Five sentenced to death over 1999 murder

Waheed sends letter to MR

Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed Hassan sent a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa today through Maldivian Vice President Mohamed Waheeduddin, a Maldivian official said today. Speaking to The Sunday Leader following a press briefing in Colombo today Dr. Ananda Kumarasiri, an advisor to the Maldivian government, said that the Maldivian President had conveyed to President Rajapaksa his appreciation over President Rajapaksa taking a neutral stand on the issue in the Maldives. He said that bot

22 Feb, 2012

Teens arrested for highway crime

The police say they have arrested three teenagers, aged 19, 16 and 15, for pelting stones at vehicles on the southern expressway. In a special media release this evening, the police media unit said that the teens were arrested following an operation conducted by the highway patrol unit. The police said that the teens had pelted stones at a Maruti car on the highway yesterday causing damages to the vehicle. Following the incident a special operation was launched and the teens were later arrest

21 Feb, 2012

Norway to back resolution at UNHRC

Norway has joined other nations in calling for an investigation into civilian deaths in the country?s long and bloody civil war. The UN resolution wants answers to questions about, among other things, what happened to the thousands killed in the last months of the war. When it finally ended in 2009, after 27 years, most of the leadership of the guerilla movement LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers, was killed. So were as many as 40,000 civilians, and now the US, Norway and several other coun

23 Feb, 2012