Courtesy Adaderana A special search operation has been kicked off to apprehend those who gather in groups at apartment complexes and other such places in Colombo and suburbs, says DIG Ajith Rohana. He added that the police have already received information on such persons. Taking into account the request made by farmers, curfew has been […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two suspects connected to the Easter Sunday terror attacks have been arrested, Police Media Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne. Holding a special press conference earlier this evening (02), Senaratne said that these arrests were made based on the investigations carried out along the arrest of the main suspect who had organized the suicide bomb […]

Courtesy channelnewsasia.com COLOMBO:  Sri Lanka’s navy seized US$65 million worth of crystal methamphetamine and ketamine on Wednesday (Apr 1) in the country’s biggest drugs bust, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, authorities raided a flagless vessel in the country’s southern waters and arrested nine Pakistani men suspected of smuggling the drugs. Navy personnel, wearing special […]

Courtesy Adaderana The main suspect who had allegedly organized the suicide bomb attack Zion Church in Batticaloa on Easter Sunday 2019 has been arrested. Police Media Spokesperson SP Jaliya Senaratne mentioned this addressing a special press conference held at the Department of Government Information this afternoon (29). On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches […]

Courtesy Adaderana Acting IGP C. D. Wickramaratne has ordered police stations to ensure that all supermarkets, groceries and pharmacies, except state-run Rajya Osu Sala outlets, in the country are closed with immediate effect. The Police Media Spokesman said that although supermarkets have been permitted to deliver essential food items to the homes of consumers, there […]

Courtesy Adaderana The President’s Media Division has announced the updated scheduled with the times for the lifting and re-imposition of the curfew currently in effect across the island. The President’s Media Division has announced the updated scheduled with the times for the lifting and re-imposition of the curfew currently in effect across the island. The […]

Courtesy Hiru News The President’s Media Division (PMD) stated the following with regard to the enforcement of curfew and the times that curfew will be relaxed. The Curfew currently enforced in Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts will continue until further notice. The existing curfew in Puttalam, Vavuniya, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and Jaffna districts will be […]

Courtesy Hiru News Police have arrested 2,405 persons who violated curfew regulations this afternoon. The Police Media Spokesperson’s office stated that 646 vehicles have been taken into custody during this period

Courtesy Adadera The curfew currently imposed in the districts of Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, and Jaffna in the Northern Province has been extended till 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday (24). However, it will be re-imposed until further notice at 2.00 p.m. on the same day, the government announced.  Accordingly, the residents of these districts have been […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another inmate injured in the Anuradhapura Prison shooting incident has succumbed to his injuries, stated the Director of Anuradhapura Hospital. This brings the total number of deaths in the incident to 2, stated the Hospital Director. A tense situation occurred at the Anuradhapura Prison this evening (21) leading to a shooting incident. Previously, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police Media Division stated that 180 individuals have been arrested over violating the curfew within the time period between 6 pm yesterday (20) and 9 pm today (21). The government yesterday (20) imposed an island-wide curfew from 6.00 pm until 6.00 am on Monday (23). The curfew was enforced as a means to […]

Courtesy Adaderana An island-wide curfew will be imposed from 6.00 pm today (20) until 6.00 am on Monday (23), says the President’s Office. The curfew is to be imposed with a view to prevent violation of provisions and regulations of the Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance imposed for prevention of spreading COVID – 19 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Mayor of Dambulla and another individual have been arrested in connection with organising and participating in a bicycle race, despite a ban on such events and large gatherings due to the Covid-19 outbreak, police said. The bicycle race had commenced in the Dambulla town yesterday (19) morning while the start of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Railway Control Room says that all train services will be halted from 3.30 p.m. today and will resume at 6.00 a.m. on Monday (23). Accordingly, the train departing at 3.30 p.m. from Fort Railway Station to Mahawa will be the final train journey of the day, it said. The decision has been […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජයේ ඉහළම තනතුරු දැරූ පුද්ගලයාගෙන් පවා ප්‍රශ්න කළ යුතු බව අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසනවා. 73 වන කොළඹ අගරදගුරු පදවි ප්‍රාප්තිය වෙනුවෙන් රාගම – බැසිලිකා දේවස්ථානයේ පැවති ළමාදින සමරු උත්සවයකට එක්වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළා. උන්වහන්සේ එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් කියා සිටියේ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ ඉහළ සිට […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් එවක කැබිනට් අමාත්‍යවරුන් වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ රිෂාඩ් බදියුදින් සහ කබීර් හෂීම් යන මහත්වරුන් තුර්කියේ ෆෙටෝ ත්‍රස්ත සංවිධානයට මුදල් සැපයූ මෙරට ව්‍යාපාර හා සම්බන්ධ වී ඇති බව පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති කොමිසමේදී අද අනාවරණය වුණා. ඒ විදේශ සබඳතා අමාත්‍යංශයේ යුරෝපා හා මධ්‍යම ආසියානු කලාපය භාර අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරියගෙන් සිදූකළ සාක්ෂි විමසීමේදී.

Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday attacks has handed over its second interim report to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The report was handed over to the President at the Presidential Secretariat this evening (02). The first interim report of the Commission was presented to the President on 20th December 2019. The […]

By Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Feb.26 (Daily Mirror) – Former Army Commander Daya Ratnayake says allegations of the military committing war crimes during the final stages of the civil conflict against the LTTE are baseless and false” and blames the previous government of failing to clear up the military’s image in the international arena. He […]

Kurulu Koojana Kariyakarawana Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a bid to escalate the security and to counter all suspicious movements, the Department of Immigration and Emigration has set up three special surveillance units at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) recently. A senior official in charge of the department’s investigation unit told Daily Mirror that the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳව සඳහන් වූ ඊමේල් පණිවුඩයක් කොළඹ උතුර භාර පොලිස් අධිකාරීවරයාට කලින් ලැබී තිබුනත් ඔහු එම පණිවුඩය පොලිස් ස්ථානවලට යොමු කර ඇත්තේ ප්‍රහාරය එල්ල වූ දිනයේ පස්වරුවේ බව පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳව සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ අනාවරණය වුණා. ඒ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියේ විද්‍යුත් තැපෑල පරීක්ෂා කළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පරිඝණක හදිසි […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පසුගිය යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව දේශපාලන පළිගැනීමක් මත, ත්‍රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීම පිළිබඳ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සහ උපාය මාර්ග පිළිබඳ පශ්චාත් උපාධියක් හදාරමින් සිටියදී තමන්ව මෙරටට ගෙන්වා නොගත්තේ නම් පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාර මාලාව වළක්වාගැනීමට හැකියාව තිබූ බව රියර් අද්මිරාල් ඩී.කේ.පී. දසනායක මහතා පවසනවා. ඒ, දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම්වලට ලක්වූවන් පිළිබඳ සෙවීමේ ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ අද සාක්ෂි ලබාදෙමින්. කොළඹදී […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Refuting media reports that the Cardinal had expressed his dissatisfaction with the Presidential Commission probing the Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith yesterday said he was very satisfied with the Presidential Commission. The Archbishop expressed this view at a press release yesterday. Following is the press conference issued […]

Courtesy Adaderana Members of the Sri Lanka Corps Military Police (SLCMP) of the Army have now been deployed in most congested entry/exit points in the Greater Colombo area under a new assignment in order to help ease the city traffic congestion in collaboration with Colombo City Traffic Division.   The project, implemented on the guidelines given […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The six-man task force, headed by Maj.Gen.Jagath Alwis, Chief of National Intelligence, will report on a weekly basis Colombo, February 23: The Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has established a Task Force (TF) to monitor the progress to speed up the on-going investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into last year’s Easter Sunday […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, in a statement, in Sinhala read out at churches, on Sunday, Feb 23, called for a thorough investigation to find out why the political leadership and the security authorities had failed to act in spite of having specific intelligence on the Easter Sunday […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has re-issued a Gazette Extraordinary calling upon the armed forces to maintain public order across the country with effect from today (22). The President issued the gazette notification by virtue of the powers vested in him by Section 12 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40). Accordingly, the Army, Navy […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Defence Ministry vehemently denies the accusations by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), which claimed that families of enforced disappearance and activists supporting them are under the microscope of the Sri Lankan Security Forces and intelligence agencies.   The HRW releasing its new report has claimed ‘Sri Lankan Security Forces and intelligence agencies have intensified surveillance […]

By Ambassador M K BHADRAKUMAR Courtesy Rediff.com February 21, 2020 19:23 IST ‘Clearly, Washington has all but given up hope following US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells’s stormy visit to Colombo last month where she read the riot act to Sri Lankan leaders to sign the pending status of forces agreement allowing American troops […]

Courtesy Adaderana It was revealed before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Probing the Easter Sunday Attacks that back in 2016, a letter from Turkey had notified the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the presence of ‘FETO’ terrorists in Sri Lanka. Acting Deputy Directress of the Counter Terrorism Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mahesha […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් තුර්කියේ ක්‍රියාත්මක ‘ෆෙටෝ” නැමැති ත්‍රස්ත සංවිධානයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මකවීම පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු ඇතුලත් රහසිගත ලිපි ගොණුවක් 2016 වසරේදී එරට රජය විසින් යොමුකර තිබියදීත් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිසි ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගෙන නොමැති බවට පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ සොයන ජනපති කොමසම හමුවේ අද අණාවරණ වුණා. කොමිසම හමුවේ අද සාක්ෂි ලබා දුන්නේ ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ වැඩ බලන අතිරේක […]