An interim order issued by the court of appeal prevents the arrest or interrogation of former attorney general Dappula de Livera by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID).

Colombo chief magistrate Prasanna Alwis today (24) ruled the court will not issue an order for the arrest of state minister Diana Gamage.

The leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF) Wimal Weeramansa calls for the naming of the person who had received a 250 million US dollar bribe to cover-up the X-Press Pearl marine disaster.

A Tamil mother of ten who died during a hunger-strike to demand a ceasefire between Indian peacekeepers and the LTTE in 1988 has been remembered in the north and the east.

A person infamous for taking commissions is behind the attempt to cover-up this marine disaster, charged leader of the 43 Brigade Patali Champika Ranawaka.

The chairman of the United National Party (UNP) chairman Wajira Abeywardena said cabinet members at the time voted in favour of the proposed anti-terrorism act (ATA) when it was first presented to Parliament in 2018.

The SLPP is a specific group of people with a political ideology, not a gang of a several persons, said FPC MP Prof. Charitha Herath.

State minister of indigenous medicine Sisira Jayakody has demanded the immediate resignation of chairperson of the Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation Sagala Abeyawickrama.

While conceding that state institutions running at a loss need to be reformed, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa alleges the present regime plans to sell off the profit-making ones as well.