Courtesy Adaderana The committee appointed to probe the financial misuse of at the Central Cultural Fund has handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (28). The report states that Rs. 11 billion was misappropriated during the three-year period from 2016 to 2019, the Office of the Prime Minister said. It further reveals […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Owner of Buwaneka Hotel, WW Chandrasena said today that it was stated in the agreement he signed with the Kurunegala Urban Council, the particular building his hotel was housed in, is an archaeological monument. Speaking to our news team, he said that he maintained the building with extra care due to […]

Courtesy Hiru News Director General of Archeology Senarath Dissanayake stated that he was subjected to various pressures from the Minister of Cultural Affairs  during the previous government. He was speaking at a media briefing today regarding the demolition of a building allegedly belonging to King Bhuvanekabahu’s royal palace in Kurunegala. He further stated that the Department […]

Courtesy Hiru News Minister Johnston Fernando stated that no one will be allowed to touch the Mayor of Kurunegala as long as he is the District Leader. Meanwhile, speaking at a media briefing held today, a former Member of Parliament stated that Minister Johnston does not know the name Buwaneka. Former Member of Parliament Mayantha […]

Courtesy Adaderana A new division is to be established under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), stated Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon. The unit will be titled ‘Illegal Assets Investigations Division’, said the Senior DIG addresssing a press conference held at the Police Headquarters this morning (19). The new unit will be in charge of probing assets […]

Courtesy Hiru News An archaeological committee appointed to probe the damage caused to the Royal Assembly Hall of the Kurunegala Kingdom dating back to the 13th Century visited the site today. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed a special 5-member committee to probe the damages to the building. Chairman of the committee, Director General of Archaeology, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four lorries, two vans and a luxury car belonging to two police officers attached to the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) have been taken into custody from Pallewela, Gampaha this evening (09). These PNB officers in question are currently under detention over the alleged links they had with drug dealers. The raid was carried […]

Courtesy Hiru News Rajitha Senaratne responded to former minister Wijedasa Rajapakse who said at a press conference that former MP Rajitha Senaratne had obtained money from Avant Garde.

උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප පාස්කු ඉරු දින සිනමන් ග්‍රෑන්ඩ් හෝටලයේදී මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බයක් පුපුරවා ගත් මොහොමඩ් ඉන්ෂාෆ් අහමඩ් නැමැත්තාට අයත් වූ තඹ නිෂ්පාදනය කරන කොලෝසස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමට අධික ලාභයක් ලැබෙන ලෙස, හිටපු කර්මාන්ත සහ වාණිජ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යවරයකු වූ රිෂාද් බදියුදීන් මහතා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය හරහා වට්ටම් ලබා දී ඇති බව කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ අලෙවි අධ්‍යක්ෂ සරත් උදයසිරි […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Although representatives of the World Muslim League (WML) had announced a donation of USD 5 million to support victims of the Easter Sunday attacks in July 2019, the Catholic Church was not aware of further progress of this initiative, Director of Sethsarana, the charity wing of the catholic church, […]

Courtesy Adaderana A commission will be appointed to look into the financial misconducts and irregularities in the loans provided by state banks during the government of Good Governance, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. This decision was reached during a meeting with the employees’ union of the Bank of Ceylon at the Temple Trees. The Premier […]

Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the Tamil United Freedom Front (TUFF) Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, whose startling comment on the killing of Army soldiers sparked controversy, has made yet another revelation. Joining ‘Mokada Wune’ programme on TV Derana, he said, late President Ranasinghe Premadasa, during his administration, had supplied weapons and funds to the LTTE […]

Courtesy The Island Prof. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan, who headed a high level government inquiry into the proposed finalisation of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement yesterday (25) told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that the previous yahapalana administration and the US had signed two agreements in 2017 and 2018 as regards two phases of the project. Prof. Gunaruwan said that though […]

By Shehan Daniel Courtesy The Daily Mirror Allegations of match-fixing by former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has brought the 2011 Cricket World Cup final, which Sri Lanka lost to India, under scrutiny. But are these legitimate allegations or politically motivated statements?  What is the allegation?    Speaking to a private television channel last week, Aluthgamage alleged that Sri Lanka had sold” the […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition political parties today expressed their views on the match-fixing allegation made by former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage with regard to the 2011 Cricket World Cup final with some of them calling for investigations. Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) candidate Hirunika Premachnadra told a news conference that those who were […]

Piyumi Fonseka Courtesy The Daily Mirror I wrote to the ICC in 2012 regarding this matter, yet they failed to respond” Some Cricket officials have purchased car companies, started new businesses after match loss” The Team changed in the last moment without prior consultation” An Indian newspaper knew about the team change before us, but […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General, today (19), told the court that issuance of arrest warrants by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court on former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake and several other bond scam suspects has followed a lawful procedure. The writ applications filed by Ravi Karunanayake, PTL owner Arjuna Aloysius, Central Bank employees Sangarapillai Pathumanapan and Indika […]

Courtesy Hiru News General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena, Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera says that the good governance regime that came into power in 2015, did not pay attention to what he said about Islamic extremism. The Thero made these revelations when he gave evidence before the Presidential Commission appointed to probe into […]

Courtesy Adaderana Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the incident of political victimization has issued summons to 17 individuals over a complaint lodged by Chairman of Avant-Garde. Chairman of Avant-Garde Nissanka Senadhipathi had lodged on the alleged loss incurred by his company due to arbitrary takeover. Seventeen parties have been asked to appear before the […]

Courtesy Hiru News The inquiring committee appointed to investigate alleged irregularities in the ETI Investments met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today(June 11). The Committee informed the President that the ETI Investments had not followed the proper procedures in their conduct from its inception. It had invested its assets in other institutes and […]

Courtesy Hiru News Chairman of the Avant Garde Company, Nissanka Senadhipathi states that the main reason for the loss of GSP plus for Sri Lanka is the illegal fishing business conducted by a private secretary of former Minister Rajitha Senaratne. This was while he was giving evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi On the 4th of June  former president made a startling revelations to say that he had to personally sign 22,000 documents within  a couple of days or so for the extradition of Arjun Mahandran from Singapore. He has been convinced again to say that he cannot be brought to Sri Lanka to face […]

Courtesy Hiru News Hiru CIA have been exposing the illegal land acquisition at Devanagala sacred area in the past few days. In spite of these revelations, and the island wide curfew in place Hiru CIA witnessed how the land invaders are working which was captured in our cameras. Subsequent to the Hiru CIA revelation about […]

ඩයනා උදයංගනී උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහතා මහ බැංකු වංචාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගන්නැයි තම පාලන සමයේ ජාත්‍යන්තර පොලීසියට දැනුම් දුන් විට ඒ රජයේම පිරිසක් ඔහු අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට මැදිහත් නොවන්නැයි ජාත්‍යන්තර පොලීසියට දන්වා තිබූ බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සභාපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අද (3) පැවසීය. අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහතා […]

Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Mahendran was saved from interpol by Yahapalana Government The prime suspect of the Central Bank bond scam case Arjuna Mahendran has changed his name and living in Singapore safely and happily, former President Maithripala Sirisena claimed today. He added that when Interpol was on the verge of arresting Mahendran […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමන්ගේ හඩ පට ප්‍රසිද්ධ නොකරන ලෙස එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ හිටපු ප්‍රබල ඇමතිවරයෙක් ඇවන්ගාඩ් සමාගමේ සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතාගේ ඉල්ලා ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. නිස්සංක සේනාධිපති මහතා මේ දිනවල ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ තමන් සතුව ඇති හඬපට ප්‍රසිද්ධ කිරීම හේතුවෙන් මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර ඇත. මෙම හඬ පට ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී තමන්ට දැඩි […]

Courtesy Adaderana Avant-Garde Chairman Nissanka Senadhipati has revealed that former Director General of the Bribery Commission had offered to release him from all legal proceedings if he implicates Former Defence Secretary and current President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the case. He stated this appearing before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing incidents of political victimisation during […]

රත්තනදෙණියේ මේධානන්ද හිමි චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග රාජ්‍ය නායිකාව සිටි කාලයේ රාජිත සේනාරත්න සහ ඔහුගේ සහෝදරයෙක් එක්ව සේනාරත්න අසෝසියේට්‌ නම් වාණිජ ආයතනයක්‌ පවත්වාගෙන ගියා. එමගින් කෙරුණේ පිට රටින් දන්ත වෛද්‍ය උපකරණ හා ඖෂධ ගෙන්වා ඒවා රජයේ ඔසුසලටත්, ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවටත් සපයන කාර්ය කරගෙන යාමයි. ඔවුන් මේ ව්‍යාපාරය විශාල ධනයක් උපයන ජාවාරමක් ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන ගියා. රහස්‌ පොලිසියට ලැබුන තොරතුරක් මත […]

Courtesy Hiru News Opposition and ruling party politicians and several other parties expressed their views regarding the remand of former MP Rajitha Senaratne.

Courtesy Hiru News Politicians including the clergy today expressed their views against the former minister Mangala Samaraweera for making a defamatory statement regarding the Maha Sangha.