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Many Sri Lanka mercenaries have become Russian citizens: Foreign Minister

"If you are no longer a citizen of Sri Lanka we lose the right to represent you"

June 28, 2024 1 min read

Joint working committee with Russia proposed to deal with Sri Lanka mercenaries

To discuss compensation for deceased and wounded, plight of uncontactable personnel, early termination of contracts

June 28, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka Navy recruiting cadre to safeguard country’s Exclusive Economic Zone

"We need to strengthen both navy and the air force. We are in a strategic position globally."

June 27, 2024 2 min read

India supports Sri Lanka Coast Guard to boost maritime security

Coast Guard Ship Suraksha was also gifted to Sri Lanka by India in October 2017

June 23, 2024 1 min read
Damage control: Sri Lanka president visits war veterans

President Anura Disanayake has visited Mihindu Seth Madura

Sri Lanka's Defence Cooperation MoU with India

The MoU was signed when PM Modi was on an official visit to Sri Lanka last month

Sri Lanka Air Force celebrations to be joined by IAF aerobatics teams

Fixed wing and helicopter aerobatics squadrons, multi-role combat aircraft, maritime reconnaissance aircraft backed up ...

February 28, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Easter attacks commission recommends criminal proceedings against President Sirisena

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on the 2019 Easter bombings has recommended that criminal proceedings be in...

February 23, 2021 4 min read
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Committee to study PCoI report panned by Church and Opposition

The President’s Committee will implement only what President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants from the Easter Sunday inquiry r...

February 23, 2021 3 min read

Yet another committee appointed to study the report of the Easter Sunday attacks PCoI

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed yet another committee to examine the report of the Presidential Commission of...

February 20, 2021 3 min read

Hisbullah and one other remanded for alleged role in Easter Bomb attacks

Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah has been remanded until March 3 by the Colombo Magistrate today, taking him out of detention in t...

February 18, 2021 2 min read

Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah may be produced in Court tomorrow

The Attorney General has ordered the Police Department to produce detained lawyer Hijaz Omar Hizbullah before a Magistra...

February 17, 2021 3 min read

AKD demands govt publicise Easter bombings commission report

Sri Lanka must publicise the findings of a presidential commission of inquiry that probed the 2019 Easter bombings, Nati...

February 12, 2021 3 min read

Easter bombings: Cardinal prepared to go to int'l court if Sri Lanka fails to deliver justice

If Sri Lanka fails to bring the perpetrators and masterminds of the 2019 Easter bombings to justice, international judic...

February 11, 2021 2 min read

Sumanthiran says Minister Weerasekara is responsible if he is harmed

TNA veteran and lawyer M A Sumanthiran says he is under threat and should not have had his Commando guards removed

Imesh Ranasinghe
February 10, 2021 5 min read

Sumanthiran’s STF guard withdrawn

“No reason to withdraw security has been given to me,” the TNA MP told reporters

February 8, 2021 1 min read
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Core elements of a Sri Lanka state; public goods, national defence, justice: Arthashastra

Sri Lanka needs the state to provide public goods, including national defence, law and order and justice; to control mar...

Rohan Samarajiva
February 8, 2021 9 min read
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Sri Lanka President vows to punish Bondscammers and Easter attack planners

In his Independence Day address President Rajapaksa said he has advised the Attorney General’s Department to swiftly a...

February 4, 2021 3 min read
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Pillayan released due to CA decision – Lawyer

The release of Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan and others from the case ends the possibility of justice for the family of ...

Arjuna Ranawana
January 14, 2021 3 min read
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Three Sri Lankans charged by US for deaths of 5 Americans in Easter blasts

The United States has charged three Sri Lankans being held in Sri Lanka with aiding a terrorist group in the attacks on ...

January 9, 2021 2 min read

Public Security Minister lays out accusations against detained lawyer Hisbullah

Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah had spoken with the Easter Sunday attackers on three occasions by phone, Minister of Public Secur...

January 7, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka army chief promoted to four star General

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promoted army chief Shavendra Silva to a four star general effective from D...

December 29, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka President, Ajit Doval discuss security, infrastructure

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Indian security advisor Ajit Doval has had talks over security and infrastruc...

November 29, 2020 1 min read

Internal issues in his administration did not cause Easter attacks - Sirisena

Former President Maithripala Sirisena is rejecting the notion that tensions within the Yahapalanaya administration led t...

November 26, 2020 2 min read

Sarath Weerasekara likely new Cabinet Minister for Public Security

Sri Lanka’s President is expanding his Cabinet of Ministers by creating two new portfolios that of Public Security and...

November 23, 2020 2 min read

CID questions MP Eran over statements made about Easter attacks

Opposition Member of Parliament, former Minister Eran Wickremeratne is claiming that he was summoned to the Criminal Inv...

November 16, 2020 1 min read