Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" whose dark, provocative novels delved into the enigma of the human condition, has died, a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his native city of Brno said on Wednesday. He was 94.
A girl, aged 21, has died after being given two vaccines for a stomach ailment at Peradeniya Hospital.
One-third of the cases pending before high courts are on child abuse and rape of women, said justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
Police are investigating to arrest a catholic priest in Marawila, who is in hiding after having allegedly sexually abused a schoolboy for nearly a year.
Plantation workers who are fighting for their rights are now in danger of losing their estate houses as well.
Fishermen of the north urge their political leaders to encourage president Ranil Wickremesinghe to take up Indian poaching and find a solution during his upcoming visit to India.
A Tamil MP has claimed in parliament that a mass grave of youths killed by the military exists in Mandativu Island off Jaffna.
Both the SJB and the NNP have quitted a newly-appointed parliamentary committee that inquires into the country’s economic insolvency.
Lawyers in the northern and eastern provinces have protested against government MP Sarath Weerasekara over his recent remarks in contempt of court.
Former President and incumbent Opposition Parliamentarian Maithripala Sirisena has filed a motion in the Supreme Court (SC) requesting that he be allowed to pay Rs. 85 million (Mn) of the Rs. 100 million compensation ordered to be paid to the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks and their families, in 10 installments of Rs. 8.5 million each, from 30 June 2024 to 20 June 2033. Sirisena has already paid Rs. 15 million.
