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Sumanthiran says Minister Weerasekara is responsible if he is harmed

TNA veteran and lawyer M A Sumanthiran says he is under threat and should not have had his Commando guards removed

February 10, 2021 5 min read

Its Independence Day and what have we got

Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict is not a shooting war anymore but long-standing issues remain unresolved

February 4, 2021 7 min read

Reforming Sri Lanka's legal system national duty of all stakeholders: Justice Minister

It is the national duty of all stakeholders in Sri Lanka’s legal system to reform the system by updating it effectivel...

January 25, 2021 2 min read

Keheliya says mandatory military training “only a proposal”

Cabinet spokesman says even the so-called “five-star” democracies follow the practice and those who oppose it are pu...

January 19, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka police arrest key protest leader amid fears of August 9 agitation 

Protesters have called for another massive protest to oust Ranil Wickremesinghe on August 9

Sri Lanka parliament endorses emergency law for 30 days 

The State of Emergency was declared on July 18 ahead of a parliament vote to elect President.

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
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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

Ranjan arrested again

Actor-politico Ranjan Ramanayake has been arrested by Police for alleged contempt of court, Police Spokesman Superintend...

January 14, 2020 1 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

Police did not leak the Ranjan tapes - Police spokesman

Police did not leak the CD containing the famously controversial conversations that Actor-politico Ranjan Ramanayake had...

January 14, 2020 1 min read

Police raid Ranjan Ramanayake's home

A Police posse from the Nugegoda Police raided the official quarters of United National Party Member of Parliament this...

January 4, 2020 1 min read

Swiss Embassy issues regretful note

Sri Lanka and Switzerland began the slow-dance back to normalising relations strained by the controversy surrounding the...

January 1, 2020 2 min read

Churches urge calm after videos of Monk attacking Christians go viral

Bishop Asiri Perera, head of the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka is appealing for calm after videos of a Buddhist Monk att...

Arjuna Ranawana
December 30, 2019 3 min read

Farcical scenes before Rajitha is remanded

Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne is now the second senior ex-Cabinet Minister from the United National Front government...

December 27, 2019 2 min read

Supreme Court Justice Prasanna Jayawardena passes away

Supreme Court Justice Prasanna Jayawardena PC passed away this morning in a private hospital in Colombo.

December 24, 2019 1 min read

Patali re-remanded until Monday

Former Minister and Parliamentarian Patali Champaka Ranawaka was re-remanded until Monday by the Colombo Additional Magi...

December 19, 2019 2 min read