TID Director DIG Nalaka de Silva transferred

Brussels blasts carried out by suicide bomber, 21 dead

Belgian firefighters on Tuesday said there were at least 21 dead after “enormous” blasts hit Brussels airport and the city’s metro system. Pierre Meys, the spokesman for the Brussels fire brigade, told AFP 11 people died in twin blasts at Brussels airport. There were also “around ten killed at the Maalbeek metro station where there was an enormous explosion,” he said. “Most of the wounded have been evacuated. The scene is rather chaotic,” he said. The blasts occurred four days after the arre

22 Mar, 2016

Kerry urged to push Sri Lanka to repeal PTA, free prisoners

US Secretary of State John Kerry has been urged to push Sri Lanka to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), release political prisoners and return land held by the army. The chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs Edward Royce has written to Kerry?saying?he supports the increased diplomatic engagement with the Sri Lankan Government. He noted in the letter that the Government led by President Maithripala Sirisena had made several promises and continues to make “impressive,

14 Mar, 2016

Sharma rejects criticism over his ties with MR led regime

Outgoing?Secretary General of the Commonwealth Kamalesh Sharma?has?rejected criticism over his relationship with Sri Lanka. Criticism of the Commonwealth?s role and Sharma?s leadership peaked in the lead-up to the?Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)?2013 in Sri Lanka. Human rights groups and pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organisations in Britain accused him of soft-pedalling the human rights abuses of the Rajapaksa regime, which in turn led to some heads of government boycot

22 Mar, 2016