Body found inside Thurstan College swimming pool

Suspected human trafficking racket exposed

By Easwaran Rutnam A suspected human trafficking racket has been exposed after a number of women stranded in Abu Dhabi in the UAE contacted a celebrity couple in Sri Lanka and appealed for help, Daily Mirror learns. The racket came to light after a domestic worker who was employed by the celebrity couple decided to leave saying she had received work in Oman. The domestic worker had later made contact with her daughter and said that she was locked up in a room with at least 16 other women. Th

17 Nov, 2022

Sri Lanka says 90 female domestic workers stranded in Oman

At least 90 female domestic workers from Sri Lanka are stranded in Oman, the?Embassy of Sri Lanka in?Muscat said today. The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Muscat, Oman receives an increasing number of complaints daily from Sri Lankan female domestic workers who arrived in Oman. Most of them have arrived using visit or tourist visas intending to convert them to work visas. Many of them were trafficked by unscrupulous and unregistered agents and have faced tremendous difficulties including various hara

17 Nov, 2022

TNA ready for conditional talks on political solution

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says it is prepared to have conditional talks with the Government to reach a political solution on the Tamil issue. TNA MP S. Sritharan told Parliament that the Government must stop dragging its feet on the issue. He also warned that failure to address the issue now, under the TNA leadership of R. Sampanthan, could have a negative impact later. He called on the opposition to unite and push for a political solution for the Tamils. The MP also said the country

18 Nov, 2022