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Courtesy Hiru News The bill to repeal the Chief of Defence Staff Act was officially published via a government gazette. Prepared under the directives of the Minister of Defence, the document was issued on May 15. The legislation provides for the abolition of the Chief of Defence Staff Act No. 35 of 2009, alongside all […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cover of the report launched by the Centre for Society and Religion and titled ‘Memory, Pain and Hope; Seeking Justice Even after 7 Years’ Since 2019, April 21 is not just another day for Sri Lankans who became victims of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks. Seven years have elapsed since […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror April 21 (Daily Mirror) – Ship-tracking data indicates that a crude oil tanker intercepted by the US military in the Indian Ocean made a sharp change of course in the early hours of this morning and is now broadcasting its position around 700km (430 miles) south-east of Sri Lanka. According to […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror One of the mostly viewed photos available on the internet of Zahran Hashim Whatever Gammanpila’s critics may say, it is indeed a fact that Zahran Hashim played a pivotal and pre-eminent role in the Easter bombings of April 21, 2019, perpetrated by suicide bombers. Zahran Hashim may or may not have […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Oceanic Pivot: As Diego Garcia becomes a frontline target, Washington turns its gaze toward Colombo’s strategic neutrality Iran’s apparent use of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in the attack has startled the West, showing a reach far longer than the medium-range capabilities previously assumed.” The shifting tides of the Indian Ocean have placed […]

Security Amid worsening shortages, rationing has intensified, protests have erupted in cities like Khomam, and the overall social climate has grown increasingly volatile i24NEWS Thunderstorms ALAIN JOCARD (AFP/Archives) An Iranian water resources specialist has accused the United States and Israel of manipulating regional weather patterns to intensify Iran’s severe drought.  According to the Middle East […]

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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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