Courtesy Adaderana Prof. Rohan Gunaratne, a threat specialist of the global security environment, has called for a rehabilitation programme for those arrested in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Speaking at a conference in Colombo, Prof. Gunaratne urged that suspects connected to the bombings be subjected to a rehabilitation programme prior to their […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 23: In his book on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, internationally known terrorism expert Dr.Rohan Gunaratna says that de-radicalization of Islamic ideology is the best way to tackle Islamic terrorism.  In Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International community (Penguin 2023), Gunaratna says that Islamic terrorism […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ambassador of Türkiye to Sri Lanka says the elements of FETÖ (Fethullahist Terrorist Organization) – the group behind the foiled 2016 coup bid – have been eliminated from Sri Lanka after successful joint efforts by the two nations against terrorism. Addressing the Democracy and National Unity Day Commemoration Ceremony in Colombo on […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today More than three decades have passed since the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh Khalistan terrorists in October 1984 in New Delhi and her son Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991 in Tamil Nadu and President Ranasinghe Premadasa in May 1993 in Colombo by Liberation […]

Courtesy Hindustan Times Among the charge-sheeted persons are C Gunashekharaan alias Guna and Pushparajah alias Pookutti Kanna, Sri Lankan nationals who run a drug syndicate in the island nation and work closely with Pakistani drugs and arms supplier Haji Salim, the NIA said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 13 […]

Courtesy Adaderana ගජේන්ද්‍රකුමාර් පොන්නම්බලම් මන්‍ත්‍රීවරයා සමග ආන්දෝලනාත්මක සිද්ධිය ඇතිවූ පොලිස් නිලධාරීයා වන්නේ පොලිස් සැරයන් සනත් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාය. ඔහු 1990 වසරේදී ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් පොලිස් ස්ථානයට අනියුක්තව සේවය කරමින් සිටින අතරතුර LTTEයේ පැහැරගැනීමට ලක්වී එම කඳවුරක වධ බන්ධනවලට ලක් වූ අයෙකි. එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ.යෙන් නිදහස ලබා පැමිණි සනත් ගුණවර්ධන පොලිස් සැරයන් ධුරයට උසස් කෙරුණු අතර යළි උතුරු පළාතට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court today (23) sentenced a former cadre of the now-defunct separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to rigorous life imprisonment. The accused, Thangavelu Nimalan, has been found guilty of the possession of explosives and 02 micro-type pistols to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Colombo […]

Courtesy Tribune (PK) Officials say Iqbal alias Bali Khayara was wanted for 26 cases of terrorism and targeted killings Terrorist Iqbal alias Bali Khayara, who was a member of Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Khayara group, was killed in a police encounter near Fateh Moor in Dera Ismail Khan, police officials confirmed. Iqbal was one […]

By:Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) yesterday (25) said the President and the Government should have tabled the complete report of the Easter Sunday Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI), in Parliament first before giving it to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL). The full report was handed over […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් තමන්ට තීන්දුවක් ගත හැකි, නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කළ හැකි, බලයක් සහිත කාල වකවානුවේ දී කිසිවක් නොපවසා, විශ්‍රාම යන මොහොතේ කුමන්ත්‍රණකාරී සිදුවීමක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු නීතිපති දප්පුල ද ලිවේරා සිදු කළ ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂගෙන් විවේචනාත්මක ප්‍රකාශයක් නිකුත් වී තිබෙනවා. අද (22) පෙරවරුවේ මහනුවර අස්ගිරි විහාරස්ථානයට ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]

Courtesy OneIndia The revival of the LTTE has been on the radar of the investigation agencies for long. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently seized a huge cache of cash, gold bars, digital devices, drugs and documents, along with other incriminating material during the raids and searches conducted at Chennai. In a release the NIA […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express In December 2022, the NIA arrested nine people from the Sri Lankan refugee camp in Tiruchy. CHENNAI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches in eight locations in the city and arrested a trader for allegedly possessing unaccounted cash, ganja and gold, among other things. The authorities made […]

Divyesh Singh Courtesy India Today The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has busted a racket allegedly working for the revival of a militant group in Sri Lanka. The agency has arrested one member and seized illegal proceeds. The National Investigation Agency has seized a huge cache of cash, gold bars, mobile phones, memory cards, drugs and […]

Insight – නැණස කොටි නායකයා සමඟ යුධ හමුදා කපිතාන්වරයා පැවැත්වූ සම්බන්ධය ගැන තිස්පස් වසරකට පසුව කියන අමුතු කතාව පැවැත්වූ සම්බන්ධය ගැන තිස්පස් වසරකට පසුව කියන අමුතු කතාව

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is still alive was quashed by Tamil nationalists and the Sri Lankan army Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers […]

Lanka Lead News ජනාධිපතිවරයා පසුගිය දා උතුරේ කළ සංචාරයේදී එක්තරා දෙමළ පිරිසක් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියේ නිලධාරීන් මඩ වතුරෙන් නහවමින් සිදු කළ අමානුෂික විරෝධතාව තමන් දැඩි ලෙස හෙළාදකින බව යාපනයේ සිවිල් සංවිධාන කැදවුම්කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථන් සදහන් කරයි. මෙම ක්‍රියාව සිදුකළේ සමස්ත උතුරේ ජනතාව නොවන බවත්, විවිධ දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම්වල නියෝජිතයන් හා අතුරුදන් වූවන්ගේ ඥාතීන් ලෙස පවසන […]

 Lanka Lead News ට්විටර් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කරමින් විදේශ අමාත්‍ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ඩොලර් මිලියන 11.7ක සහනාධාර ලබාදීම පිළිබදව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයට ස්තුතිය පළ කරයි. ඊට අමතරව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා කාර්යාලය නැවත විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වූ නිලධාරින් දෙදෙනෙකු සමග අමාත්‍ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ගනුලැබූ පින්තූරයක් ද මාධ්‍යවල දක්නට ඇත. ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදයට සෘජුව සහ […]

Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that a Sri Lankan gemstone company that was key to sanctioned terrorist facilitator Ahmed Luqman Talib’s revenue generation in support of Al -Qaida continued doing business after Talib was sanctioned & arrested.

Lanka Lead News කැනඩාවේ හිටපු ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියෝජ්‍ය මහකොමසාරිස් අශෝක වීරසිංහ මහතා හෙළිකරන්නේ 1997 ජනවාරි 31 දා සිදුවූ කොටුවේ මහ බැංකු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සඳහා ටී. එන්. ටී. පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 50 ක් සහ ආර් ඩී එක්ස් පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 10 ක් මිලයට ගෙන ඇත්තේ යුක්රේනයේ රුබේයෝන් රසායන කම්හලෙන් බව ය. කොටුව බෝම්බ පිපිරීමෙන් සියයකට අධික […]

Courtesy Hiru News The National Investigation Agency of India arrested a member of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) who was in touch with the mastermind of Easter bombings in Sri Lanka Zahran Hashim, for his links with suspects in October 23 blast in Tamil Nadu.

By Neeraj Chauhan Courtesy Hindustan Times New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested a member of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) who was in touch with the mastermind of 2019 Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka, for his alleged links with suspects in the October 23 blast in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore New […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber while at a poll rally. Nalini Sriharan – one of six convicted of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and whom the Supreme Court released from a prison in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore […]

Courtesy DNA Nalini was pregnant at the time of the assassination. Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who were released on Saturday, said she wasn’t involved in the murder of the Prime Minister of India. In an interview on Sunday, she claimed her only fault was getting acquainted […]

Courtesy Adaderana India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against three LTTE supporters who were allegedly planning terrorist acts to revive the proscribed group in Tamil Nadu. The charge sheet was filed against the arrested accused from Tamil Nadu – Naveen alias Chakaravarthy M, Sanjay Prakash J and A Kabilar alias […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United States has imposed sanctions on an individual who was identified as the Sri Lanka based-business partner of a sanctioned al-Qa’ida financial facilitator and external operations plotter.  According to a statement issued by the US Department of the Treasury, the individual named Mohamad Irshad Mohamd Haris Nizar had been al-Qa’ida financial facilitator, […]

Nalin Rajapaksha “ප්‍රභාගේ උපතේ සිට මරණය දක්වා විශේෂ අනාවරණයක්” – ප්‍රභාගේ පවුල ලඟින්ම ඇසුරු කළ වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් හෙළිකරයි

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss allegedly sent a message saying ‘It’s Done’ to the U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken immediately after the Nord Stream attack. Kim Dotcom, a German-Finnish internet entrepreneur who resides in New Zealand, said the text message is the reason Russia claims the UK was involved […]

Courtesy Adaderana Presidential pardons have been granted to a group of prisoners who had been convicted by courts in relation to LTTE activities. The special amnesty was granted for eight LTTE inmates in accordance with the powers vested in the President under the Constitution of Sri Lanka, Additional Commissioner of Prisons, Chandana Ekanayake said. Accordingly, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the Metropolitan Police have not deployed any officers in support of the Sri Lankan investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Britain on Wednesday said that Metropolitan Police ‘will consider any request to support an overseas investigation where it is proportionate, necessary and legal.’ In […]

Tamil Nadu-Press Trust of India he searches were conducted in Salem and Sivagangai districts on Saturday and led to the recovery of incriminating materials including digital devices like compact discs related to LTTE. New Delhi:  The NIA conducted searches at two locations in Tamil Nadu in a case related to two self-radicalised Liberation Tigers of […]