Police should be introduced with a new way of how to tackle protests and other disturbances, says National Police Commission secretary Ariyadasa Cooray.

Yasara Abeynayake, one-time girlfriend of ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second son Yoshitha, has questioned as to why it was only she who has to undergo problems, as he has had many girlfriends other than her.

Authorities are yet to remove the barriers to enable Tamil poet V.I.S. Jeyapalan to travel to Sri Lanka, despite a government invitation to him for a visit after he was denied visa.

Yesterday (12) afternoon’s talks for three hours with the prime minister on several demands by the government, semi-government and private sector trade unions alliance have failed, said the alliance convener Saman Ratnapriya, stressing that the strike action planned for December 15 would go ahead as scheduled.

Taxes on vehicles as proposed by Budget 2016 will not be reduced or scrapped, Finance minister Ravi Karunanayake said.

The computer literacy of men is higher to that of women in Sri Lanka, according to a research report.

The Court of Appeal has ordered to report the progress of seeking the public opinion with regard to the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report over the Colombo Port City Project's initial phase, reports say.

A mechanism similar to the Parliament national list is to be introduced to appoint women to Local Government bodies, reports say.