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Sri Lanka offers general amnesty for military deserters

Ministry of Defence has declared a month long general amnesty from April 20 to May 20 for tri-forces absentees

April 4, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka Minister to provide missing Easter attack report pages to Catholic leaders after complaint

Cardinal Malcom Ranjith has said over 1,500 pages containing crucial evidence on Easter attack were missing

March 25, 2024 4 min read

Sri Lanka police minister orders probe into ex-president’s Easter attack remarks

Sirisena said he can reveal the plotter behind Easter Sunday attack if a court requests

March 24, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka releases land held by military in North

Lands held by the Jaffna Security Force Headquarters in Jaffna were released to people

March 23, 2024 4 min read
Sri Lanka regrets not hosting Nuclear Test Ban Treaty field event

Sri Lanka still pay more than 25,000 annually for ratifying the treaty

Sri Lanka withdraws from Nuclear Test Ban Treaty field event

Withdrawal comes after concerns raised over possible adverse impacts of the field exercise.

Govt setting up new Media centre for Security-related info

The new government is reorganizing the way information is provided to the Media which is related to Police and security ...

November 29, 2019 2 min read

Embassy staffer's abduction shows that President has failed to provide security - UNP

The Opposition is accusing the administration of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of failing to fulfil its main campaign ple...

November 28, 2019 2 min read

Swiss government condemns abduction of staffer

The Swiss government is condemning the “temporary kidnapping” of a Sri Lankan staff member in the embassy in Colombo...

November 28, 2019 2 min read

Police probing abduction of Swiss Embassy staffer

Police are investigating an alleged incident where a Sri Lankan woman staffer at the Swiss Embassy had been abducted on ...

November 27, 2019 2 min read

Seth FM – Radio that heals

Seth FM the local community Radio station that operates from the Katuwapitiya area became the nodal point after the East...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 27, 2019 4 min read

Police search Newshub.lk newsroom

A Police team from the Mirihana Police searched the newsroom of Newshub.lk this morning, investigating a complaint that...

November 26, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka airports on alert after top cop flees

The Sri Lankan government has put airports on alert to stop police detectives leaving without permission after a top off...

November 26, 2019 2 min read

FMM Concerned by Shani transfer

The Free Media Movement (FMM) is asking the National Police Commission to reconsider the hasty transfer of the Director ...

November 26, 2019 1 min read

Foreign Travel ban on 704 CID officers

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has made a request through the Immigration and Emigration Department to susp...

November 26, 2019 1 min read

CID probing IP Silva's departure

Police headquarters have ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately investigate and submit a ful...

November 25, 2019 1 min read
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New Sri Lanka president pledges professionalism, efficiency in administration

Sri Lanka's newly-elected president Gotabaya Rajapaksa Monday said he would rebuild government administration giving pri...

November 18, 2019 2 min read

Ranil congratulates Trump over Al-Baghdadi death

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has congratulated President Donald Trump on the successful operation to kill the ISI...

October 28, 2019 1 min read

Parliamentary probe failed to identify who was behind Easter attacks-Samarasinghe

SLFP Parliamentarian Mahinda Samarasinghe Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) which probed into Easter attacks has fail...

October 28, 2019 1 min read

State Intelligence Service should be blamed for Easter massacre - Parliamentary Committee

The Director of the State Intelligence Service, Nilantha Jayawardena, “bears the greatest responsibility” in the fai...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 23, 2019 2 min read

Hakeem defends himself against accusations

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Minister Rauff Hakeem says the video clip showing him with terrorist Zaharan Ha...

October 23, 2019 3 min read

Slain Sri Lanka editor’s daughter to appeal in U.S. assassination case against Gotabaya

The daughter of slain Sri Lanka editor Lasantha Wickremetunga said she will appeal against the decision of a United Stat...

October 22, 2019 2 min read

"I did it my way," says Fonseka of the war victory

Former Army Commander and current United National Front Member of Parliament Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka says that dur...

October 19, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka overcame hostile forces due to the bravery of troops -Sirisena

President Maithripala Sirisena said it was because of the great dedications by the brave soldiers that Sri Lanka has bee...

October 7, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka can get Millennium Challenge grant: not linked to defence deals: official

A 480 million US dollar grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation was to be signed before defence related agreemen...

September 20, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka ends emergency four months after Easter attacks

AFP - Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by Islamist extremists ...

August 23, 2019 2 min read