COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had a heated exchange with his justice minister on Thursday morning over the removal of Gnanasara Thero’s robes in prison, according to sources in the President’s Office, hours before he was scheduled to meet senior representatives of the country’s principal Buddhist monastic orders over the same controversy. The sources told Jaffna Monitor that Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara was responsible for the decision that led to Galagoda Ath

KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka — A 19-year-old student at a prominent school in eastern Sri Lanka was found dead at his family home in Kalmunai, just four months after the death of his father, police said. The student, identified as Iruthayanathan Amrisan, was studying for his Advanced Level examinations at Carmel Fatima National School in Kalmunai, in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province. His body was discovered at a house on Vanniyar Road, within the jurisdiction of Kalmunai Headquarters Police in Ampara Distr

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan diplomat helped save a domestic worker from execution in Saudi Arabia in the mid-2000s by going around formal diplomatic channels and sending a personal appeal to the Saudi royal court, according to a human rights activist who said the diplomat described the episode to him. The activist, Muheed Jeeran, who has worked on cases involving Sri Lankan migrant workers in the Persian Gulf, said the diplomat, Nilanthini Arulpiragasam, persuaded a Sri Lankan employee of