Captors have demanded a large sum of extortion money from relatives to release a Sri Lankan abducted in Nigeria, reports say.

You have almost certainly done just about every poo in your life the wrong way.

The International Truth & Justice Project calls on the government of Sri Lanka to undertake credible investigations into the forced disappearance of the more than a hundred people who disappeared while surrendering to the military on this day six years ago and to indict, prosecute and convict those responsible.

Security has been strengthened for the Jaffna court, which takes up the case pertaining to the rape and murder of a student of Pungudutivu Vidyalaya in Kayts.

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa will be given nominations, if he contests the upcoming general election, without summoning him before a nomination board, says SLFP general secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa.