Fundamental rights petitions are to be filed tomorrow (25) against the arrest and detention of three student activists under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), according to their lawyers.

MP for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Premnath C. Dolawaththa is to present a private member’s bill in order to amend provisions in the penal code which criminalise same-sex sexual activity.

Two directors of the leading local company Entrust Holdings have been remanded until August 31 on charges of having defrauded Rs. 55 million five years ago on the promise of providing US dollars.

The one year remembrance of the late Mangala Samaraweera, a formidable figure in Sri Lankan politics who previously held several ministerial posts, is an apt time to reflect and learn how hard he toiled to make Sri Lanka a developed nation - both economically and socially.

Three leading student activists have been referred to the TID in Narahenpita for questioning on a 90-day detention order.

Ajantha Nilmini de Silva, the mother of renowned journalist and Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Sunday Morning’ newspaper Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema, has passed away.

Tomorrow (24) marks one year since the nation lost Mangala Samaraweera.

Accusing exiled ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Tamil genocide, a group of women in the north and the east has decided to ask the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to produce him before the international war crimes tribunal.

The national organiser of the Socialist Students’ Union, the students’ arm of the JVP, has been taken into custody.

More than 140,000 Sri Lankans have left the island for foreign employment so far this year, said the Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Ministry.