Major General Milinda Peiris, the Vice Chancellor at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), has been appointed as the new Chief of Staff (COS) of the Sri Lanka Army effective from 12 February 2016.

Former chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Chandra Jayaratne has told the minister of finance and the governor of the Central Bank that they were accountable for their unwise and unacceptable actions and inactions.

Pablo de Greiff, the UN Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, has said that Sri Lanka should not be hasty in trying to meet its commitments to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in regard to issues of transitional justice.

Last evening (11), U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Atul Keshap joined Minister of Post, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs M.H.A. Haleem and Imam Moulavi M.S.M Thasleem for a tour of Colombo’s historic Grand Mosque.

The SLFP central committee that met today (12) decided to suspend the membership of seven of its local government members with immediate effect.