Major fire rips through Sapugaskanda factory

Sri Lanka Mirror journalists arrested

Several employees of?the Sri Lanka Mirror website including some journalists were arrested following a raid by the?Criminal Investigations Department (CID) this afternoon. The CID earlier raided the office of the Sri Lanka Mirror website and the house of journalist Ruwan Ferdinandez, UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera said. He said that plain clothed officers were involved in the raid on the Kotte office of the website and they checked the computers and documents in the office. The CID officers had s

29 Jun, 2012

Petition to repeal Sri Lanka?s anti-gay laws

A petition to repeal Sri Lanka?s colonial laws that are used to criminalize homosexual sex has been started by Equal Ground rights group. Sections 365 and 365A of Sri Lanka?s penal code criminalize ?carnal intercourse against the order of nature? and ?gross indecency? respectively. They have been historically used to penalize gay people but no one has been convicted by them for 50 years. The petition on Change.org was started by Equal Ground, a group who campaign for equal rights for sexual or

28 Jun, 2012

Pune blast co-accused trained in Colombo

Suspected LeT operative Faiyaz Kagzi had trained Mirza Himayat Baig, who was arrested for his alleged role in 2010 Pune German bakery blast, at a camp in Colombo, the Maharashtra ATS said. In 2008, Kagzi had trained LeT operative Baig in organising recruits and bomb-making techniques in a camp in the Sri Lankan capital for three weeks, an ATS official told PTI. “In March 2008, Baig had been to Colombo after being called by Kagzi, an alleged former SIMI activist wanted in 2006 Aurangabad arms h

28 Jun, 2012