Over 50 admitted to hospital after wasp attack

Minister says he allowed Piumi and others to get their clothes

Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara today insisted that he had not ordered a bus transporting model Piumi Hansamali and others to a quarantine facility to turn back but only allowed them to return to take their clothes.? Issuing a statement, Weerasekara said that he had received a telephone call from a lawyer saying Hansamali and others who were ordered to be quarantined this week for attending a party at a Colombo hotel, did not have their basic clothes when they were packed into a bus

04 Jun, 2021

Name board without Sinhalese at Indian consulate replaced?

By Easwaran Rutnam? A name board at the Indian consulate in Jaffna which had wordings in English, Tamil and Hindi and not Sinhalese, has been replaced. Concerns were raised over the name board especially at a time when similar criticism had been directed at some Chinese companies for not giving space to Tamil on their name boards. Well informed sources told?Daily Mirror?that the name board of the Indian Consulate General in Jaffna had been placed 5 years ago. Indian sources said that the nee

05 Jun, 2021

Petition filed in court calling for extensive probe over fire

A petition has been filed in court calling for an extensive investigation into the fire on the ship MV X-Press Pearl in Sri Lankan waters. A Fundamental Rights (FR) petition was filed at the Supreme Court today by the Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) together with a group of fishermen.? The court has been requested to instruct authorities to conduct a systematic probe into how the vessel had entered Sri Lankan waters.? The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is continuing its probe

04 Jun, 2021