Environmental organisations have condemned a vicious attack on an environmental activist and journalist.
Sources at the Police Headquarters say that promotions to a group of police officers who have claimed that they were subjected to political victimisation have been temporarily
Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said that the government is focusing on taking back the Hambantota port which was sold to China by the previous 'Yahapalana' government.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a three member panel on Thursday (21) to probe the findings of the previous commissions of inquiry appointed by Sri Lanka to investigate human rights abuses committed during the last phase of the armed conflict with the LTTE in 2009.
The United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner’s latest report on Sri Lanka goes so far as to suggest targeted sanctions such as asset freezes and travel bans for Sri Lankans “credibly accused of human rights violations”.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at his official residence at Wijerama Mawatha today (24).
