Colombo Chief JMO Ajith Tennakoon yesterday informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris that former Sri Lanka rugby star Wasim Thajudeen had not been driving his vehicle at the time of his death.The initial verdict was that Thajudeen had died of injuries sustained in a car accident.Tennakoon told the Colombo Additional Magistrate that the former rugby […]

I want to raise the question of the persons in custody – detainees. I was extremely happy to listen to the Statement of the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was a very progressive and a very positive Statement. Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, we expect that you will be in a position to fulfill the various […]

After May 2009 a youth from the Tamil Community has taken his life for a ‘cause,’ according to Tamil politicians and Tamil media. Rajeswaran Senthuran, a 17-year-old student of Kokkuvil Hindu College in Jaffna had allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of an express train from Colombo on November 26, a sentimentally important day […]

The death of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen, whose burnt body was found in a vehicle near the Shalika Grounds in Narahenpita, was pronounced a murder in the final report submitted to Court today by a board of medical officers led by the Colombo Chief JMO, Dr. Ajith Tennakoon. Complaints had been lodged with the CID that […]

( Subramaniam Nidikesan; Image – Radio Gagana) A Tamil political detainee, held in a rehabilitation camp under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, was robbed by police while he on day release to visit his sick daughter at their home in Chavakachcheri, Jaffna, Sri Lanka Mirror reported. Subramaniam Nidikesan made a complaint to the Jaffna Human […]

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne strongly criticised a strike by doctors in state hospitals who are demanding they continue to get cars without paying the taxes that other people pay. Senaratne, who is also government spokesman, said the government could not afford to continue with tax-free privileges for a select few. To […]

“To develop a graduate who will contribute to fulfil the health requirements of the individual and of the community with competence, compassion and care” -Mission statement – Handbook (2014) for Students of Colombo Medical Faculty. I respect the medical profession when it respects the “Oath of Hippocrates“. I will respect them if they stand for […]

Finance Minister Karunanayake yesterday took a swipe at former President and Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa, saying he was drawing two salaries. Speaking during the second reading of the budget, Karunanayake said Rajapaksa had drawn both his MP salary and his full pension benefits as the former President since he won a seat in the […]

(File photo) STATEMENT BY WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS. Death Sentence Imposed on a Sri Lankan Migrant Worker in Saudi Arabia We the undersigned express our deep dismay and distress that as a yet unnamed Sri Lankan housemaid living in Saudi Arabia has been found guilty of adultery and has been sentenced […]

By Australian Advocacy for Good Governance in Sri Lanka. A hard-hitting UN Human Rights Council report in September this year contained details of numerous allegations of what it said could amount to war crimes committed during the last phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war that ended in May 2009. Presenting the report to the Council, […]

AFP/ Former president Chandrika Kumaratunga, who heads the office of national unity and reconciliation, said her work cannot be done without justice for victims of the 37-year conflict that ended in May 2009. “We have ended the war nearly seven years ago, but we have not won the peace,” Kumaratunga told reporters. “No reconciliation is […]

COLOMBO, Nov 30 Sri Lanka’s consumer prices in November rose to 10-month high of 3.1 percent from a year earlier, the Department of Census and Statistics said on Monday. In October, prices rose 1.7 percent from a year earlier ending a three-month streak of falling prices. On a month-on-month basis, the Colombo Consumer Price Index […]