The Moratuwa university says it has banned Muslim students from wearing the face veil owing to security concerns.

The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. A.K.W. Jayawardane told the Colombo Gazette that two Muslim girls had made a request to be allowed to wear the face veil, which covers the face except the eyes.

However he said the students were informed that the face veil cannot be worn as there are concerns unknown elements may enter the university with their faces covered and that could raise a security issu

Statements have been recorded from over ten individuals but there is yet to be a breakthrough on investigations on the murder of Delft Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, Daniel Rexian, Police spokesperson SSP Ajith Rohana said.
Speaking to The Nation, SSP Rohana said the investigations were carried out by the CID. “There has been no breakthrough. But the investigations are continuing,” he said. Meanwhile, the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) said it was unaware of the motive behind the killing and hence it was diffic

In a startling revelation, IT security experts claimed that 99 per cent of sophisticated phones used in Sri Lanka are vulnerable to phone hacking.

This includes top level politicians, senior officers of armed services, high profile government officials and all the other parties who deal with highly confidential information, they warned.“Sri Lanka,” an information security expert said, “is a country that pays zero attention to phone security. And that makes the country vulnerable to phone hacking.”

By refusing to implement the Mahinda Chinthana in the Northern province, the Tamil National Alliance and Northern Province Chief Minister Wigneshvaran are attempting to implement a 'Magadi Chinthana' in the Northern province, Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Minister Douglas Devananda said. Discussing various issues relating to the Tamil community in an interview with the Sunday Observer, Minister Devananda said that the TNA was the spoke in the wheel and prevented the people in the North of benefiting from

Students’ attached to Dambulla Palvehera agriculture school got into a brawl on 29th November. This fight was occurred between first and second year students, out news sources said.

Following the incident 13 male students and four female students admitted the Dambulla hospital.

When Sri Lanka's former President J R Jayewardene was accused of showing scant respect for human rights in the early days of the country's separatist war, he said in the 1980s, "All is fair in love and war." Quoting the 16th century English poet John Lyly, the erudite president was able to silence some of his critics.

But President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who last week assumed the title of Commonwealth chairperson-in-office, has no such excuses. He is being cornered.

British Prime Minister David Cameron today demanded a "transparent, credible and independent" probe into the alleged massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils, days after he pressed President Mahinda Rajapaska for an enquiry into rights violations during the final days of the civil war in 2009.

During the CHOGM summit in Colombo this month, he had said that if the Sri Lankan government fails to launch an independent enquiry by March 2014, UK will call for an international enquiry through the United Nations.

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Sri Lanka begins war tally after international pressure AFP Sri Lanka begins war tally after international pressure

Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka was to begin compiling a death toll from its ethnic conflict Thursday as it seeks to fend off growing pressure over allegations of mass killings at the end of the war.

Some 16,000 officials are expected to fan out across the island at the start of a six-month operation to compile a definitive toll from the conflict, which ran for -co

A New York-based human rights group is calling on the prime minister to retract some comments he made during a recent visit to Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Human Rights Watch Australia say Tony Abbott's comments appeared to be condoning the use of toture during the years of Sri Lanka's civil war.

Bharat Joshi, the new British deputy high commissioner to India has stressed that he believed that his country was right in attending the recently concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, the Times of India reported.

Addressing the Indian media for the first time after taking charge as the new envoy, Joshi said, “Our Prime Minister David Cameron has demonstrated our human rights concerns by visiting the displaced Tamils in Jaffna. Cameron has even called on Sri Lanka to address the human