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).

It is reported that the Head of the Presidential Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication, Basil Rajapaksa has severely reprimanded former Air Force Commander, Marshal of the Air Force Roshan Gunathilake, for failing to summon officials from the Ministry of Education to a meeting that was convened at Temple Trees.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today said that 600,000 vials of Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine will be delivered to Sri Lanka from India on January 27.

The United National Party (UNP) said that the former government had not entered into any agreement to sell the East Container Terminal (ECT) or any section of the Colombo Port to India, Japan or any other country.