Jaffna students boycott classes, TNA to protest

SC to consider petition filed against Ranil’s removal on January 7th

The Supreme Court has decided to consider a fundamental rights petitions filed against the removal of Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister on the 7th of January, 2019. The Venerable Dambara Amila Thero had filed a fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court against appointing Wickremesinghe being removed from the post. A fundamental rights petition was also filed at the Supreme Court by a former Deputy Director of the President?s Media Division, Oshala Herath, against Wickremesinghe’s r

10 Dec, 2018

Sri Lankan in Australia sentenced to jail for child abuse

A babysitter who sexually abused two seven-year-old boys in?Perth, Australia has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison and is likely to be deported to Sri Lanka after serving his term, the Australian Associated Press reported. Dayanthan Stanley Mohanraj, 19, was convicted after a trial of four counts of sexually penetrating a child in 2016, when he was babysitting on a casual basis. Stanley Mohanraj showed one boy pornography and later sexually abused the child in a public toilet,

11 Dec, 2018

President makes push to impliment death penalty on drug traffickers

President Maithripala Sirisena says necessary steps should be taken immediately to implement the death penalty against persons who continue to engage in drug trafficking even after they had been convicted and sentenced to death. President Sirisena said that a failure by the relevant institutions to submit the required documents related to the convicts on death row still engaged in?drug trafficking has resulted in a delay to implement the death penalty. He said that an investigation will be lau

10 Dec, 2018