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By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka My mother told me, decades later, that she was sure Sirisena Cooray knew I was under 18 when he let me slip into the cinema in my long-trousers for the 9:30pm show for movies that were ‘adults only’, having conspired with my father. She remembered Mr. Cooray laconically saying “wait till […]

By AJA Abeynayake Former State Intelligence Service head and incumbent Senior DIG of the Central Province Nilantha Jayawardena told the court yesterday that information received from foreign agencies of possible terror attacks on Easter Sunday could not be processed into intelligence. Therefore, he had not been able to hand over an intelligence report on the […]

Maithripala Sirisena, Nilantha J, two senior AG Department officials among the culprits By Shamindra Ferdinando The Catholic Church yesterday (25) welcomed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s declaration that the government had the required 2/3 majority in Parliament to take action against those who had been named in the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) by introducing a new […]

By Dinasena Ratugamage Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs met German Ambassador to Sri Lanka Holger Seubert and his deputy on Wednesday (24) to discuss the issues faced by the Tamil people in the North and the East. The TNA delegation told the German Ambassador that the government was postponing the provincial council elections and that […]

SJB MPs yesterday staged a protest in Parliament against violence against women. The MPs wore orange colour ribbons around their arms and had stickers on their attires reading: ‘Stop Violence against Women.’ The MPs were protesting against remarks made by SLPP MP Janaka Tissakuttiarachchi about MP Rohini Wijeratne and the Opposition Leader’s wife, in Parliament, […]

By Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon and Anton Fernando A gas cylinder exploded at a house in Pannipitiya, Kottawa at around 4 am yesterday. The house sustained substantial damage due to the explosion. None of the residents were injured. A resident of the house said that they woke up hearing an explosion. When they opened the kitchen, […]

Over 2300 families in Vavuniya, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu have been displaced by the heavy rains that have been continuing for three days. Most of these families have been affected by adverse weather three times this month. A large number of houses have been flooded. Several roads in Vavuniya have been inundated. A number of schools […]

Priests at the forefront of demonstrations calling on the government to reveal the truth

Supreme Court to hear Father Cyril Gamini’s plea against violation of his fundamental rights

The Cabinet had been presented with suggestions to amend 60 laws, Minister of Justice Mohamed Ali Sabry said yesterday addressing an event at Medawachchiya. The Minister said that a lot of laws would be amended in the next six to 12 months. He added that there were many antiquated laws that were adversely affecting the […]