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Two arrested in Jaffna for allegedly promoting LTTE online

Two suspects were arrested in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, this morning, allegedly for promoting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil El...

March 29, 2021 1 min read

Effects and implications of the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka explained

The result of the passing of a resolution concerning Sri Lanka in Geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (...

March 25, 2021 5 min read

Sri Lanka's Drug menace needs a new approach

Crime surrounding the increased use of hard drugs in Sri Lanka is a major societal and law and order concern, but are we...

March 17, 2021 8 min read

Azath Salley arrested and detained under PTA and ICCPR – AG’s Dept.

Former Governor of the Western Province Azath Salley has been arrested on the orders of the Attorney General, the AG’s...

March 16, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka Cabinet Spokesman backs rehabilitation law to protect fundamental rights

Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill strongly criticized by rights groups

Sri Aurobindo: Mystical Awareness Supplants Production

In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.

Sajith wants better protection for women and children

Former Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa is calling for an end to child abuse and violence against women.

March 4, 2020 1 min read

Ahimsa gets right to seek justice for her father after appeal Court decision

A San Francisco court has vacated the lower court’s ruling that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is entitled to common law...

March 3, 2020 2 min read

Attorney General directs police to arrest Ravi K and others over Bonds scam

The Attorney General Dappula de Livera has directed police to obtain warrants from court to arrest former Minister Ravi ...

March 3, 2020 1 min read

Navy nabs heroin worth more than Rs. one billion off Galle

More than a billion rupees worth of narcotics have been seized off the seas of Sri Lanka’s Southern city of Galle on S...

February 29, 2020 2 min read

Probe into Sooriyawewa fracas

A clash that had taken place between security personnel and spectators trying to get into the Sooriyawewa cricket stadiu...

February 27, 2020 2 min read

Drugs in schools: Country's biggest problem - Mahinda

Sri Lanka’s children are facing a massive issue with drug dealers targeting students near schools making the spread of...

February 27, 2020 2 min read

Use of Military Police for police services is illegal: UNP

UNP MP Ajith P Perera said that it is illegal to use Military Police to perform normal police services.

February 25, 2020 1 min read

Military Police deployed in Greater Colombo to help police control traffic

Military Policemen are deployed in Colombo and the suburbs to assist police to ease the heavy traffic congestion in the ...

February 24, 2020 1 min read

Rajakaruna appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal

The Constitutional Council (CC) approved the nomination of Senior Deputy Solicitor General R. M. Sobhitha Rajakaruna, as...

February 21, 2020 1 min read

Airbus bribery suspect sent money to Nimal Perera - State Counsel

The Fort Magistrate's court heared yesterday that the accused in the Airbus case sent cash to a man in Sri Lanka named N...

February 20, 2020 2 min read
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Fort Magistrate questions why officer probing MIG case has been transferred

The Fort Magistrate has issued a notice asking why officers who were investigating the MIG case had been transferred out...

February 18, 2020 4 min read

Judiciary should not needlessly interfere with Legislature and Executive - President

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is calling on the “system of justice” in Sri Lanka to be more “public friendly, effic...

February 15, 2020 3 min read

Udayanga Weeratunga arrested after being extradited

Udayanga Weeratunga the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia was extradited this morning to Sri Lanka from Dubai and w...

Imesh Ranasinghe
February 14, 2020 2 min read

Govt will not intervene in the tussle between AG and Acting IGP- Bandula

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the government will not intervene in the tussle between Attorney General Dappula de Liv...

February 13, 2020 2 min read

AG wants copies of Ranjan's calls with Judge Pilapitiya for legal action

The Attorney General (AG) has asked the Acting Inspector General of Police to provide him with copies of the recordings ...

February 12, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka firms keen to meet international standards: EU

Sri Lanka is keen to meet international standards required by the General System of Preferences (GSP) Plus program, alth...

February 12, 2020 2 min read

Dappula orders Pilapitiya arrested immediately

The Attorney General is displeased at the way the police are going about the taking action over the investigation into t...

February 12, 2020 2 min read

A refund from Airbus is possible: TISL chief Obeyesekere

Sri Lanka’s best option is to use the dispute resolution mechanisms provided by the Organisation for Economic Cooperat...

Tania Madies
February 10, 2020 3 min read

Colonel and soldiers among 21 arrested for digging for Tiger Gold

The Police Special Task Force has arrested 21 people in Dharmapuram in Kilinochchi yesterday for allegedly excavating a ...

February 10, 2020 1 min read

AG must file action against SriLankan airlines bribe-takers - Eran

UNP Parliamentarian Eran Wickremeratne is demanding that the Attorney General file action against those persons who took...

February 6, 2020 3 min read