Courtesy Hiru News President Anura Kumara Disanayake held a discussion with the Attorney General and officials from the Attorney General’s Department at the Presidential Secretariat today (06). During the discussion, the President emphasized the importance of coordinated efforts among all institutions working towards the effective enforcement of the law. President Dissanayake highlighted the critical responsibility […]

By Namini Wijedasa SUNDAY TIMES The London-headquartered Lyca Group has been actively expanding its operations in Sri Lanka with Chairman and Founder Subaskaran Allirajah indirectly, deviously and circuitously, undertaking acquisitions in the local media sector”, states a petition filed before the Supreme Court.These transactions have been carried out through proxies to circumvent Sri Lankan regulations […]

 BY Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning The Government should first distinguish between privileges and security for former Presidents and avoid making decisions solely based on financial factors, said the Spokesperson for former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, attorney Manoj Gamage. Recently, the National People’s Power Government revised former Presidents’ security arrangements by reducing the number of Police […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While standing by former Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Canberra Himalee Arunatilaka, who faced a lawsuit over a salary issue of a domestic aide, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said Arunatilaka had not committed any financial fraud and that it was due to an issue with Sri Lankan salary scale. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් වන රවී සෙනෙවිරත්න මහතා යටතේ පාස්කු බෝම්බ ප‍්‍රහාරයට අදාළ විමර්ශන සිදුකිරීම පිළිගත නොහැකි යයි අගතියට පත් පාර්ශව වෙනුවෙන් අධිකරණයට මෝසමක් ගොනු කර ඇත. ලේකම්වරයා පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පත් කළ විමර්ශණ වාර්තාවක සැකකරුවෙකු ලෙස නම් කර ඇති නිසා මෙම මෝසම ගොනු කර ඇත. නීතිඥ සජිත ගමගේ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, October 22 (Daily Mirror) – The government will not accept the report of the Committee headed by retired Judge A.N.J. De Alwis that probed the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in its entirety as it is politically motivated, Minister Vijitha Herath said today. He told the weekly media briefing to announce […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Oct 22 (Daily Mirror) – Secretary to the Public Security Ministry former Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ravi Senaviratne and Director of Crimes of Sri Lanka Police, former Director CID, SSP Shani Abeysekera will not be removed from their positions for any reasons, Minister Vijitha Herath said today. He told […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to make a special statement tomorrow on the two committees he had appointed to probe the Easter Sunday bomb attacks.   Sources close to Wickremesinghe said he has decided to come up with a statement following the revelations made by former Minister Udaya Gammanpila on Monday.  […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith questioned the motive behind former President Ranil Wickremesinghe appointing a committee headed by Retired Judge A. N. J. Alwis earlier this year, to look into actions taken by the certain intelligence authorities in the lead up to the 2019 Easter Sunday bombing. The committee was […]

Courtesy Adaderana Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Colombo, says that they reject the report of the Committee of Inquiry, chaired by retired High Court Judge A.N.J. De Alwis. He made this statement in response to comments made by Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and former MP Udaya Gammanpila […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government does not accept the investigative committee report on the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, which was released by former MP Udaya Gammanpila yesterday (21), Cabinet Spokesman Minister Vijitha Herath said.  However, he stated that the government will conduct a new investigation into the incidents.  He revealed this stance while speaking during the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් නොවැම්බර් මස 14 වනදා පාර්ලිමේන්තු ඡන්ද විමසීම පැවැත්වීමට නිකුත් කර ඇති ගැසට් නිවේදනය ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි යයි තීන්දුවක් ලබාදෙන ඉල්ලා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ පෙත්සමක් ගොනුකර ඇත. මෙම පෙත්සම ගොනු කර ඇත්තේ ‘අපි ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික සංවිධාන’යේ, කැඳවුම්කරු එච්. එම්. ප්‍රියන්ත හේරත් මහතා විසිනි. වගඋත්තරකරුවන් ලෙස ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙනුවෙන් නීතිපතිවරයා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරයා, මැතිවරණ […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Court of Appeal has issued an interim order against the Gampola Divisional Secretary preventing her from interfering with the activities of the first cable car project in Sri Lanka, which is being built in the Ambuluwawa area. This order was issued by the Appeals Court after considering a petition filed by a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court has ordered the case against former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka over the hit-and-run incident which took place in 2016, in which the vehicle the former Minister was travelling in had collided with a motorcycle in Rajagiriya, to be postponed until February 28, 2025. When the case was taken up […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1. 2015 ගෙනා 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ගෙනා අවස්ථාවේ එක් නීති විශාරදයෙකුගේ අතපසුවීමක් හේතුවෙන් ජනතාවගෙන් සමාව ගැනීමට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ 2024 ජූලි 19 දින ගාල්ල අධිකරණ සංකීර්ණය විවෘත කිරීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවේදී පියවර ගත්තේය. 2. ඒ වන විට 2015 ගෙනා 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ නඩු පවරා එම නඩු […]

By Ranjith Rajapakse Courtesy The Daily Mirror An individual who had refused a handbill distributed by the SJB to support Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa has been allegedly threatened and assaulted by Nawalapitiya SJB organiser Sasanga Sampath Sanjeewa. The incident had been recorded on the CCTV camera system in the watch repair shop in Nawalapitiya town […]

Shweta Sharma Courtesy Independent  (UK) Former housekeeper worked ‘seven days a week for three years, and she had two days off in that entire time’, her lawyer says A Sri Lankan diplomat has been ordered by a court to pay more than half a million Australian dollars to her former housekeeper in back wages during her […]

Courtesy Adaderana An Australian Federal Court judge has slammed the Home Affairs Department for failing to properly scrutinise a Sri Lankan diplomat who confiscated a staffer’s passport and gave her just two days leave in three years, Australian media reported today. Sri Lanka’s former deputy high commissioner to Australia has been ordered to pay $543,000 […]

Courtesy Adaderana MP Wimal Weerawansa has filed a case against two officers of the Immigration and Emigration Department before the Colombo District Court seeking Rs. 1,000 million as compensation for alleged defamation. The former minister says he was arrested under the Immigration and Emigration Act for no reason during the previous ‘Yahapalana’ (good governance) government […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 15 (Daily Mirror)- The Fundamental Rights petition filed by a lawyer seeking a declaration that the Presidential election should not be held without a referendum on the 19th amendment to the Constitution, was dismissed by the Supreme Court with a Rs. 500,000 cost a short while ago. The Supreme […]

Ada Derana ජනාධිපතිවරණය කල්දැමීමට ඉල්ලූ දෙවැනි පෙත්සමත් විසිවෙයි අගවිනිසුරුගෙන් පෙත්සම්කරුට දෝස් මුරයක් “මෙච්චර කියලත් තේරෙන්නේ නැත්නම්…”

Courtesy Adaderana A three-member panel of judges has been named to take up for consideration the Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed seeking an order to prevent holding of the Presidential Election as the 19th Amendment to the Constitution has not been properly passed in Parliament. Accordingly, the petition filed by Attorney-at-Law Aruna Laksiri, is slated […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන 19ට පැවැත්විය යුතු  ජනමතවිචාරණය පවත්වා නැති බවත්, ජනාධිපතිවරණය පැවත්විය හැක්කේ  එකී ජනමතවිචාරණය පවත්වා ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් 19ය නීතියක් බවට සහකිය යෙදීමෙන් පසුව බවත්, ඒ සදහාවන ජනමතවිචාරණය පැවැත්වීමට ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙන් නියෝග ලබා ගැනීමට නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ  මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩුවක් පවරා ඇත. 19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන ජනාධිපතිවරණය 2024 දී පැවැත්වීම නතර කර ගැනීමට, පානදුරේ ලිපිනයැති චමින්ද ලේනව නම් අයෙක් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ විධිවිධාන යටතේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩුවක් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේදී පවරා ඇති අතර එය ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 70 ව්‍යවස්ථාව අදාල කරගෙන පවරා නොමැත්තේනම් සාර්ථක කරගත හැකිද යන්න පෙන්වා දීම මෙම […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. 2024.06.19 වන දින, විදේශ නඩු තීන්දු අනෝන්‍යව පිළිගැනීම, ලියාපදිංචි කිරීම සහ බලාත්මක කිරීම පිළිබද පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තු න්‍යාය පත්‍රයට ඇතුලත් කර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර පළමුවර කියවූ අතර, එම පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 121 ව්‍යස්ථාව යටතේ 2024 ජූලි 01 දින […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 28 (Daily Mirror) – Former Colombo district Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra, who has been jailed for 3 years by the High Court of Colombo for her involvement in the abduction of a youth using a Defender, is expected to seek bail from the Colombo High Court. President’s Counsel Anura Meddegoda, […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයන්ගේ බලතල සහ වරප්‍රසාද අභිබවා 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරීම පිළිබඳ පනතේ විධිවිධාන ක්‍රියාත්මක කරවීමට හැකි පරිදි මේ වන විට නීති සම්මත කරවාගෙන ඇත. එය පැහැදිලි කර ගැනීමට 1953 අංක 21 දරන පාර්ලිමේන්තු […]

Ontario Centre for Policy Research  An application was brought forward against Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for judicial review, challenging his message on Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, issued on May 18, 2023. The primary intention of this Application is to obtain a clear legal position regarding the Tamil genocide. Canada’s top court, the Federal Court, […]

Ontario Centre for Policy Research  June 13, 2024Ottawa An application was brought forward against Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for judicial review, challenging his message on Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, issued on May 18, 2023. The primary intention of this Application is to obtain a legal position regarding the alleged Tamil genocide, whether the prime […]

By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror May 14 (Daily Mirror) –  The U.S. State Department has sought to intervene in the drafting of Sri Lanka’s new piece of legislation that, if enacted, will provide for the registration of both local and international NGOs in the country, a top source said yesterday. The final draft of […]