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Sri Lanka, India launch maritime rescue coordination centre

The MRCC was constructed with a 6 million dollar grant from India.

June 20, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka calls applications for National Police Commission vacancy

The commission consists of 7 members of which two members are yet to be appointed,

June 19, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka to investigate SIS, CNI actions prior to Easter attack

Whether adequate actions were taken by State Intelligence Service, Chief of National Intelligence

June 13, 2024 2 min read

Russia to stop recruiting Sri Lankans for Ukraine war: FM after meeting Lavrov

Addressed issues concerning ex-Sri Lankan servicemen in the Russian military

June 11, 2024 2 min read
French Navy's Beautemps-Beaupré arrives in Sri Lanka's Colombo Port

An 80.65m long hydrographic vessel with 58 crew members

China's Avic shares surge on Pakistan claims of J-10C downing Rafales

AVIC is one of the Chinese state enterprise groups that has invested in Sri Lanka in mixed developments

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
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Pompeo meets Lankan leadership today to keep Colombo within US orbit

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who arrived in Sri Lanka last night will have talks today with President Go...

October 28, 2020 2 min read

The government will fight efforts to lift ban on the LTTE in the UK – Foreign Ministry

The door has opened for the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the United Kingdom to be lifted by a r...

October 22, 2020 2 min read
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Government MPs want Riyaj Bathiudeen re-arrested over Easter Bombings

More than two-thirds of the country’s governing party Parliamentary Group has signed a letter addressed to the Preside...

October 10, 2020 3 min read

President Gotabaya says no deal with Bathiudeen over 20A

Sri Lanka’s President has shot down speculation that he is “cutting a political deal” with a powerful Muslim polit...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 4, 2020 3 min read

IshiniGate: Instagram star breaks her silence says cyberattacks “are overwhelming”

A Canadian Social Media influencer who raised tens of thousands of dollars for victims of the Easter Sunday attacks is s...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 2, 2020 5 min read
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North and East protest government actions to disallow memorials for war dead

Most schools, shops and businesses in many parts of the North and East remained closed today in protest against the auth...

September 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Navy recovers abandoned explosives in Mullivaikkal

The Sri Lanka Navy recovered an assortment of explosive items in a privately owned development site in Mullivaikkal, Mul...

Chanka Jayasinghe
September 16, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka sea reclamation project's China affiliates on US export blacklist

The United States has placed several subsidiaries of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the ultimate pare...

August 30, 2020 3 min read

Handunetti cannot depose before Presidential Commission - Speaker

A Chairman of a Committee or an official of Parliament cannot be summoned before Presidential Commission of Inquiry to r...

Imesh Ranasinghe
August 27, 2020 1 min read
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Hope that the country will go towards an inclusive nationalism

There is a concept of inclusive nationalism, in which everyone born within the boundaries of the country (regardless of ...

Dr. Jehan Perera - Executive Director National Peace Council
August 25, 2020 6 min read