Schools in Jaffna closed owing to extreme weather

Court rejects British woman’s attempt to halt being deported

The Supreme Court has dismissed an attempt by a British woman to block moves by Sri Lankan authorities to deport her. It was reported that Kayleigh Fraser had challenged the move and sought an order to quash the decision of the Department of Immigration and Emigration to deport her in an arbitrary manner. The Attorney General had raised preliminary objections against the appeal on the basis that there is no proper affidavit before court and that the appellant has suppressed material facts and

22 Feb, 2024

CEB spokesman resigns following outrage over comments

The spokesperson of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Noel Priyantha resigned from his post following outrage over comments he made suggesting children use kerosene oil lamps to study if their parents cannot afford to pay for electricity. The CEB spokesman had also suggested that plantation community who cannot afford to pay for electricity still pay to have a drink at night. His comments drew strong reactions from several people on social media including Minister Jeevan Thondaman. Power an

22 Feb, 2024

Boy with Sri Lankan roots killed himself in UK following blackmail

A 16-year-old boy with Sri Lankan roots, described by his parents as a ?golden boy? took his own life in the UK after being blackmailed over nude photographs, an inquest heard. Dinal De Alwis, 16, was found by a coroner to have killed himself in Sutton, south London, in October 2022. A Metropolitan police investigation found that in the hours before his death, Dinal, who had recently attended an open day at Cambridge, where he had wanted to study economics, had received iMessages from a man wh

28 Feb, 2024