Businessman Wasantha Perera threw a party on his birthday yesterday (06) for politicians, actors, actresses and other friends at Cey-Nor Thai restaurant.

Sri Lanka has the potential to become developed like Bangkok in another 10 to 15 years, says president of AVIC International Hotels Lanka Ltd., Zhong Yuan.

Written by Chintana Dharmadasa and sung by Citral Somapala, a song titled ‘Wilpattuwak Gena Eyi Kekkumak?’ focuses on the destruction of the Wilpattu forest reserve.

A team of lawyers have already been assigned the task of taking legal action against ‘Divaina Irida’ newspaper for publishing falsehoods to vilify the JVP and complaints would be filed at Sri Lanka press council and Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) against the newspaper, said the General Secretary of the JVP Tilvin Silva.

A UN official slammed Sri Lanka’s criminal justice system on Saturday, accusing police of sexually abusing suspects and still using torture seven years after the end of its ethnic war.

The CID has launched a broad investigation on a certain organised group who is attempting to drive the country towards instability by citing that a conflict situation is rising again in the Northern area and that the LTTE is reviving.