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Easter Attacks: Church calls off protests but will the victims get justice?

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church has called off its month-long protest campaign to demand justice for the victims of ...

March 12, 2021 8 min read

Committee to study PCoI report panned by Church and Opposition

The President’s Committee will implement only what President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants from the Easter Sunday inquiry r...

February 23, 2021 3 min read

Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah may be produced in Court tomorrow

The Attorney General has ordered the Police Department to produce detained lawyer Hijaz Omar Hizbullah before a Magistra...

February 17, 2021 3 min read

Magistrates to be permitted to visit police stations to check on suspects

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Law is being amended to allow Magistrates to visit Police stations to examine the condition of su...

February 16, 2021 2 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

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

Suspects attempted to go through Green Channel - Customs

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
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Hemasiri, Pujith granted conditional bail

Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Hemasiri Fernando and Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundera are out...

February 5, 2020 1 min read

AG orders former SriLankan CEO and wife arrested over money laundering allegations

Attorney General Dappula de Livera has ordered the CID to arrest former SriLankan Airlines Chief Executive Officer Kapil...

February 3, 2020 2 min read

Airbus bribed wife of Sri Lankan airlines exec US$2 million - reports

Airbus hired the wife of a Sri Lankan Airlines executive as an agent, although she had had no previous experience in the...

February 1, 2020 2 min read
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No evidence to charge anyone for 2015 alleged Coup - AG

Attorney General Dappula de Livera has today informed the CID that there is “insufficient evidence” to file action a...

January 31, 2020 1 min read

Abduction of 11 youths: AG not bound by advice from Presidential Commission

The Attorney General is saying that he is not bound by instructions issued to him by a Presidential Commissions of Inqui...

January 28, 2020 2 min read

Ranjan challenges govt. to appoint a Commission of Inquiry

Ranjan Ramanayake is challenging the government to appoint a Commission of Inquiry into his leaked phone conversations s...

Imesh Ranasinghe
January 21, 2020 3 min read

Ranjangate: The next stage begins

Why we all should be afraid of Ranjan Rmanayake has done

Arjuna Ranawana
January 18, 2020 5 min read

Court orders AG to probe how Ranjan's tapes were leaked

A magistrate has ordered the Attorney General to investigate how recordings of telephone conversations seized from the r...

January 17, 2020 2 min read

Ranjangate: Police to question judges connected to sound clips

Police have received instructions to record statements from the three judges who have had conversations with Actor-polit...

January 16, 2020 2 min read

Ranjangate: Release the tapes of conversations with government members - Harin

Actor-politico Ranjan Ramanayake has audio recordings of phone conversations he had with the members of the current gove...

January 16, 2020 1 min read