The general secretary of the Bodu bala Sena, Galagodatte Gnanasara will be charged with trespassing and making defamatory remarks, the Daily Mirror reports.

Colombo Fort magistrates ordered the police to file the charges against Gnanasara and several other monks, who will be required to attend court on June 16.

The commander of the Sri Lankan navy and other senior military members visited a United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, as it passed by the region earlier this month.

The justice and defence ministries have failed to comply with requests by the controversial Presidential Commission on Disappearances to release a list of detainees in the custody of the government, the DailyFT reported.

In a press statement regarding an interim report it submitted to President Sirisena earlier this month, the commission said it made written requests to the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Justice to release to the commission "names of persons who were in custody of prisons, detention camps, refugee camps, and rehabilitation centres".

“While noting with regret that such requests had not been complied with, the Commission decided to notice the respective officers to appear before the Commission in terms of the powers vested in the Commission by the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry Act,” the report said.

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena says it is his duty to steer the SLFP to victory at the election later this year.

"The SLFP which lost the Jan. 08 election should be geared to win elections again and it is my duty to see to it to ensure that the party will be able to do so. I have already commenced this work and worked hard since the day I assumed duties of the office of the President," President Sirisena said at an SLFP meeting in Galle.