DIG Vaas Gunawardena who was arrested over the murder of a businessman in Dompe has been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital due to an illness, hospital sources confirmed.
He was admitted to Ward 42 while the DIG was further remanded until June 25 by the Colombo Additional Magistrate A.M. Shabdeen, his lawyer Ajith Pathirana told Ada Derana.

DIG Gunawardena was arrested on June 10 and was being questioned under a 72-hour detention order, Police said.

Minister of External Affairs, Prof. G.L. Peiris, who is currently on an official visit to Slovania, briefed the government on the implementation of the proposals contained in the Report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, and explained the basis of Sri Lanka’s reservations with regard to recent initiatives concerning the country in the Human Rights Council, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has defended her government’s decision to leave the bodies of drowned asylum-seekers in the ocean following criticism from Australian Tamils more would have been done had they been Australians, the AFP news agency reported.

An extensive three-day air-and-sea search for an asylum-seeker boat, which is presumed to have capsized near Christmas Island with at least week, failed to find any survivors.

Meeting with some of the inhabitants of Ashraf Nagar, Ampara district.    

Christine Robichon, the Ambassador of France to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, has been briefed on land issues in the Eastern Province, the French Embassy in Colombo said today.

The Embassy said that during a visit to the Eastern Province, the Ambassador paid particular attention to the relations between ethnic and religious communities and to land related issues.

While the CID has started questioning DIG Vass Gunawardena on an alleged murder of a businessman last month, an application has been filed before the Appeal Court seeking a justification from the former Attorney General as to why he failed to indict the DIG for allegedly abducting  Malabe IT university student Nipuna Ramanayake and assaulting him.

Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Vaas Gunawardena has been arrested over the murder of a businessman from Bambalapitiya.

The DIG was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department after he was extensively questioned this evening over the incident.

A police Sub Inspector (SI) and two other policemen were arrested last week over the same murder.

The United States brought to the notice of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last week, what it says is a continuation of violations of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, and reprisals against human rights defenders, members of civil society, and journalists in Sri Lanka.

In a statement at the general debate on human rights situations requiring council attention, the US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Eileen Donahoe said that there have been no credible investigations or prosecutions for

Sri Lankan authorities should challenge a parliamentarian’s claim as to the whereabouts of a political cartoonist who was forcibly disappeared in 2010 and provide information on his fate, Human Rights Watch said today.

Sri Lankan lawmaker Arundika Fernando told Sri Lanka’s Parliament on June 5, 2013, that Prageeth Ekneligoda, a cartoonist and government critic who has not been seen since leaving work on January 24, 2010, is currently living in hiding in France.

Deputy Inspector General Gamini Navaratna says that nine SOCO officers charged with indiscipline have been removed. He said this in an event held at Police Headquarters on Friday.

The passing out ceremony of twenty one SOCO officers who completed their training was held on Friday. Deputy Inspector General, Gamini Navaratna expressed this view

The transport of cattle for slaughter from Pollonaruwa is to be banned from July, officials said today.

The decision was taken at the District Development Committee meeting held today.

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena, who was at the meeting, had issued the instructions to ban the transport of cattle from Pollonaruwa.