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| MR says one law for all |
| 2013-07-07 |
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa says the law is equal to all and no one has a right to take the law into their own hands.
The President said this while speaking after declaring open the renovated Jumma Masjid Mosque in Beruwala today.
The President noted that his government had always acted to ensure religious co-existence with firm determination and a clear commitment to national unity.
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| Killing of estate superintendent in Deraniyagala - four suspects arrested |
| 2013-07-07 |
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Four persons have been arrested in connection to the murder of the superintendent of Noori estate in Deraniyagala.
The Police Media Unit said they seized the jeep in which the suspects arrived. The seventy-one-yearold estate superintendent was killed and two others were injured in an assault launched by a group in Noori Estate on Friday.
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| Petition filed against disposal of garbage in Meethotamulla taken up |
| 2013-07-07 |
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A petition filed against the improper disposal of garbage in the Meethotamulla area was taken up for consideration once again at the Colombo Magistrate Court on Thursday.
The petition was filed by the Public Campaign against the Kolonnawa landfill.
The Colombo Magistrate obtained evidence from residents while the verdict is to be given on July 9.
The Colombo Municipal Council, the Kolonnawa Urban Council and the Urban Development Authority have been named as respondents in the case.
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| Protest stalls traffic on Galle Road in Moratuwa |
| 2013-07-07 |
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Vehicular traffic along the Galle road has been hampered in the Moratuwa area due to a protest.
According to our correspondent in the area the protest was staged by the Old Boys Union of Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa against the suspension of the school principal.
Heavy traffic congestion was reported on the Galle road in the Moratuwa area due to the protest.
Our corespondent noted that the police took measures to direct traffic onto a single lane.
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| Woman electrocuted in Borella |
| 2013-07-07 |
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A woman died after being electrocuted near the D.S Sennanayake roundabout in Borella.
The police media unit said that the deceased was an employee of a private cleaning company.
Investigations into the incident are currently underway.
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| Ranjan visits attacked migrant worker at hospital |
| 2013-07-07 |
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Chandrani Indralatha (40) has been working in Suadi Arabia for one and half years.
However, since she was brutally attacked by her employers, she has returned to Sri Lanka. She is currently receiving treatments at ward 5 of the Noegombo hospital.
UNP parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake has visited the hospital to inquire about her health.
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| Gota’s tapped phone story is false |
| 2013-07-07 |
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The complaint made by the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa against a certain tele-communication company indicating that his phone has been tapped in order to obtain state secrets, is an attempt to mislead the public, reports ‘Lanka‘ newspaper.
According to their report, the reason for the complaint made by the Defence Secretary is former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealing the world that NSA has developed a cernuous that can capture anything.
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| UK court says detained Tamils at risk |
| 2013-07-07 |
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hemmer 410px1The final determination of the Sri Lanka Country Guidance Case was released yesterday and it is to provide a new guidance in deciding asylum cases in the UK.
The UK Upper Tribunal has agreed that Tamils detained by the Sri Lankan security services remains at real risk of ill-treatment or harm requiring international protection.
The decision also introduced categories of the persons at risk in Sri Lanka which includes, LTTE members, relatives of the LTTE members, journalists and Tamils activists and huma
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| Lankan launches HC challenge against ASIO assessment |
| 2013-07-07 |
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A High Court challenge has been launched against the indefinite detention of a Sri Lankan woman who received an adverse security assessment from ASIO.
The woman, Ranjini, was pregnant and living in Melbourne when she was originally granted refugee status.
But a subsequent adverse security assessment saw her flown to Sydney with her nine and seven-year-old sons and new born baby and detained at Villawood Detention Centre, where she has now been for 14 months.
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| Bomb attack victim's kin to get compensation |
| 2013-07-07 |
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Confirming the single judge order, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court directed the government to pay a compensation of Rs10 lakh with eight per cent interest to the parents of a youth, who was killed in petrol bomb attack carried out on a Government bus by VCK cadre on May 20, 2009, after news of the death of LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran broke out in the State.
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