In a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) while expressing serious distress over the intention to reinstate
The leadership of the Democratic National Front (DNF), which is the new political alliance to be formed by the United National Party (UNP), is to be given to UNP Leader, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, The Leader reliably learns.
The delays that had taken place at the Attorney General’s Department have been blamed by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) as the reason for the delay in arresting National Thowheed Jama'ath (NTJ) Leader Mohammad Zaharan Hashim.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has intervened to cancel a meeting that was to take place between visiting UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Association, Clement Nyaltessoi Voule and judges of Sri Lanka’s High Courts (HC).
The Attorney General (AG) has been ordered by the Permanent High Court at Bar to submit an affidavit before August 9th citing grounds if any for the request made to issue an arrest warrant on former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Arjuna Mahendran.
A stalwart in Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s Viyathmaga organization has said there will be no issue in the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Chief appearing before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to probe the Easter Sunday attacks if his privacy is ensured.
The unrestrained freedom extended by the current regime to a bunch of saffron-clad street vendors of Sinhala Buddhist zealotry is pushing Sri Lanka once again into a cauldron
Despite speculation on the key contenders at the next presidential election, it is now becoming evident that the two front runners would be Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP), Minister Sajith Premadasa and former Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
The revision application filed by the Attorney General (AG) before the Colombo High Court (HC) against the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s order
Former President and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, who together with the ‘joint opposition' in parliament led by him have continuously opposed the Sri Lankan
