If the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) takes a tough decision against Sri Lanka, it will be people of this country who will suffer and not be the rulers or the politicians of this country and as such,the whole country should be united and be reconciled, the Chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice Karu Jayasuriya said.
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to probe the Easter Sunday attack has accused former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen of contacting the then Army Commander to seek relief with regard to a suspect who was arrested in connection with the terror attacks.
Accordingly, the Commission has recommended that all Members of Parliament be barred from speaking to police and military officials about suspects arrested in connection with terrorist activities.
With regard to the allegation of the former Minister providing copper to a person linked to the attacks, the PCoI has stated the matter should be referred to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC).
It is also reported that the PCoI has recommended that further investigations be carried out on Riyaj Bathiudeen, the brother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen.
The PCoI's most serious charges are levelled against former President Maithripala Sirisena.
The PCoI recommended that the Attorney General consider instituting criminal proceedings against the former President as the Commission has found enough evidence to hold Maithripala Sirisena guilty of “criminal liability”.
The report by the PCoI noted that former President Maithripala Sirisena had travelled to India and Singapore from 16 to 21 April 2019 without making an acting appointment for the posts of Minister of Defense in spite of the information he possessed of a possible threat emanating from Zahran Hashim/ISIS which was a violation of the Constitution.
The Cabinet of Ministers, after reviewing the progress of Rice Purchasing Programme of the Maha season of 2020/21, has given its approval to purchase paddy from local farmers at competitive prices with the private sector under the aforesaid programme.
One of Sri Lanka’s largest biodiversity zones, the Wilpattu National Park, is slowly but steadily being denuded which will cause irreversible damage to the fragile ecological
Foreign Ministry sources say that the possible appointment of Duraisamy Venkatesh as the Deputy High Commissioner of the Sri Lankan Mission in Chennai, India, is still being considered and that no final decision has been made yet.
A 13-year-old Sri Lankan boy has made an impassioned plea through an open message to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan seeking his intervention with regard to the Sri
Venture capitalist and political fundraiser Imaad Shah Zuberi, 60, was sentenced on Thursday to 12 years in a federal prison for falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level US Government officials, evading the payment of millions of dollars in taxes, making illegal campaign contributions, and obstructing a federal investigation into the source of donations to a presidential inauguration committee.
All doctors who were involved in treating former CID Director Shani Abeysekara at the National Hospital before he was discharged yesterday and sent to Welikada have stated
The Indian High Commission in Colombo has rejected news reports which said that the lease agreement between India and Sri LAnka with regard to the Trincomalee oil storage tanks has been scrapped.
