis as the?Apostolic Nuncio to Russia. Celestino Migliore is?a?Titular Archbishop?of?Canosa? and?has spent most of his career in the?diplomatic service?of the?Holy See?in the UN (New York) USA, Egypt, France and Poland. Ambassador Jayatilleka and Madame Jayatilleka were luncheon gues

19 Dec, 2018