A Fundamental Rights (FR) petition has been filed with the Supreme Court seeking an order that the fundamental human rights have been violated through the decision by the respondents including former President Ranil Wickremesinghe to issue liquor licenses in violation of the Excise Act after the 2024 Presidential Election was announced. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (6:15 PM)
X-Press Feeders has hit out at the "bureaucratic and legal hurdles" that have caused severe delays in the case of the X-Press Pearl, a boxship that caught fire in 2021 causing one of Sri Lanka s worst-ever environmental disasters. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (5:07 PM)
K. M. Mahinda Siriwardena, who was appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, has re-assumed duties in his post today (20). MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (12:13 PM)
Former Minister Harin Fernando, who was arrested this morning (20), has been released on bail, after being produced before the Badulla Magistrate s Court. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (3:33 PM)
Former State Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan has left the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), a short while ago, after providing a statement for around 5 hours. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (6:09 PM)
The Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence given to Geeganagamage Amarasiri alias Julampitiye Amare who was accused of shooting and killing of two persons at a JVP rally in June 2012. MORE..
20 Nov 2024 (6:07 PM)