The 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opened in Geneva today (07), with Sri Lanka’s record on human rights, reconciliation and accountability facing renewed international scrutiny.

Special security measures have been implemented around the prison ward where Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa is being held at the Colombo Remand Prison, Prisons Media Spokesman Senaka Palletenna said.

The Illegal Assets Investigation Division has frozen properties worth more than Rs. 130 million allegedly purchased with money earned through the illegal trafficking of narcotics.

The National Organiser of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Namal Rajapaksa is scheduled to attend Parliament tomorrow (8), following arrangements made to facilitate his participation in parliamentary sittings.

A meeting between UN Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche and Chief of Staff to the President Prabath Chandrakeerthi was held today (07) at the Presidential Secretariat.

The management of a company in Avissawella has been fined Rs. 40,000 by the Avissawella Magistrate’s Court for manufacturing and distributing bottled drinking water with counterfeit labels.

Oil prices were near six-week highs on Monday, creeping closer to $100 a barrel, as tit-for-tat strikes between the U.S. and Iran on vessels sailing in the Strait of Hormuz and other areas kept crude oil flows in the Middle East low.

Applications for the re-scrutiny of answer scripts of the 2026 Grade 5 Scholarship Examination are accepted from today (07), the Department of Examinations has announced.

A 46-year-old man known as “Bhootha Kaluwa,” the brother-in-law of alleged organized crime figure “Kos Malli,” has been hacked to death in Dehiwala early this morning, police stated.

A T-56 assault rifle, a repeater gun and a pistol have been recovered from a concealed underground cache at a cemetery in Hanwella, according to the Central Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB).

A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the fundamental rights of two petitioners were violated after the Court allegedly failed to hear a petition challenging the 22nd Amendment Bill to the Constitution presented to parliament by the government.

The Department of Meteorology has issued a warm weather advisory for several areas of the country, warning that the heat index—the temperature felt by the human body—is expected to reach the Caution level in some areas during the daytime tomorrow (08).

The Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to conduct a comprehensive study into the lack of preparedness to face Cyclone Ditwah recently questioned senior Sri Lanka Police officials who were involved in responding to the disaster.

The Colombo High Court has ordered that further evidence in the case filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) against former Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody over an alleged corruption charge be heard on October 5.

Steps are being taken to expand the Metro Bus Service beyond the Western Province, with plans to introduce the service in the Galle, Kandy and Jaffna regions, Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development Bimal Rathnayake stated.

Venerable Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero, who was arrested by the Batticaloa Police, has been remanded until tomorrow (07).

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that certain comments made on social media, particularly those targeting a child, a vulnerable person or a woman, clearly demonstrate the need for a cultured human being in society.

Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa states that the government is attempting to turn the judiciary into a tool of the President and the Executive through the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, thereby causing serious damage to judicial independence.