Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena further remanded

Graveside memorial service to mark 14th anniversary of Lasantha?s murder

The 14th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, friends, former colleagues and others will gather at Borella Kanatte at 9 a.m. to mark the anniversary and remember Lasantha. Assassinated on 8 January 2009, Lasantha was one of Sri Lanka?s leading journalists and an outspoken critic of the then Rajapaksa Government. He was attacked as he drove to work

07 Jan, 2023

Moves to regulate social media in Sri Lanka

The Government hopes to regulate social media in Sri Lanka by using laws followed in Singapore as a model. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told local media heads that the Government is studying the Telecommunications Act (TA), the primary legislation governing the telecoms sector in Singapore. He had noted that while there are laws in Sri Lanka to regulate the print and electronic media, there is no legal framework covering social media. As a result, the President said that steps will be taken

06 Jan, 2023

How India’s military strength grew in 2022

India embarked on a major overdrive in 2022 to significantly bolster its overall military prowess and focused on its strategic goals in South Asia as a fresh attempt of transgression in the Tawang sector by the Chinese troops amid the unresolved eastern Ladakh border standoff renewed the focus on the looming threat from China along the frontier. The Indian troops guarding the nearly 3,500-km Line of Actual Control (LAC) maintained an assertive approach in sync with the broader national security

07 Jan, 2023