Police take custody of child tortured by father
Police have taken custody of a small child tortured by his drug-addict father in Wellampitiya.
Police have taken custody of a small child tortured by his drug-addict father in Wellampitiya.
Prior to leaving on a two-day visit to India on 21 July, president Ranil Wickremesinghe is to favourably consider several requests by the Tamil polity in the north and the hill-country, said Presidential Secretariat sources.
Removal of military camps in the northern province could lead to the finding of more mass graves, says a Tamil woman of Mannar whose young son is a victim of enforced disappearances.
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned last night (09) from a two-week long pilgrimage that took him to Cambodia and Laos.
Recent incidents involving Buddhist monks point to the need that Sri Lanka should be a secular state, Tamil Progressive Alliance leader Mano Ganeshan.
An academic has warned that Sri Lanka could face a big issue due to the loss of its young population in the near future to brain drain.
At least 13 passengers have died and 81 others sustained injuries in three separate road accidents, police said.
C.D. Wickramaratne has been given a second extension to function as the police chief for another three months.
A group of youths involved in the ‘Aragalaya’ has called for a new social consensus on reforms to prevent a defeat for the people’s victory gained a year ago.
The National Institute of Education has a new director general in Prof. Prasad Sethunga.