Nigerian arrested in Mount Lavinia without valid visa

India says no opposition to giving Lanka a ship

The Indian government says there was no opposition to giving the Sri Lanka navy a coast guard ship ship. Indian?Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh said that Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Varaha was transferred on lease to the Sri Lankan Navy in April, 2006. The lease was extended from time to time. On the request of the Sri Lankan side, the ship was gifted to the Government of Sri Lanka on a permanent basis in August 2015 as a goodwill gesture in line with India’s?commitment to

12 Dec, 2015

UK notes de-listing of GTF, BTF in updated travel advice

The British Foreign Office has issued an updated travel advice on Sri Lanka which takes note of the de-listing of two UK based diaspora groups. The updated travel advice issued today notes that on 20 November 2015, the Sri Lankan Government published a revised list of organisations and individuals proscribed under Sri Lankan law and the list no longer includes the British Tamil Forum (BTF) or the Global Tamil Forum (GTF). The British Government had last month?welcomed the move by Sri Lanka to?

11 Dec, 2015

UN Rapporteur wants Lanka to invite him

A?top UN official said that there were encouraging signs that Sri Lanka will deal with human rights concerns related to the war but the new government was not willing to go all the way. Christof Heyns, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said that for him Sri Lanka stands out as the most defining moment when carrying out his mandate in 2015. ?To me, the case of Sri Lanka stands out. And the resolution that has been taken in Geneva about that

13 Dec, 2015