Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has requested the Power and Renewable Energy Ministry to submit a report to him on the Island-wide power failure that lasted for hours last evening.
The Island experienced a similar power black out few months back and the Prime Minister has ordered the investigations to examine any possible linkages among two incidents.
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has been released from a prison in the western Indian city of Pune. utt, 56, was sentenced for firearms offences linked to the 1993 Mumbai blasts which killed 257 people and injured 713.
He was convicted of buying firearms from the bombers but said the weapons were necessary in order to defend his family during the Hindu-Muslim rioting.
Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today announced his decision of the magisterial inquest into the death of Wasim Thajudeen and confirmed that his death was a murder.
The lawyer for a doctor in Australia who bludgeoned her sleeping husband to death with a mallet after years of abuse says his client believes she will be deported to Sri Lanka once she is released on parole, Australian media reports.
Dr. Chamari Liyanage, 36, stood trial for murdering her husband Dinendra Athukorala in their home in June 2014, but a Supreme Court jury convicted her of the lesser charge of manslaughter.