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Sri Lanka's state-sanctioned 'agitation site' in wrong place: top defence official

The agitation site is located in a recently declared high security zone

September 26, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka's protestors told to obtain police permission six hours ahead

"No protest should cause obstruction to everyday life or to the economy," he said.

September 26, 2022 3 min read

Sri Lanka police arrest 84 for "illegal" protest after president's high security zone declaration 

JVP youth wing is planning to contest the police action in courts on Monday

September 24, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka president brings back war-time high security zones after protests 

New HSZ move comes amid speculations over possible protests by people over cost of living.

September 24, 2022 2 min read
Sri Lanka’s top sleuth drops cluster bomb over Easter probe

Senior DIG CID Ravi Seneviratne suggests there are several areas that merit further investigations

Sri Lanka Pres appoints local panel to probe Channel 4 claim amid foreign inquiry demand

Alleged involvement of Sri Lankan intelligence operatives have already been reported to local courts

Residents complain SLPP activists accompanied by police collecting personal data?

Questions are being raised over a door-to-door survey being conducted by Police in the City of Colombo and its suburbs o...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 2, 2020 2 min read

Curfew from 10 pm to 4 am islandwide from tomorrow, travel ban for Colombo and Gampaha remains

Curfew hours are further relaxed from tomorrow but travel restrictions remain in place for the Colombo and Gampaha distr...

May 25, 2020 1 min read

Justice for Easter Sunday and Justice for Hejaaz: A Christian perspective

There must be justice for Easter Sunday, but there must also be justice for Hejaaz and others subjected to arbitrary arr...

Ruki Fernando
May 24, 2020 8 min read
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Island-wide daytime curfews lifted from Tuesday - Presidential Secretariat

The island-wide curfew will be lifted at 4 am and reimposed at 10 pm from Tuesday,  May 26, the Presidential Secretaria...

May 23, 2020 1 min read
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President will withdraw Sri Lanka from International Organisations which seek to discredit War Veter...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has vowed he will not permit officers and other ranks who fought in the separatist war to b...

May 20, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka taking thousands of sailors out of Navy camp to contain Coronavirus

Sri Lanka is taking thousands of sailors out of a Naval complex in Welisara to contain an outbreak of Coronavirus, which...

May 19, 2020 3 min read

Eleventh anniversary of the end of the seperatist war today

The annual remembrance ceremony for the fallen servicemen in the Armed Forces, Police and Civil Security Department will...

May 19, 2020 1 min read

Navy refutes stories that it is withdrawing from public duties

The Sri Lanka Navy is debunking stories that it is to temporarily withdraw from COVID-19 prevention duties as well as ro...

May 6, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka cancels military leave as 95 sailors get Coronavirus amid testing gap, count 477

Sri Lanka has cancelled leave off members of all three forces and asked them to report to base, with 95 sailors so far ...

April 26, 2020 2 min read

Former MPs question the deployment of the Army around Parliament

Two former Members of Parliament have written to the Secretary-General of Parliament questioning why the Armed Forces ha...

April 26, 2020 2 min read
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Constitutional Crisis looms as poll date goes beyond three months of dissolution

Constitutional experts are saying that because the President is accountable to Parliament it is vital that the House be ...

Arjuna Ranawana
April 23, 2020 4 min read

Honouring the Victims of 21 April 2019 Through Togetherness and Unity

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269...

Shreen Abdul Saroor - Human Rights Activist and founder of Women's Action Network 
April 21, 2020 6 min read

Cardinal: Easter attackers "spritually forgiven" but plotters must be punished

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church is ready to “spiritually forgive” the plotters and the perpetrators of last year...

Arjuna Ranawana
April 17, 2020 3 min read

Cardinal says Government must probe attacks on Muslims after Easter Sunday blasts

Sri Lanka’s leading Roman Catholic Prelate says pogroms against Muslims three weeks after the 2019 Easter Sunday suici...

Arjuna Ranawana
April 16, 2020 3 min read
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CID questioning Rishad's brother: police

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is currently questioning former minister Rishad Bathuideen’s bro...

Imesh Ranasinghe
April 15, 2020 1 min read

As Coronavirus spreads in South Asia, Sri Lanka Navy, Air Force step up patrols

Sri Lanka's Navy and Air Force has stepped up maritime surveillance to keep out illegal entrants as Coronavirus spreads ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 12, 2020 2 min read

Immigration Department transferred to Sri Lanka's Mahaweli Ministry

Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration and Emigration has been transferred to the Ministry of Mahaweli, Agriculture, Irri...

April 11, 2020 1 min read

New probe into CID investigation of Easter attacks ordered

The Acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne has appointed two teams of investigators to look at whether there has been an inte...

Imesh Ranasinghe
March 29, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Defence Secretary says more than 170 returnees skipped quarantine

Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Kamal Gunaratne said more than 170 Sri Lankans who had returned from Italy and Kore...

March 17, 2020 2 min read

Task force to monitor probe into Sri Lanka Easter Sunday blasts: Defence Ministry

Sri Lanka has set up a task force to monitor and speed up an investigation by the police criminal investigation departme...

February 23, 2020 1 min read
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