The wait for the 56 fishermen from Tamil Nadu – who were caught in Sri Lankan waters earlier this month – has only become longer, after the magistrate courts in Mannar and Kayts Island on Friday extended their remand.

On April 6, the Sri Lankan Navy arrested 30 fishermen from Rameswaram, while they were engaged in allegedly illegal fishing activity in Sri Lankan waters, north of Talaimannar. The case came up for hearing on April 18, and the fishermen's remand was extended to April 26.

Media should be made responsible for the Women and Child abuse

To prevent abuse of women it has to be commenced from home emphasised the Minister of Child development and Women affairs Minister Tissa Karaliyedda

He claimed that a person who loves and attached to his mother and sister dearly would never think of harming any woman. He said this while speaking at a ceremony held at the Auditorium of his Ministry of child development and women’s affairs.

The Canadian foreign minister tells Channel 4 News he is "appalled" the Commonwealth heads of government meeting will still take place in Sri Lanka despite concerns over human rights in the country.

Canada's foreign minister John Baird said it was "not a good day for the Commonwealth" that its secretariat was going ahead with plans to host the heads of government meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka in November.

Sri Lanka will also take on the chairmanship of the Commonwealth after the summit - amid

The central crime branch (CCB) has nabbed five people for alleged human trafficking and rescued 88 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from their clutches, police said on Friday.

The accused were caught on Tuesday from a boat parked at the Mangalore Port while they were illegally transporting the refugees, including 22 women and children, to Australia on the pretext of providing them employment, police sources told PTI.

Many disgruntled Golden Key depositors who breathed a sigh of relief following the Central Bank’s action plan to make repayments promptly have re-assessed their position and now protesting against the initiative saying it will swallow up their security deposits.
After an in-depth study and closer inspection of this plan, some depositors who have analysed it told the Business Times that they have been deprived of a large portion of their security deposits due to a 59 per cent slashing from the actual deposit value through vario

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) yesterday urged the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital authorities to implement their decision and ensure that the sister in charge of the operating theatre and a theatre nurse were transferred out.

GMOA Media spokesman Dr. Naveen de Zoysa said that the decision had been taken by an investigating body, appointed by the Hospital Director, following a complaint that a doctor in the theatre had not been given an apron.

The Northern fishing waters rendered bereft of its fertile aquatic wealth, mainly due to poaching from across the Palk Strait, will now rebound with the recent enforcement of a total ban on poaching and all prohibited methods of fishing, said Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Dr. Rajitha Senaratne in an interview with the Sunday Observer. Poaching has now stopped completely and the Northern fishermen could engage in fishing peacefully in their traditional fishing grounds, he said. The Navy has intensified patrolling

This is in response to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s rejoinder (‘The Problem with Mr. Guruparan’s ‘Tamil Civil Society’ view’) to my article titled ‘Much Ado About Nothing: The Northern Provincial Council Elections, 13th Amendment and the rationale for a Transitional Administration’. I am thankful to Dr. Jayatilleke for the engagement. There is a lot of rhetoric and conceptual hair splitting in his response. I respond to what I see as his substantive arguments.

Amnesty International will launch a new report next week documenting how the Sri Lankan government has allegedly stepped up its crackdown on dissenting views over the past years through threats, harassment, imprisonment and violent attacks.

The document, “Assault on Dissent”, reveals how the government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa is increasingly equating criticism with treason in a bid to tighten its grip on power, Amnesty International said in a media note today.

When they decided to have a meeting at their party office in the north of the island, the four Sri Lankan MPs probably didn’t expect that it would start raining concrete boulders.

Before they knew it, a mob of about 60 people had surrounded the building. After half an hour of sustained assault, the roof broke and the elected representatives found themselves sheltering in the archways of the doors, as if it were an earthquake. All the while the police looked on, doing nothing. At the end, they caught a few of the attacker