Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE: (7.25 p.m.) – Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara has also been remanded until tomorrow (03). Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne visited the Police Chief at the Narahenpita Police Hospital, a short while ago, and ordered that he be placed in remand custody until tomorrow. Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando has been remanded […]

Courtesy Adaderana Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara, who was sent of compulsory leave in the wake of the Easter Sunday terror attacks, has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).  He was taken into custody by a CID team at the Police Hospital in Narahenpita, the Police Spokesman said. Meanwhile former Defence […]

Courtesy Adaderana A team of CID officers have arrested former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fenando, who was receiving treatment at the General Hospital in Colombo, the police spokesman said. He stated that Fernando was taken into custody by CID officers who visited the hospital, a short while ago.  The former Defence Secretary and IGP Pujith Jayasundara […]

Courtesy AFP AFP/File / ISHARA S. KODIKARAThe Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka killed 258 people Sri Lanka’s police chief and a top defence official should be tried for “grave crimes against humanity” over failure to prevent Easter bombings that killed 258, the state prosecutor said Monday. Dappula de Livera said Inspector-General of Police Pujith […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to name Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando as suspects of the Easter attacks. Further, the Attorney General has requested the Acting IGP to produce them before courts, stated the Attorney General’s Department. Coordinating […]

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka/ Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Ten years ago, Sri Lanka prevailed in a Thirty Years War against a suicide-bombing separatist terrorism. Ten years later, this year 2019, on Easter Sunday, we were attacked atrociously by another type of terrorism: Islamist jihadist terrorism. So, the question of terrorism has been and remains an existential problem […]

By Steve A. Morrell Courtesy The Island At the seminar – (L-R): Tamara Kunanayakam, Mayura Gunawansa, President, OPA Eng. Nissanka Perera, Dr. Palitha Kohona, Eng. Saman Warusawithana, President-elect and Eng. Nissanka Senarath, OPA, Secretary, OPA.(Pic by Dharmasena Welipitiya) Asserting that the two contentious agreements with the US were disadvantages to Sri Lanka, a top former […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 28 (newsin.asia): Dr. Palitha Kohona, a leading member of the opposition organization Eliya” on Thursday expressed opposition to the proposed Colombo-Trincomalee Economic Corridor (CTEC). Dr.Kohona ,who was Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary during Eelam War IV, objected to the CTEC on two grounds: Firstly, the CTEC cannot be a priority for the economic […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Dr. Mohamed Shafi has performed 4372 Caesarian surgeries at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) informed the Kurunegala Magistrate’s Court today (27). The CID produced a 210 pages long report to the court on the finding of their investigations on the assets of Dr. Shafi and the complaints lodged by […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island June 26, 2019, 8:56 pm  The case where several officers and other rankers of the Sri Lanka Navy have been implicated in the disappearance of 11 persons during the war in 2008-2009 has made waves both locally as well as internationally. At the international level, when the Office […]

By C. A. Chandraprema (Continued from yesterday) Courtesy The Island Navy Sampath After the abduction of these 11 persons, the details in the B reports submitted by the CID reveal that at least two of them mainly Rajiv Naganathan and Ali Anver had made calls to the outside over mobile phones lent to them by […]

By Ifham Nizam Courtesy The Island June 27, 2019, 10:06 pm  Dr. Kohona addressing the media. Mohan Samaranayake looks on(pic courtesy Eliya) Sri Lanka has no defence agreement with the US and it should be cautious as regards agreements that may put it on a collision course with countries like India, China and Iran, warns […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake, yesterday, told the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage that there was still the possibility of terrorist attacks.  Testifying before the PSC, Lt. Gen. Senanayake said: “There is still room for attacks similar to the Easter Sunday carnage. There is […]

Courtesy Adaderana No one can assuredly say that the threat of terrorism in the country is completely over, says Commander of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake. Testifying before the Special Parliamentary Select Committee this afternoon (26), the Army Commander pointed out that giving such assurance is impractical. Just because several intelligence officers […]

lanka C news පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ සියලු දෙනා අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇති බවත් එම අන්තවාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදී තර්ජනය දැන් අවසන් බවටත් අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා මෑතකදී පවසා ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ෆීල්ඩ් මාර්ෂල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මෙම ත්‍රස්තවාදී තර්ජනය මෙතනින් අවසන් යැයි කිසිවකු සිතන්නේ නම් ඔහු නොම්මර එකේ මෝඩයෙක් බවද ෆොන්සේකා මහතා කියා […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) threat has been effectively neutralised and all those who had links to NTJ leader Zahran have been arrested. He assures that the country is now safe. Curiously, he is striving to have the government’s controversial Counterterrorism Bill ratified in a bid […]

Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy Ceylon Today Attorney General Dappula de Livera has indicted three former LTTE members, in the Vavuniya High Court, over the killing of 26 prisoners of war. The accused, Irasathurai Thiruwarul, Madirasan Sulakshan and Ganeshan Darshan along with another person, who has not been identified by the prosecution, have been indicted under 2(1)(a) […]

Sri Lanka Together පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරයට මාස දෙකයි. එහි වගකීම පැවරෙන්නෙ කාටද? බුද්ධි අංශ සහ පොලීසිය සේනාධිනායකයා දැනුවත් කළාද? එම ප්‍රහාරය කළමණාකරණය කිරීමට අවකාශ තිබුණේද?සම්පූර්ණ විශ්ලේශණය බුද්ධි අංශයේ ව්‍යුහය, බුද්ධි අංශ ධුරාවලිය සහ එහි ව්‍යූහය පිළිබඳව විස්තරාත්මක විග්‍රහය ආචාර්ය අජිත් රෝහණ කොළොන්නේගෙන්…

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  ⋆ පරිප්පු දැමීමට පැමිණි බව කියන ඉන්දීය ඇන්ටනෝව් යානා අඩි 1500 ක් දක්වා පහළට එද්දී නියමුවන් බියට පත්ව සිටියා  ⋆ මුහුදින් ගෙන ආ බඩුවලට නාවික හමුදා මුර යාත‍්‍රා දෙකක් අභියෝග කළ හැටි  ⋆ ඉන්දියාවේ දීන කි‍්‍රයාව හමුවේ ජනපති ජේ. ආර්. ජයවර්ධන හෙවත් යැංකි ඩිකීට ඇමරිකාවත් පිටුපෑවා  ⋆ යුද අපරාධ ගැන […]

Courtesy Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – A state of emergency was extended by Sri Lanka’s President on Saturday (June 22), going back on pledges to relax the tough laws introduced after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 258 people. President Maithripala Sirisena said in a decree he believed there was a “public emergency” in the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Rome, Reuters – The Head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the Government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a total lack of interest” in determining why intelligence reports were ignored. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith spoke of his frustrations just hours […]

Written by Sneha Mary Koshy Courtesy NDTV According to the details of inter-police communication, Kerala police officers hinted at the possibility of such a development. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  India and Sri Lanka are likely to be under threat with terror group ISIS turning its attention to the Indian Ocean Region in the wake of losses across Syria and […]

Philip Pullella Courtesy Reuters ROME (Reuters) – The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a total lack of interest” in determining why intelligence reports were ignored.FILE PHOTO: Security personnel stand guard in front […]

Courtesy Adaderana he Attorney General (AG)has directed the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to carry out criminal investigations against several police officers lapses with regard to the Easter Sunday attacks, stated Attorney General’s Department. In the letter to the acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne, the Attorney General refers to the final report of the special […]

By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka faced and fought a terrorist threat for thirty years and prevailed, ten years ago. Just recently, on Easter Sunday, we were confronted by a new terrorist threat. So, Sri Lanka is not apologetic, when I say that we view all these problems through the prism of the existential […]

By Saman Indrajith Kumarasiri The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage, yesterday, decided not to permit the media to cover its sessions when serving military officers testified on sensitive issues concerning national security, Chairman of the Parliamentary select committee probing the Easter Sunday carnage and Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarsiri said yesterday.  Kumarasiri […]

Courtesy Eurasia review Sri Lanka’s Attorney General Dappula de Livera PC has instructed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Terrorist Investigations Division (TID) to continue probes into members of three proscribed extremist Islamic organizations including National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ). The Attorney General’s Co-ordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne told that the Attorney General had […]

Courtesy TASS Security Council Deputy Secretary Yuri Kokov said that currently, the main centers of terrorist activity are the Middle East, Africa, South and South-East Asia UFA, June 19. /TASS/. The Sri Lanka terrorist attacks were organized by the militants of the Islamic State (IS, terrorist organization outlawed in Russia – TASS) formerly active in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror UPFA MP Nimal Lanza today questioned whether MPs Kabir Hashim and Abdul Haleem were sworn in as Ministers because the probe on Easter Sunday attacks had been completed or whether the one month deadline they gave was over. Mr. Lanza was referring to the one month deadline which the Muslim Ministers gave the […]