The owner of ‘Marusira.com’ from Kandy is remanded

Gayan Roshantha Silva of Dharmapala Mawatha, Kandy who is the owner of Marusira.com web site, who is suspected for supplying software enabling to hack web sites has been arrested and remanded by the Colombo High Courts.

Amnesty International has joined the calls for Commonwealth nations to relocate a major meeting from Sri Lanka, days after the Indian secretary general of the Commonwealth indicated that such a move would be rejected.

In a report titled “Assault on Dissent,” Amnesty International said the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November should be moved from Colombo in protest over the country’s human rights record. Human Rights Watch made a similar request in February.

The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) yesterday alleged that the electronic and print media were responsible for the increasing number of child abuse and rape cases in the country.

Addressing the workshop on ‘sensationalisation of mass media on child protection’ at the Grand Oriental Hotel, NCPA Chairperson Anoma Dissanayake questioned as to how the NCPA could put an end to child abuse and rape when the media was instrumental in encouraging the public through their reporting.

Eleven Sri Lankan fishermen were today arrested when they illegally entered the waters near Kakinada sea port in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district.

"The eleven Sri Lankan fishermen came in two boats with some equipment to venture into the sea. They entered illegally into the waters," Kakinada Marine police said.

Besides arresting the fishermen, two boats and some fishing-related equipment were seized, they said.

The Bishop of Galle has warned of threats posed to religious minorities by some groups including the Bodu Bala Sena which he has termed as a “Buddhist Taliban” operating in Sri Lanka.

The Fides Agency reported that Bishop Raymond Wickramasinghe, the Bishop of Galle, had raised the concerns in a message sent to the agency.

Bishop Wickramasinghe fears that – a few years after the end of the civil war – a new violence can tear apart society.

For this reason he has decided to re-launch t

The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Sri Lanka Ministry of Health to conduct a National Consultation on Birth Defects Prevention and Control in Colombo April 17-19. The workshop included presentations from CDC experts, providing a platform for health practitioners to discuss a strategic framework to monitor and prevent birth defects in Sri Lanka.  

The following is the full text of a speech made by Rev Duleep de Chickera, at a panel discussion held at the Press Institute in Colombo on April 8, on the topic ‘Religion Reconciliation and Future’.

I have some quick and brief comments. Some of these are comments that you have heard before. But they need to be restated when we address a topic like the one before us today. – Religion, reconciliation and future. I also have to say a few obvious things about religion, which to an audience like you may be, knowle

I have read carefully the essays The Colombo Telegraph (CT) recently carried on Sri Lanka’s foreign policy after May 2009. Whatever Dayan Jayatilleka’s (DJ) failures may be, and there are many as the commentators in the CT have graphically expressed, a lack of cunning is not among them .He has chosen only to comment obliquely ( ‘First Failure in Geneva,: Trap, Blunder or Model?’) on the long essay of Tissa Jayatilaka(TJ) that appeared in the CT (“Absence of ‘Balance’ in Sri Lanka’s Foreign

The government of Australia is providing AUD 1,000,000 (LKR 130 million) to improve planning and community resilience in four disaster prone cities, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya and Akkaraipattu. The latest funding is in addition to earlier Australian funding of AUD 1,000,000 in 2012 for disaster preparedness in the cities of Balangoda, Batticaloa, Kalmunai and Ratnapura.

The program will result in the development of “Disaster Resilient City Development Strategies” in each location. Commencing in April 2013, this t

The Hon, Deputy Minister for Higher Education, the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor of the Eastern University, Deans of Faculties, Heads of Departments, members of the academic staff, The Registrar and Bursar, the members of the non academic staff, other invited guests, the graduands, parents and well wishers, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank the Vice Chancellor for inviting me here today to deliver the convocation address.