Courtesy Hindustan Times Iran intends to repatriate non-essential members of the 183-strong crew of IRIS Lavan. A limited number of crew members will stay back to maintain the warship The same chartered flight will also carry the bodies of Iranian sailors who were killed when another warship, IRIS Dena, was torpedoed and sunk by a […]

Courtesy Hiru News A special aircraft carrying the remains of 84 Iranian sailors who died aboard the ‘IRIS DENA’ departed from Mattala International Airport for Iran this afternoon (13). Deputy Minister of Defense Aruna Jayasekara stated that the Iranian warship sank in Sri Lankan waters following a strike. The vessel was destroyed on March 4th […]

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Courtesy Snopes The IRIS Dena was headed back to Iran from Visakhapatnam, India, where it participated in a multination naval exercise. Image courtesy of Getty Images On March 4, 2026, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that a U.S. submarine had torpedoed an Iranian warship, the IRIS Dena, off the southern coast of Sri Lanka.  The Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy The Straits Times Sri Lankan navy personnel rescuing Iranian sailors from the IRIS Dena on March 4, after it was torpedoed by the US military. Summary WASHINGTON – The United States is pressing Sri Lanka’s government not to repatriate the survivors from the Iranian warship it sank this week, as well as the crew […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, March 6 (Daily Mirror) – A protest under the theme No Blood for Oil” was held in Colombo, condemning the recent military attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel. The demonstration drew a number of activists and supporters who gathered to express opposition to the strikes and call for […]

Naval News Navy 2026 Sri Lanka took control of the Iranian naval auxiliary ship IRIS Bushehr after the vessel requested assistance near the island following the sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena by a U.S. submarine. Sri Lanka took control of the Iranian naval auxiliary ship IRIS Bushehr after the vessel requested assistance near […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරයේ මහමොළකරු ලෙස සැලකෙන සහරාන් හෂීම්ගේ නඩුව වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නීතිඥයා අද මෙරට අධිකරණ ඇමති ධුරය හොබවන බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. රත්නපුර පැවති ජන හමුවකදී අදහස් දක්වමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ වීරවංශ මහතා කියා සිටියේ වත්මන් […]

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Gamini Goonetilleke The first mortar screamed just after dawn on 10 June 1990. It tore through the coral-stone ramparts of Jaffna fort, the blast rattling every window in the city. Inside the pentagonal walls, 130 men- soldiers of the Sinha Regiment and young police recruits- looked at one another and knew: this was no skirmish. […]

Courtesy HiruNews රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධි සේවයේ හිටපු ප්‍රධානී, විශ්‍රාමික මේජර් ජෙනරල් සුරේෂ් සලේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් ජාත්‍යන්තර ත්‍රස්තවාදය සහ ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳ විශේෂඥයෙකු වන මහාචාර්ය රොහාන් ගුණරත්න සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ මෙම අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම දේශපාලනික ක්‍රියාවලියක් ලෙස පෙනෙන බවයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වඩාත්ම ගෞරවනීය ජාතික ආරක්ෂක වෘත්තිකයෙකු වන ජෙනරාල් සුරේෂ් සලේ මුළු ජීවිතයම ශ්‍රී ලංකාව […]

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Dr Gamini Goonetilleke at Elephant Pass, 11th August 1991 A Defining Moment in Sri Lanka’s Modern Military History Elephant Pass—known locally as Alimankada—occupies one of the most strategically decisive locations in Sri Lanka’s geography and history. It is a narrow land corridor, barely a few kilometres wide at its most constricted point, yet it serves […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has expressed serious concern over what she called the decline of Sri Lanka’s professional public service, warning that selective application of justice and politically motivated governance are undermining the foundations of the State. In a statement posted on her Facebook page, Kumaratunga said she was sharing excerpts […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three Swedish-made rocket launchers, believed to have been carefully buried underground by the LTTE during the war, has been discovered by security forces in the Kudumbimalai area of Batticaloa. The weapons were recovered during a special joint search operation conducted by Special Task Force (STF) personnel and Army Intelligence officers in the Kudumbimalai […]

 KELUM BANDARA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Erik Solheim, a Norwegian diplomat and former Cabinet minister best known in Sri Lanka for his role as the chief international facilitator of the Sri Lankan peace process during the 2002–2006 ceasefire talks, shared his views in an interview with Daily Mirror about the pitfalls of the process . […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police Media Spokesperson Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) F.U. Wootler said that Interpol ‘Red Notices’ have been obtained against 95 Sri Lankan organised criminal figures currently hiding overseas. Addressing a media briefing held today (16), he said that 10 suspects were brought back to Sri Lanka through ‘Red Notices’ in 2024, while 11 […]

Courtesy Hiru News Nine individuals, including Ven. Balangoda Kassapa Thero and three other monks, remain in custody until January 19 for allegedly violating the Coast Conservation Act. The charges involve the unauthorised construction of a roof and enclosure for a Buddha statue at the Sri Sambuddha Jayanti Bodhiraja Temple in Trincomalee. The Trincomalee Magistrate’s Court […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, January 7 (Daily Mirror) – Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that information uncovered during investigations suggests that Pulasthini Mahendran, also known as Sarah Jasmine and linked to the 2019 Easter attacks, is not dead. He also said there was no indication that Sarah Jasmine is currently […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Hiru TV has issued a scathing response to the Police Media Division—an entity funded by the public purse—asserting that the division’s recent letter regarding the assault on a police officer involved in a cannabis raid in Embilipitiya constitutes a severe blow to the public’s right to information and democratic principles. The reply […]