Colombo Additional Magistrate, Mohammad Shahabuddeen, severely reprimanded the wife of the former DIG, Vass Gunawardena, warning her not to interfere with or threaten witnesses, of the case of the murdered businessman Mohammed Shiyam.
She was ordered to personally appear before the Court for allegedly threatening a witness in the murder trial. The wife of the former DIG, Shyamali P. Perera, was released after being reprimanded by the Magistrate, when the case was taken up at the Colombo Magistrate's Court yesterday (4), f

 Cabinet spokesman, Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that his son Ramith was a sleep walker and had even consulted doctors. He surmised that Ramith may have sleep walked during the-flight.
 
Addressing the weekly-Cabinet briefing today, the minister said that he was dismayed and disappointed by the virulent ‘media stir’ focusing on his son Ramith’s behaviour.

A prominent underworld drug-leader Mohammed Azmir alias 'Mamazmi', was shot dead last night at Borella, police said.

Initial report revealed that the suspect was arrested by the Special Task Force personnel with a weapon and some grenades in his possession during a raid in Maligawatta last night.

While the suspect was taking in a jeep, he had tried to attack an STF officer in the jeep forcing the STF personnel to fire in defence, a senior police official said.

They claim violation of rights by KDN and police who tried to stop the showing of a documentary on the Sri Lanka civil war.

Several human rights groups have condemned the Home Ministry (KDN) and the police for disrupting a private screening of a documentary film at the Chinese Assembly Hall last night and harassing the organisers and audience.
Representatives of the KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall Civil Right Committee (KLSCH CRC), Komas and Suaram told a press conference today that KDN officials and police barged

The Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission points out that there is a trend of local government politicians assaulting policemen.

Secretary of the Commission, Attorney-at-Law Nimal Punchihewa says that this has caused a lack of faith placed on the police by the general public.
Punchihewa notes that the Human Rights Commission has informed the Inspector General of Police in writing regarding this matter.

Parts of a skeleton including a skull and fragments of bone were found parcelled in a roadside drain on Sri Vihara Mawatha, Kohuwala today, Police Media Spokespersons SSP Buddhika Siriwardena told Ceylon Today Online.

A skull and fragments of a bone where discovered by Urban Council workers of a Dengue eradication program at 11:45 a.m. and was reported to the Kohuwela Police. 

The British Commonwealth is a political organisation which we have tried hard to comprehend, but failed despite even seeking the assistance from learned diplomats. Technically, today it can be defined as an intergovernmental organisation comprising 54 countries who are former members of the British Empire sans its recent members, Rwanda and Mozambique.

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President inviting the member countries when he visited Australia in 2011, to participate in the Commonwealth Summit to be held in Colombo in 2013

Just days after the Commonwealth Secretariat had backed holding the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka,  the Commonwealth Local Government Forum said Sri Lanak needs to be supported in it’s post war journey.

In a letter published in the London Financial Times, Carl Wright, Secretary General, Commonwealth Local Government Forum said that Sri Lanka and its democracy need active support as well as constructive criticism in the long journey out of civil war.

Reconciliation is a word abundantly used, but misunderstood in many circles. Most records indicate that a fourth century etymological development hails from a Latin root word reconciliāre, to bring together again, from re + conciliāre, to make friendly or become friendly with someone who has been  estranged or to re-establish friendly relations between parties, to settle a quarrel or difference, to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other.

The India government had made a petition in this regard to K.P alias  Kumaran Pathmanathan to make investigations by the Chennai Government  on the  former Indian Prime Minister Rajive Gandhi’s assassination. A report in this regard has been requested by the Indian central government.

The intelligence units of the Central Indian government had called a report on this from the Chennai government. Although the case has now been heard it is learnt that a complete investigation had not been made. In the petiti