COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's Department of Prisons has stopped sending inmates from three Colombo prisons to court after measles was confirmed among detainees, the department's spokesman said. No inmates from the Colombo Remand Prison, Magazine Prison or Welikada Prison were produced in court on Monday, Senaka Pallethenna, a commissioner of prisons and the department's media spokesman, said. The department has notified the courts concerned in writing, and the suspension is temporary, he sai

ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka – A former soldier on trial for raping a doctor inside her official quarters at Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital has been arrested again after a security camera recorded him climbing into a house in Galnewa through a bathroom window, police said. Police have asked the court to revoke his bail. K.B. Madhuranga Ratnayake, 35, known locally as "Bunty," was taken into custody by Galnewa police on the night of Nov. 6. Police said the footage showed him entering through the wind

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Japan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka on Thursday highlighted plans to supply unmanned aerial vehicles to the Sri Lanka Navy and a new exchange programme for military personnel. Both are part of a security relationship that Tokyo has widened over the past year. The ambassador, Akio Isomata, described the initiatives at a reception the Japanese Embassy in Colombo held for the 72nd anniversary of the founding of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. Guests included Sri Lanka’s deputy defenc

On Oct. 5, Niroshan Arumainayagam was on the telephone from Switzerland with the woman he was going to marry. Anne Laksha Ignatius was telling him about the trouble a former student had been causing her. Then, he says, she heard shouting, told him she would go and see what was happening, and the call was cut off. She did not call back. Ms. Ignatius, a culinary and hospitality instructor born in 1994, was stabbed to death that evening at her family’s home on Temple Road in Nallur, Jaffna. Her mo