A distilleries company owned by former Trade Minister Johnston Fernando is said to have evaded paying taxes for the past seven months running into more than Rs.80 million.

A Sri Lankan airlines flight stewardess met with a tragic death yesterday (January 30) before she was to board the plane on a flight from Qatar to Colombo.

Misuse of luxury buses by the Rajapaksa administration during the Commonwealth Heads of State meeting in Colombo in November 2013 has come under investigation by the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The United States of America is ready to submit another proposal to the United Nations Human Rights Council citing Sri Lanka as the respondent.

It is set to be presented at the Council's session in Geneva in March.

The proposal is said to be an extension of what was submitted in 2012 and 2013.

The US State Department has said that it wants to make certain that a civil conflict will not arise once again and hence the reason for pressing ahead with the new proposal.

Meanwhile the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Bishwal is expected in Sri Lanka today (January 31) to finalise more details of the proposal.

Bishwal is scheduled to meet high ranking government officials in Colombo and then proceed to Jaffna for further discussions

She will then proceed to Britain on February 3.

Former Chief Justice Mohan Peiris is facing a serious charge of misconduct on his part which was committed by him yesterday, srilankamirror learns.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe told Parliament today (January 30) that the manner in which chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake was removed was unjust while the conduct of her replacement Mohan Peiris to cling onto the post was appalling.

Former President's son MP Namal Rajapaksa has said that his younger siblings - Yoshitha and Rohitha (whom he affectionately refers to as 'Yo' and 'Ro') have been told to keep away from practices until further notice.