Colombo Chief Magistrate - Gihan Pilapitiya today (09) ordered to release singer M.G. Dhanushka on a surety of Rs. 500,000.

Three more cabinet ministers sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago (09).

Gampaha Magistrate today (09) ordered to release former Deputy Minister Sarana Gunawardena on bail.

Strongly opposing suggestions for a domestic probe into the massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils during the 2009 military offensive, DMK president M Karunanidhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to agree to Colombo’s request to support a likely US resolution for such an investigation.

In view of the recent media reports on the steps taken by Attorney General Y.J.W. Wijayatilake, P.C. with regard to the Avant Garde case, as well as the investigation and prosecution of Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam alias Kumaran Padmanathan (KP), it has become necessary for the Attorney General's Department to clarify its position on these two matters, so that the public is accurately informed of the facts, states the Attorney General in a statement.

At the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva next week, the US is to sponsor a resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the Colombo government. This is despite wide recognition that Sri Lankan leaders are implicated in these war crimes.