Senior journalist Sri Nimal Padmakumara has sought a recommendation from minister John Amaratunga if he was a person qualified to use a small vehicle.

Sri Lankan shares edged down on Thursday, posting their lowest close in nearly five weeks, as rising interest rates weighed on risky assets, while lack of new catalysts also dented sentiment.

“Ma…dad won’t be coming with us when we leave, will he?” asks a little girl to her pregnant mother. It’s the sort of question that is asked a lot in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka -where most families have ‘missing’ members. The war has ended but the troubles haven’t. That’s what activist Sherine Xavier wanted to tell the outside world through her film, ‘Muttruppulliya’ (Is it the full stop).

Sri Lanka performed final Buddhist rites at the site of last month's massive landslide Thursday and ended the search for some 100 people believed to have been buried under the broken earth.

Colombo additional magistrate Thilina Gamage, sent on compulsory leave over a charge of having kept a baby elephant without a license, has been granted bail.