SAMAA | Samaa Web Desk Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced a bravery award for a Sialkot factory worker who tried to shield Priyantha Kumara from the mob before the Sri Lankan national was lynched and his body was set on fire on Friday. Malik Adnan has told SAMAA TV that he was trying to save humanity. A […]

Courtesy The International News Punjab government has sent an initial investigation report to Prime Minister Imran Khan, sources say SIALKOT: Two key suspects have “confessed” to the police of their involvement a day earlier in the torture and killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager, well-placed sources told Geo News on Saturday. During initial interrogation, the two […]

Courtesy The Express Tribune Policy say initial report of incident submitted to PM Imran; 112 suspects detained so far SIALKOT: The police have arrested a prime suspect and booked at least 800 people under the Anti-Terrorism Act a day after a mob tortured a Sri Lankan man, employed as a manager in a factory on […]

SAMAA | Samaa Web Desk  The body has been moved to Lahore The preliminary postmortem of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara reveals that he died of a severe blow to his head and most of his limb bone had been shattered before the body was set on fire. The report and additional videos that surfaced on […]

SAMAA | Hamid ur Rehman – Dr Niaz Brohi Pakistan is the largest recipient of eye donations from Sri Lanka, having received at least 35,000 corneas since 1967, says Dr Niaz Brohi a leading ophthalmologist of the country. He is a member of the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society from Pakistan. Ever since a mob lynched the […]

Courtesy The Telegraph In a shocking incident on Friday, angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan lynched Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana over allegations of blasphemy  Over 800 people have been booked under terrorism charges while 13 prime suspects are among 118 arrested so far in the horrific lynching of a Sri Lankan national over allegations of blasphemy in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Punjab government spokesperson Hassan Khawar on Friday said that at least 50 people allegedly involved in killing of a Sri Lankan national over blasphemy allegations in Sialkot have been detained thus far. The Sri Lankan national was tortured to death in the Punjab Town earlier today. An angry mob of hundreds […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he is overseeing the investigations into the killing of a Sri Lankan national over blasphemy allegations in Sialkot and that those responsible will be punished with full severity of the law. A mob in Sialkot brutally murdered the Sri Lankan man and set his body […]

Courtesy Adaderana Rev. Father Cyril Gamini Fernando has been informed to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) tomorrow morning, the Police Spokesman said. SSP Nihal Thalduwa said that Father Cyril Gamini has been notified to appear at the CID at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow (22). He had previously appeared before the CID on two occasions […]

By HELENA HORTON FOR THE DAILY MAIL The Government has recognised crabs, octopus and lobsters as sentient beings A report for ministers confirmed evidence of sentience in decapod crustaceans It recommended that they should be included in animal protection legislation  A ban on boiling lobsters alive came closer yesterday after the Government recognised crabs, octopus and lobsters […]

by Senaka Weeraratna Build your wealth on right living and not through causing injury or destruction to the lives of innocent animals. Remember that kill and eat is not a Buddhist tenet. Snuffing out the life of a defenseless animal is not sporting conduct. It is contrary to all tests of fairness. The animal has […]

Courtesy Hiru News With the policy decision taken by the government to expand the use of organic fertilizers by restricting the use of chemical fertilizers, a serious crisis situation has arisen regarding fertilizers in the country. Against such a backdrop, the Hiru CIA today (20) revealed about a new racket in the Kurunegala area that […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has launched investigations into 702 Sri Lankans who are allegedly linked to the members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operating from India. The TID has informed the Colombo Additional Magistrate of the matter on Monday (November 01). According to Ada Derana correspondent, details of […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu The protest comes in the wake of an increase in reported intrusions by Indian trawlers over the last few weeks into Sri Lanka’s territorial waters. Dozens of northern fishermen on Sunday set out on boats from the coast of the eastern Mullaitivu district to Point Pedro in Jaffna in the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Reviving Kantale Sugar Factory Defunct vehicles and unserviceable machinery – Pix by Samantha Perera The Kantale Sugar Factory was a Czechoslovakian Government aid grant commissioned during Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s tenure However, privatisation adversely affected its operations. Inefficient management and issues reported by workers, eventually led to its closure Critics point out that the […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express The victims were lured on the pretext of getting jobs in Canada, but were instead forcefully confined in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. BENGALURU: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against six accused persons from Tamil Nadu for their alleged involvement in an organised international human trafficking […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court has served charges on former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundera and former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando. The duo was served charged over the negligence of duties on the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. The case was taken up before the Trial-at-Bar at the Colombo High Court today […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Eight prisoners detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) at the Anuradhapura prison today filed a Fundamental Rights petition in Supreme Court against the alleged criminal conduct on the part of the State Minister Lohan Ratwatte. The petitioners are seeking an order in respect of the alleged serious offences committed by […]

Courtesy Adaderana A software engineer of the Epic Lanka Technologies company has been arrested over the deletion of data from the database of the National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA). The arrest has been made by the Criminal Investigations Department at around 11 am this morning (September 28). Interrogation of the said software engineer has revealed […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Further investigations were being carried out into former Terrorism Investigation Division Director Nalaka Silva upon a compliant lodged by Anti-Corruption Force Director Namal Kumara in 2018 on an alleged plot to assassinate the then President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary and incumbent President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today

විශේෂාංගය කතුවැකිය උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම මෙරට රාජාවලියේ කීර්තිමත් රජුන් අතර විමලධර්මසූරිය රජුට (1562-1604) හිමිවන්නේ සුවිශේෂී ස්ථානයකි. කොනප්පු බණ්ඩාර නමින් පෘතුගාලයේ ලිස්බන් නුවර සෙමනේරියක අධ්‍යාපනය ලද හෙතෙම භාෂා කීපයක හසළ දැනුම ඇත්තකු ලෙසද සැලකේ. විමලධර්මසූරිය රජ කරන සමයේ ප්‍රථම ලන්දේසි නියෝජිත පිරිස මෙරටට පැමිණ තිබේ. එම නාවික කණ්ඩායම පැමිණියේ සෝබෝල්ඩ් ද වයිට්ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙනි.  විමලධර්මසූරිය රජු නැඟෙනහිර පළාතේ […]

කතුවැකිය උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ලොහාන් රත්වත්තේ ආයෙත් වරක් පිස්සු කෙළියේය. පිස්සු කෙළිය කියා කීවේ මෙහෙම වැඩ කරන්නට පුළුවන් වන්නේ සිහිබුද්ධියෙන් නම් නොවන බැවිනි. මත්පැනින් සූර්වී සිටියාම සිහිබුද්ධිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් අඩුවන්නේ නැතත් ටිකක් හෝ එහි අඩු ලුහුඬුවක් පෙනෙන්නට පටන් ගනී. මෑතදී වාර්තා වුණු ලොහාන්ගේ පිස්සු නැටිලි දෙක තුනේදීම ඔහු හිටියේ බීමතින් බවට ඕනෑ තරම් සාක්ෂි ඇත්තේය. ලොහාන් නම් […]

Courtesy Hiru News Thushan Gunawardena, the executive director of the Consumer Affairs Authority, has decided to resign.Today’s hard talk is regarding this incident;

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ලොහාන් රත්වත්තේ මහතා අනුරාධපුර බන්ධනාගාරයට ඇතුළු වී සිදු කර ඇතැයි කියන කලබැගෑනිය සත්‍ය එකක් බව විපක්ෂයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් පිරිසක් තියා සිටිති. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=655544888758289&t=28 අදාළ සිදුවීම ගැන සොයා බැලීම සඳහා එම බන්ධනාගාරයට ගිය මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වන මනෝ ගනේෂන්, කාවින්ද ජයවර්ධන, රෝහන බණ්ඩාර යන මන්ත‍්‍රීවරන් කියා සිටියේ බීමතින් බන්ධනාගාරයට ඇතුළු වි ඇති […]

Courtesy Hiru News Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has also paid attention to the news report regarding the exorbitant room rates and other charges levied from migrant workers by the hotels that provide quarantine facilities, The minister was commenting on the revelation made by the Hiru News team regarding exorbitant rates charged for […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Ceylon Today Colombo, September 13: Recent detections of large quantities of heroin from vessels sailing in the Indian Ocean have once again brought home the imperative need for cooperation between the countries of the region. At the end of August, the Sri Lanka Navy had seized a trawler with 5 suspects, carrying over […]

Courtesy Hiru News The CEO of Epic Lanka Technology, Tharindra Kalpage, who had won the tender to maintain the database of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), has been arrested by the CID a short while ago. The arrest was made in connection to the incident where the data was lost recently from the database […]

Courtesy Adaderana A jailer has been transferred to the Vavuniya Prisons after it was revealed that he had provided a mobile phone to MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is incarcerated at the Magazine Prison. The transfer came into effect following a disciplinary inquiry, the Prisons Spokesman, Commissioner of Prisons (Administration) Chandana Ekanayake said. The mobile phone […]

lanka C news ගබඩා තුළ සඟවා තිබියදී සොයාගත් සීනි මෙට්ට්‍රික් ටොන් 29,900ක ප්‍රමාණයක් අද (01) සිදු කෙරුණු විමර්ශන සහ මෙහෙයුම් ක්‍රියාවලියෙන් පසු රජයට පවරා ගත් බව අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය සේවා කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් එන්.ඩී.එස්.පී. නිවුන්හැල්ල මහතා පවසයි. මෙම සීනි තොගය පාලන මිලක් යටතේ රාජ්‍ය සහ පෞද්ගලික වෙළෙඳ ආයතන මගින් පාරිභෝගික ජනතාව වෙත අළෙවි කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර […]