CID investigating over 1800 phone numbers linked to bombers

Sri Lankans deported from Australia

Another group of Sri Lankan nationals were deported to Sri Lanka on a charter flight to Colombo from Christmas Island today, the Australian High Commission in Colombo said today. The group of 30 single adult males had arrived on a number of boats over the last week or so, the High Commission said in a statement. They were advised of their status and that they were subject to removal from Australia. They raised no issues that engaged Australia’s international obligations. Without a valid visa

07 Nov, 2012

Lanka rejects 98 recommendations at UPR

Sri Lanka has rejected 98 recommendations submitted by countries at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, the troika tasked with serving as rapporteurs for Sri Lanka’s UPR said in its draft report. Benin, India and Spain submitted its draft report on Sri Lanka at the UPR today. Presenting the report on Sri Lanka, the Ambassador of Spain to the UN in Geneva said that 210 recommendations were made to Sri Lanka. The troika initially said that Sri Lanka had rejected 100?recommendations?an

05 Nov, 2012

Government MPs present 14 charges on CJ

In the motion submitted by a group of government parliamentarians against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, she has been charged on 14 counts which, the motion says, amounts to improper conduct or conduct unbecoming of a person holding the office of the Chief Justice. The charges include: 1. Whereas by purchasing, in the names of two individuals, i.e. Renuka Niranjali Bandaranayake and Kapila Ranjan Karunaratne using special power of attorney licence bearing No. 823 of Public Notary K.B. Ar

06 Nov, 2012