Sampath Athukorala released on bail

Southern Provincial Councilor Sampath Athukorala, who was in custody for allegedly uploading obscene posts on President Maithripala Sirisena on the internet, was released on bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate today. MORE...

October 5, 2015  11:20 am|

Sampath Athukorala remanded over obscene FB post

The Colombo Chief Magistrate today ordered Southern Provincial Council member Sampath Athukorala to be remanded till October 05, for allegedly uploading defamatory posts on President Maithripala Sirisena on the internet. MORE..

October 1, 2015  01:21 pm|

iPhone users can now finally use WhatsApp on a desktop

More than six months after WhatsApp allowed Android, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone users to use the instant messenger in a browser, the Facebook-owned company has now made the feature available to iPhone users. MORE..

August 20, 2015  04:31 pm|

Sri Lanka’s Dance with the Devil of Universal Internet Access

Who today is against Internet access and digital connectivity? These are ideas and technical buzzwords that resonate across the political spectrum; politically-neutral words that are capable of uniting Left and Right and are consequently easily adopted by both the establishment and its opposition. MORE..

August 13, 2015  04:04 pm|

UPFA is not divided at all - Mahinda

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today denied that the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is divided and said that the reason he did not form his own party to contest the election is because he was not ready to abandon the SLFP for his personal gain. MORE..

July 23, 2015  12:13 pm|

Desperate Brits buy organs through Sri Lankan ‘fixers’

Terminally ill British citizens are buying organs over Facebook from ‘fixers’ in Sri Lanka, who organize transplantations for as little as $75,000, a trade that has come to be known as ‘transplant tourism.’ MORE...

July 20, 2015  03:20 pm|

Sri Lankan gets death sentence for killing mistress

A Sri Lankan national, who murdered his mistress while his wife was abroad on holiday, has been sentenced to death in Bahrain. MORE..

May 1, 2015  12:33 pm|

Facebook and Instagram are down

Several internet users on Twitter are reporting that Facebook and Instagram are down, we checked both the sites on our browsers and it seems like it is indeed the case, with connection timeout messages on both the websites. The app is not refreshing with new feeds either. MORE...

January 27, 2015  12:22 pm|