The CID is investigating allegations that a top STF official is involved in an illegal gem mining racket at Thalduwa in Avissawella, say police sources.

Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa has handed over the organizing part of the joint opposition May Day rally at Kirulapone to his brother Basil Rajapaksa.

India has expressed concern over the Sri Lankan government’s having entered into pacts with China that compromise India’s national security, according to Indian media.

Three youths from the north who had gone missing in 2005 are found to have been imprisoned in the Maldives, according to their relatives.

In an urgent appeal to President Obama, two major Tamil groups in the United States Tamils for Obama and American Tamil Forum urged the United States to arrest former Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse who is reported to be currently visiting US.