The President's official website came under a hacker attack late last evening.

The person who badly assaulted ex UNP MP Dinesh Dodamgoda two days ago has been produced before courts and remanded for 14 days.

The Maldives' dissident former president met opposition groups in neighbouring Sri Lanka on Friday to hatch a plan to topple strongman president Abdulla Yameen, opposition sources told AFP.

Sri Lanka highly appreciates China's assistance in developing key areas of the country including the Colombo Port and has allocated 15,000 acres in the southern coast of Hambantota for further Chinese investment, a Sri Lankan minister said on Friday.

Daisy Forrest, the grandmother of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, has been issued notice to appear before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on August 31 to give a statement regarding a property in Mount Lavinia in relation to an ongoing investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The army intelligence officer who was accused over the assault on the former editor of the Rivira newspaper, Upali Tennakoon, has been identified by the veteran journalist and his wife in the identification parade at the Gampaha Magistrate’s Court today.