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Defence

Sri Lanka in talks with India to set up arms manufacturing unit: State Defence Minister

Sri Lanka is already into arms manufacturing, but at a small scale

May 15, 2024 3 min read

Hundreds of Sri Lankans hospitalised in Russia-Ukraine war; legislator seeks special envoy

There is a diplomatic intervention that is needed

May 14, 2024 5 min read

Sri Lanka Defense Ministry sets up office to track personnel in Ukraine, Russia

Request for information via telephone number 0112441146.

May 10, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka builds up Navy capacity to handle foreign research ships during moratorium: FM

Two Chinese research vessels arrived in Sri Lanka within 14 months through October 2023.

May 9, 2024 3 min read
French Navy ship Provence arrives in Sri Lanka's Colombo Port

142.20m long Destroyer with a crew of 160

Sri Lanka doctor under surveillance in East denies extremism charges

Sri Lanka government has said defence agencies are vigilant over Eastern groups

Navy refutes stories that it is withdrawing from public duties

The Sri Lanka Navy is debunking stories that it is to temporarily withdraw from COVID-19 prevention duties as well as ro...

May 6, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka cancels military leave as 95 sailors get Coronavirus amid testing gap, count 477

Sri Lanka has cancelled leave off members of all three forces and asked them to report to base, with 95 sailors so far ...

April 26, 2020 2 min read

Former MPs question the deployment of the Army around Parliament

Two former Members of Parliament have written to the Secretary-General of Parliament questioning why the Armed Forces ha...

April 26, 2020 2 min read

Constitutional Crisis looms as poll date goes beyond three months of dissolution

Constitutional experts are saying that because the President is accountable to Parliament it is vital that the House be ...

Arjuna Ranawana
April 23, 2020 4 min read

Honouring the Victims of 21 April 2019 Through Togetherness and Unity

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269...

Shreen Abdul Saroor - Human Rights Activist and founder of Women's Action Network 
April 21, 2020 6 min read

Cardinal: Easter attackers "spritually forgiven" but plotters must be punished

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church is ready to “spiritually forgive” the plotters and the perpetrators of last year...

Arjuna Ranawana
April 17, 2020 3 min read

Cardinal says Government must probe attacks on Muslims after Easter Sunday blasts

Sri Lanka’s leading Roman Catholic Prelate says pogroms against Muslims three weeks after the 2019 Easter Sunday suici...

Arjuna Ranawana
April 16, 2020 3 min read
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CID questioning Rishad's brother: police

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is currently questioning former minister Rishad Bathuideen’s bro...

Imesh Ranasinghe
April 15, 2020 1 min read

As Coronavirus spreads in South Asia, Sri Lanka Navy, Air Force step up patrols

Sri Lanka's Navy and Air Force has stepped up maritime surveillance to keep out illegal entrants as Coronavirus spreads ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 12, 2020 2 min read

Immigration Department transferred to Sri Lanka's Mahaweli Ministry

Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration and Emigration has been transferred to the Ministry of Mahaweli, Agriculture, Irri...

April 11, 2020 1 min read
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New probe into CID investigation of Easter attacks ordered

The Acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne has appointed two teams of investigators to look at whether there has been an inte...

Imesh Ranasinghe
March 29, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Defence Secretary says more than 170 returnees skipped quarantine

Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Kamal Gunaratne said more than 170 Sri Lankans who had returned from Italy and Kore...

March 17, 2020 2 min read

Task force to monitor probe into Sri Lanka Easter Sunday blasts: Defence Ministry

Sri Lanka has set up a task force to monitor and speed up an investigation by the police criminal investigation departme...

February 23, 2020 1 min read

Easter attacks: Indications of collusion - Cardinal

Bishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith called for a thorough investigation into, among other things, “indications ...

February 19, 2020 3 min read

India pledges USD 50mn for military procurement

Days after Russia said it will continue to supply Sri Lanka with military hardware, India’s top security official has ...

Yakuta Dawood
January 20, 2020 1 min read

Fear on Saukadi Beach

This is the tale of the little food shop on the beach that got hit because of events beyond the control of is owner and ...

Arjuna Ranawana
January 20, 2020 4 min read

Cabinet nod for new Act to grant immunity to Intelligence Officers

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to draft a Bill called the National Intelligence Act to protect the dut...

Imesh Ranasinghe
January 15, 2020 2 min read

Zaharan's mosque to become a Harmony Centre

The Mosque in Kattankudy where National Towheed Jamaat (NTJ) leader Zaharan Cassim breathed fire to his followers is to ...

Arjuna Ranawana
January 14, 2020 2 min read

SriLankan alters flight routes to avoid Iran, Iraq airspace

National carrier SriLankan Airlines has altered its Colombo-London-Colombo flight route in view of raised tensions in th...

January 8, 2020 1 min read

Four killed in Sri Lanka military plane crash

A Sri Lankan air force plane crashed in a tea-growing mountainous region Friday, killing the four crew on board, a milit...

January 3, 2020 1 min read