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Sri Lanka Cabinet Spokesman backs rehabilitation law to protect fundamental rights

Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill strongly criticized by rights groups

October 18, 2022 3 min read

Sri Aurobindo: Mystical Awareness Supplants Production

In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.

October 7, 2022 35 min read

Sri Lanka Bar Association raises concerns over president's war-time high security zone declaration 

The new declaration comes as people are frustrated with high cost of living amid unaffordable food prices

September 24, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka Customs seizes Rs.16 mln worth illegal cigarettes; five arrested

Suspects attempted to go through Green Channel - Customs

August 27, 2022 1 min read
Sri Lanka Police Minister rejects ICIJ shell company allegations  

An ICIJ analysis has alleged Alles of using shell companies to buy properties in the U.K.

Two acres of plantation land for Sri Lanka's Rangala police station

Police to acquire two acre land from Udupussellawa Plantation Company's Duckwari Estate to build station

Covid 19 outbreak at the Welikada jail probably confined to one Ward – Prison’s Chief

Sri Lankan authorities are conducting mass testing for the Coronavirus in its largest jail after at least two dozen inma...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 7, 2020 3 min read

Police hunting down people who left the Western Province before the curfew

Sri Lanka’s Police has launched an operation to hunt down people who left the Covid hit Western Province for holidays ...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 30, 2020 2 min read

Rishad Bathiudeen arrested in Dehiwela early this morning

Police investigators arrested former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen at an apartment in Dehiwela in the early hours of this m...

October 19, 2020 2 min read

Director CID post changes hands for the third time in 11 months

For the third time since the present government came to power the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department has ...

October 17, 2020 1 min read

Tough regulations to prevent the spread of Covid 19

Sri Lanka yesterday issued the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid 19) (Preventive Measures) Regulations gazette notificatio...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 16, 2020 6 min read

Dappula faults CID for not nabbing Bathiudeen – AG’s Spokeswoman

The Attorney General Dappula de Livera has upbraided the Criminal Investigation Department over Police actions over the ...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 15, 2020 2 min read

From today you can be jailed or fined for breaking Covid prevention guidelines

The Health Department’s guidelines to prevent the spread of Covid 19 has become law through regulations Gazetted by th...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Police still looking for MP Bathiudeen, arrest accountant and bodyguard

Police looking to arrest former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen in connection with the alleged misuse of government funds to ...

October 14, 2020 2 min read

FMM demands action after two more journalists probing deforestation are assaulted

Media activists are condemning physical assaults on reporters who have investigated alleged illegal deforestation after ...

October 13, 2020 1 min read
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Dozens detained for breaking quarantine curfews - Police

Police have arrested 80 people for violating quarantine curfew as at 6 am this morning since the curfew was implemented ...

October 8, 2020 1 min read
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The furore over the removal of MRI chief continues

Both pro-government and opposition spokesmen are questioning the removal of the Director of the Medical Research Institu...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 8, 2020 2 min read

Government to crackdown on pro-Cannabis lobby – Prime Minister

The government is taking a tough stance against those promoting the legalization of Marijuana with Prime Minister Mahind...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 7, 2020 2 min read

Use Government Ambulances to come to treatment centres Pavithra tells Covid patients

The Health Minister is appealing to people in the Gampaha and adjacent areas to avail themselves of the Department’s A...

October 7, 2020 1 min read

Brandix Covid cluster reaches 707 patients as police clarify curfew areas - officials

Police headquarters has issued a clarification saying that Quarantine Curfews have been declared in the Gampaha, Divulap...

October 6, 2020 2 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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Challenging the 20A: All submissions to Supreme Court end tomorrow

The Supreme Court will close submissions from all parties challenging or supporting the controversial proposed 20th Amen...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 1, 2020 3 min read
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20th Amendment is necessary for National Security – Prof GL

The government is introducing the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to ensure that a situation such as the security lap...

September 28, 2020 2 min read

Army, Police combined raid catches over a hundred illegal sand miners in Trinco

A large scale combined Security Forces operation has netted 144 suspects allegedly engaged in illegal sand mining in the...

September 28, 2020 1 min read

Opinion: Reform the proposed 20th Amendment to strengthen, not weaken, transparency

Following parliamentary elections, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa wasted no time in obtaining cabinet approval and therea...

Shreen Saroor - Human Rights Activist
September 27, 2020 5 min read

Sri Lanka army busts illegal jellyfish worth Rs 625,000

Sri Lanka’s military apprehended 50 kilogrammes of illegal jellyfish that was being transported in a Sri Lanka Transpo...

Chanka Jayasinghe
September 25, 2020 1 min read