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Colombo Chief Magistrate, Rashmi Singappuli, yesterday (20), ordered Cinnamon Garden Police to arrest the anonymous telephone callers who made death threats to Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri, President of Federation ofandnbsp;University Teachers'andnbsp;Associationandnbsp;(FUTA), and produce
Police have commenced investigations into an anonymous phone call which had warned of bombs placed at the Gampaha High Court and Magistrates Court premises.
Gampaha Magistrate has been closed due to a bomb threat short while ago.andnbsp;An anonymous caller had said that there is bomb in the Gampaha magistrate building.
A mini arms cache that included an assault rife and over hundred rounds of live ammunition was recovered from an abandoned house at Ottamawadi in Valachcheni in Batticaloa earlier today. The detection was made by a naval team who had searched the complex following an anonymous tip-off, a senior
Since 19 June 2012, human rights defender and Teachers Union leader Dr Nirmal Dewasiri has been subjected to surveillance and intimidation. Nirmal Dewasiri is the President of the Federation of University Teachers Unions (FUTA) and the Secretary of the Arts Faculty Teachers’ Association of the University of Colombo (AFTU-CU). He has been active in campaigning for ...
Sri Lankans can now buy digital music and movies from Apple’s iTunes Store, the Malaysian insider reported. Music and movies are a new addition to the iTunes Store for 12 countries in Asia, which include Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Users in these markets could only download and purchase apps f...
The UN should not be taking the side of the bullies, nor should they be adding to the confusion and speculation by failing to renew Lee’s accreditation. As for the UNCA; their role is to stand up for its members, not to expel them and we can see no justification for the continuation of this ...
The skulls of three animals have been removed from the cool storage room at the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala, a senior official said today. The skulls belonged to a Lion, Jaguar and a Leopard, Zoo Director, B. Gunaratne told Timesonline. He said one person, a minor employee at the Zoo has been arrested in this connection. He added that the robbery was discovered following an anon...
Are you in need of advice? Do you, perhaps, have something that’s bothering you which you can’t share with your friends and family? Write to Aunty Pat and she will answer in her no-nonsense style, just like one of your own aunties. Feel free to write in with a pseudonym if you’d like to remain ...
“If we can’t think for ourselves, if we are unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power”. – Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Gen. Fonseka was freed not because President Rajapaksa experienced a sudden democratic-epiphany or embraced the ‘quality of mercy’. The politico-electorally disabling nature ...
The government continued to arbitrarily detain, torture or ill-treat people and subject people to enforced disappearance. It failed to address most instances of impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The government rejected repeated allegations of war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict that ended in 2009, prompting Amnesty International to ...
By Raisa Wickrematunge Mannar Bishop Rev. Rayappu Joseph has been questioned by the police on his statement to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) regarding disappearances. The Bishop was among several people, including government officials, who had given statements to the LLRC during its public sittings. Bishop Joseph said that police officers had visited ...
“In recent weeks the Embassy has received several anonymous letters from Muslim groups alleging that they are being targeted for abduction for ransom.
23 March 2012 – The UN’s human rights chief today warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan human rights defenders in the wake of a resolution calling on its Government to probe alleged abuses during the country’s civil war. The warning from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, follows the ...
A staff nurse of Changi General Hospital, Singapore who was allegedly molested by a doctor from Sri Lanka, was reportedly ‘advised’ by the hospital not to lodge a police report against the culprit, according to an informant who wishes to remain anonymous. A resident physician from Sri
The High Commissioner for Human Rights today warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan human rights defenders in the aftermath of Thursday’s adoption by the Human Rights Council of a resolution on Sri Lanka, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville said. “During this Human Rights Council session, there has been an unprecedented and...
The Sri Lankan ambassador in Geneva Tamara Kunanayakam has received an anonymous threatening letter which is being followed up by the police and UN security, the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said today. Meanwhile the High Commissioner for Human Rights today also warned
By Indika Sri Aravinda The Carlton Sports Network (CSN), owned by the Mahinda Rajapaksa family, has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 2012 London Olympics. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has already paid for and obtained the exclusive rights for the broadcast and stands to lose financially if it gives the rights to another ...
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Kill them out of the way… And let me hear their everlasting grunts and whines no more!” Shelley (Œdipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant) Abductions in the South continue unabated, even as the Resolution on Sri Lanka awaits a vote in Geneva. Can there be a more damning measure of Rajapaksa-addiction to ...
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
By Gayan Kumara WeerasinghaK. Shantha, a married father of one who had been considered missing since 2003, was revealed to have been murdered in his village of Neluwa, Nakanda instead. Police had received an anonymous tip-off on February 20, on the 119 emergency hotline, informing them that Shantha
A Sri Lankan Government delegation has raised awareness in the UN Human Rights Commissioner about Darusman report and the prevailing situation in the country. The delegation now in Geneva led by Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday met with Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay. They informed her about the prevailing situation in the country. Speaking ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of his office’s emails on Monday.
Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own cloth. President of the United States Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India said that:”I am mindful that I ...
By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe Attorney-at-Law The Supreme One said : “I am made evident by my own power, and as often as there is a decline of virtue and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, I make myself evident and thus I appear from age to age for the preservation of the ...
Further repression of media, civil society, minorities (New York) – The Sri Lankan government in the past year failed to advance justice and accountability for the victims of the country’s 26-year-long civil conflict, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and east became more open, the government deepened repression of basic f...
New York 23 January 2012:The Sri Lankan government in the past year failed to advance justice and accountability for the victims of the country’s 26-year-long civil conflict, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and east became more open, the government deepened repression of basic freedoms throughout ...
Professor R.O Thattil who introduced the z-score system to Sri Lanka has received death threats from anonymous callers, the Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) claimed today.
By Easwaran Rutnam The second biggest shareholder of Hunter & Co. Plc has accused the board of mismanaging funds and failing to show accounts for funds given by the shareholders for a project. Talib T. Al-Nakib, the second largest shareholder in Hunter & Co. Plc, the parent company of Lanka Canneries, Sri Lanka’s largest food ...