Three persons have been arrested in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl inside a bus at Kumbukgete in Kurunegala.

The Court of Appeal has postponed delivering the verdict on the petition filed seeking the disqualification of State Minister Diana Gamage’s parliamentary seat.

The JVP has sent its central committee members Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa and Arun Hemachandra to the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference – 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (17) afternoon reinstated C.D. Wickramaratne as the police chief less than an hour after the Constitutional Council scrapped his service extension.

A Sri Lankan woman was confirmed dead yesterday (17) after she was reported missing in Israel following the Hamas militant attack 10 days earlier.

The Supreme Court yesterday (17) granted leave to proceed with a fundamental rights petition filed by a man for detaining him for three days in prison custody despite the Court of Appeal having ordered his release from the case.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is on an official four-day trip to China, led a delegation to Huawei’s research and development centre in Beijing today (17).

Justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said he was under pressure from no one when he submitted a cabinet bill for a change in the election system.

A protest took place in front of the UN office in Colombo yesterday afternoon (16) against the killing of civilians in the war between Israel and Hamas militants in Palestine.

The U.S. Embassy in Colombo, together with the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), brought together
scholars from across the Indo-Pacific on Monday, October 16 for the conference “Ocean Security: South Asia and the Indian Ocean.”