Domestic process taking shape
To include Commissions for Trust, Missing Persons
and Reparations:
Ranil to outline modalities to Parliament next
week:
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe will outline to Parliament the
process of setting up the proposed domestic mechanism to investigate
rights abuses during the period specified in the OHCHR report, upon
his return from the official visit to Japan next week.
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Govt. to issue certificates for the missing
The government intends issuing certificates to the families of
missing persons by the end of the year, paving the way for post
Geneva accountability action. Among the key commitments made by
Colombo during the recently concluded 30th session of the United
Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),
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Seya murder:
CID arrests Kondaya’s brother
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probing the murder of
Seya Sadewmi, the five-year –old girl from Kotadeniyawa , took into
custody the elder brother of Dunesh Priyashantha alias ‘Kondaya’, on
Friday. Police Spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara said he was being
detained for questioning.
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Paranagama defends Missing Persons Commission
Denounces calls for its disbanding :
Maxwell Parakrama Paranagama yesterday vouched for the credibility
of the investigations carried out by the Missing Persons Commission,
which he chairs, and dismissed calls to disband it to make way for a
more credible investigative mechanism. “When we invite about 250
people for oral submissions, nearly 1000 people come,
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Attempt on Maldivian President’s life:
Sri Lanka sends CID team to Male
Sri Lanka has sent a team of four detectives and forensic experts to
Male to assist in the suspected assassination bid on Maldivian
President Yameen Abdul Gayoom last week. The experts including
officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) left for
Male on October 01.
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President Maithripala Sirisena is in Thailand making a three-day official visit and attending the second Asia Cooperation Dialogue Summit. The Dialogue Summit that brings together 34 nations in the Asian region takes place from October 8 -10 in Bangkok under the theme "One Asia, Diverse Strength".
Official level discussions have commenced between Sri Lanka and Iran on reviving trade agreements that were signed between the two countries and will be put into operation soon after ironing out technicalities, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Rishad Bathiudeen said. 
Pakistan on Friday (September 30) officially postponed the 19th SAARC Summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 9 and 10. A new set of dates for holding the Summit will be announced soon through the Chair of SAARC (Nepal), reports said. 
Due to the prevailing drought, water levels of the main reservoirs have dropped to half its capacity, with authorities warning that drastic measures may need to be taken if water is to be continuously released from the reservoirs for power generation. 
To avert a possible dengue outbreak in the next three months, when the number of mosquito breeding sites are likely to surge with the monsoon rains, the Dengue Control Unit of the Health Ministry will launch an island-wide Dengue Control Week starting on Tuesday, September 27 to Monday, October 3.
Sir Richard Jolly, former Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, and Special Adviser to the Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (1996 to 2000), and Principal Coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report will deliver a lecture on, “Development: Can Sri Lanka be a model for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs)?” on September 28 at 5 pm at the BMICH Committee Room D, on the invitation of the Gamani Corea Foundation. 
Richmondite Charith Asalanka joined the elite band of school cricketers by winning the coveted Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year 2016 title for the second year in succession emulating the feats of former Sri Lankan greats Arjuna Ranatunga, 1980/82' ( Ananda) Roshan Mahanama, 1983/84'(Nalanda) Thilan Samaraweera 1994/95' ( Ananda) 'Lahiru Peiris 2004/2005 (St.Peter's) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa 2010'2011 (Royal) who had also won the award twice .
Cricketing legend and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will grace the occasion at the 38th Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year awards night scheduled to take place at the Galadari Hotel on September 20. 
Stern action will be taken against traders who sell sugar above the controlled price of Rs. 95. Instructions have been given to the relevant authorities to launch island-wide search operations, a press communique from the Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake said. 
Refuting speculations, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said, no decision has been taken to impose power cuts on account of the current dry spell in the country. 
