Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has granted an extension of service to Army Chief of Staff Major General Shavendra Silva. The extension will be effective from the 22nd of June until the 31st of December 2019.  Major General Shavendra Silva is also the Colonel of the Regiment, Gajaba Regiment and Colonel of the Regiment, Commando […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has requested the Acting IGP for an expedited report on several investigations carried out by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) including the Easter Day bombings. The AG Department issuing notice has requested a report on the Easter Day attacks, National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) activities […]

එරන්ද කේ නවරත්න,බොදු බල සේනා මාධ්‍ය අංශය, පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයෙන් පසු නවතා දමා තිබු පකිස්තානු මක්තබ් කුරාණ අන්තවාදී ළමා අද්‍යාපනය ක්‍රමය නැවත ලබන 18 වැනිදා සිට යළි ආරම්භ කිරිමට සමස්ත ලංකා ජමයතුල් උලමා සංවිධානයේ නායක රිස්වි මුෆ්ති තීරණය කර ඇති බව අප වෙත තොරතුරු වාර්තා වේ. එමෙන්ම  මක්තබ් මද්‍රරාසා තුල මෙතුවක්කල් නියම කර තිබු අරාබි නිල […]

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Courtesy Xinhua,China.org.cn Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ishwar Pokhrel said on Sunday that the bombing attacks in Sri Lanka in April had sent a clear and strong message that a new type of terrorism threat has arrived in South Asia. The defence minister made the remarks while addressing a seminar titled “Dialogues on […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka conducting investigations to find out wherther some Saudi nationals were involved in the Easter Sunday attacks may need Saudi Arabian help to verify the identities of three persons who were here at the time of the April 21 blasts but left the country the following day.  Authoritative […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah has left the Terrorism Investigations Division (TID) after giving a statement for over 8 hours, Ada Derana reporter said. The Police Spokesman’s Office confirmed that he left the TID at around 5.45 p.m. after recording a statement.  Hizbullah arrived at the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) this morning […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya and Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two people, who had pledged to National Thowheed Jama’at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim to operate as suicide bombers, were arrested in a joint raid conducted by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) and the Army yesterday, Police said today. Zahran masterminded the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror A top US government official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka in the analysis of evidence and phone details in connection with the serial bombings on Easter Sunday. The official told a select group of journalists that the FBI, […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO • Five Sri Lankans suspected of having links to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people were brought home in police custody yesterday after being deported from Saudi Arabia, police said. Police declined to provide details of the arrests beyond saying the five were picked up in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s security forces have arrested two individuals who believed to be close associates of terrorist leader Zahran Hashim, the ringleader of the Easter Sunday attackers. Police said that the suspects were arrested at Hingula in Mawanella during a secret operation jointly carried out by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) and the Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana One of the five suspects, who were arrested in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for allegedly having strong links to the terrorist group that carried out the coordinated attacks on Easter Sunday, is also in connection with the murders of two police constables at Vavunativu, the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. He stated […]

මව්බිම දැන් බොදුබල සේනාවට සම්බන්ධ ලිපි ලේඛන සහ පසුගිය දිනවල ලංකාවේ සිදුවුණු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම් පිළිබඳව ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා යොදාගත් බවට විශ්වාස කළ හැකි මුද්‍රණ කඩදාසි ළඟ තබාගෙන සිටියේ යැයි කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා ලැබ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන රඳවාගෙන සිටි මවුලවිතුමකු 13 දක්වා රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට මීගමුව ප්‍රධාන මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් රජින්ද්‍රා ජයසූරිය මහත්මිය පෙරේදා (12දා) නියෝග කළාය. […]

by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy The Asianews.it The Sri Lankan Navy repaired the church after a suicide bomber killed 54 people, who are already saints, according to Archbishop Ranjth. The shrine is now open from 6 am to 8 pm. Colombo (AsiaNews) – The St Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade, near Colombo, one of the three churches […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Hisbullah at the PSC (pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja) Former Governor of the Eastern province, M. L. A. M. Hisbullah, yesterday, told the parliamentary select committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage that National Thowheed Jamaath leader Zahran Hashim, who masterminded the April 21 suicide bombings, had supported common […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Governor M. L.A.M. Hizbullah stated that he has no connection with Zahran Hashim – the alleged ringleader behind the Easter Sunday attacks – and that Zahran Hashim had only worked to ‘destroy’ him. Testifying before the Special Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to look into the Easter Sunday attacks he stated that he […]

Courtesy Adaderana Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration J.J. Rathnasiri says that he has not received any complaint or report stating that Muslim women were inconvenienced owing to the Circular issued on the dress code of public servants. The Circular in question had instructed the male public servants to wear the National dress or […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ සතොස ආයතනයේ කීර්තිනාමයට හානි කළේ තමා ද එසේ නැතහොත් සතොස සිය පාලනය යටතේ තිබියදී එහි ගබඩා තුළින් කුඩු තොග හමුවන තත්වයකට පත් කළ රිෂාඞ් බදියුදීන් හිටපු ඇමතිවරයාදැයි ප්‍රශ්න කරන ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා, තමාට පැවරූ නඩුවේදී රිෂාඞ්ගේ සියලු සතොස දූෂණ අක්‍රමිකතා පෙන්වා දෙන තෙක් එහි වාහන වහාබ්වාදී අන්තවාදීන් භාවිත කළ බව […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is protecting former Industry and Commerce Minister, Rishad Bathiudeen by not revealing information with regard to Sathosa vehicles being used for activities of the extremists, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa alleged today. Addressing a news briefing, he said the CID was deliberately […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today India has provided Sri Lanka phone numbers of five Sri Lankans who were suspected to be linked to Islamic State (IS). The Indian Express reported that India has also shared call logs and details of some phone calls which happened between some Indians and two Sri Lankan families who were linked to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Northwestern Province doctors of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) have decided to launch a protest campaign over several points including protesting Dr. Mohamed Shafi of the Kurunegala Hospital who is currently under arrest. The protest will be held before the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital this afternoon (12), stated GMOA Northwestern Province Coordinator Dr. […]

Yohan Perera  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Politics may jeopardise investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said last Saturday at a function held in Akmeemana. We see difference of opinion with regard to investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks. Politicians sabotaging important investigations seems to be part of the Sri […]

Courtesy The Sunday Times A former Sri Lanka diplomat and Foreign Secretary who allegedly pressurised the Defence Ministry to rush through the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) between Sri Lanka and the United States is now a US federal government employee. Prasad Kariyawasam is employed by the US federal government backed Agency for International […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Leader of the Muslim Congress MP Rauff Hakeem, said that he believes that MP Wimal Weerawansa is the only person who spoke about the people related to extremism knowing the truth, and he has done the correct thing, at the correct time. He said so while participating in the ‘Hard Talk’ programme […]

By Ranmini Gunasekara and Thameenah Razeek Courtesy Ceylon Today The tussle between the Executive and the Parliament should come to a stop, as this can lead to another incident such as that of 21/4, said Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Professor G.L Peiris yesterday (10). He said this at a Media conference held […]

Courtesy Adaderana There are doubts concerning the investigations into the terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday, says His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith. Addressing an event held at Thalgasyaya in Akmeemana, the Cardinal stated that these attacks were not a sudden series of events but the result of long-term planning. Murders happen but no actions are taken […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Special Investigative Board appointed to look into the terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday has submitted its final report to President Maithripala Sirisena this morning (10). The final report was handed over to the President at the Presidential Secretariat, the President’s Media Division (PMD) stated. A day following the attacks on April 21st, […]

Courtesy The Indian Express A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team was in Sri Lanka last week in connection with the agency’s probe into two IS modules in India that are suspected to have had connections in Sri Lanka. In the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings which killed more than 250 people, India has shared […]

Courtesy The Island The Sri Lankan security forces had turned from being hunters to fishermen during the last few years and the spirit of the security forces had been crushed since 2015, expert on terrorism Rohan Gunaratna told a meeting organised by the Mahinda Rajapaksa Centre yesterday in Colombo. Gunaratna said that the Easter Sunday […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis has resigned from his post with immediate effect. Mendis, Director of Sri Lanka’s Centre for National Intelligence under the Ministry of Defense, had served as DIG of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and was also head of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) from 2008 to 2009. […]