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Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers have approved President Maithripala Sirisena’s proposal to grant a one-year service extension to the Commandant of the Special Task Force (STF) Senior DIG M.R. Latiff, who was set to retire today (5). Senior DIG Latiff was expected to retire today after completing 40 years of service in Sri Lanka’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana Notorious Sri Lankan underworld kingpin ‘Makandure Madush’, several other prominent underworld figures and a popular Sri Lankan singer are among 25 suspects arrested during a joint operation in Dubai, sources said. The suspects were reportedly arrested at a hotel in Dubai in a joint operations carried out by law enforcement officers from both […]

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ඇමෙරිකා යුද නැව්වලට ත්‍රිකුණාමලය වරාය ලබා දීම මේ රටේ ඉඩම් ඇතුළු ස්වෛරීත්වය අහිමි කිරීම බෙදුම්වාදී න්‍යාය පත්‍රයේ තවත් අවස්ථාවක් යැයි වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. ඔහු එම අදහස් පළ කළේ ඊයේ (31දා) ජාතික සමතා බලවේගය රාජගිරියේදී පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට සහභාගි වෙමින්ය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා මෙසේද පැවැසීය. ඇමෙරිකාවේ කඳවුරු මේ […]

Owen Bowcott and Diane Taylor Courtesy The Guardian Priyanka Fernando conviction appeared to trigger stream of diplomatic exchanges  The chief magistrate said there had been a catalogue of disappointing issues with the case. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA An arrest warrant for a former Sri Lankan military attache, convicted of public order offences after making cut-throat gestures at protesters, has […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says the Department of National Archives has provided copies of valuable documents to foreign countries without any knowledge of the state. The President made these remarks at the Matara district convention of drug prevention program held at Sanath Jayasuriya Stadium in Matara today (30th), stated President’s Media Division. President Sirisena […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The UK is providing documentation to assist the Westminster Magistrate’s Court which has sought clarification of Brigadier Priyanka Fernando’s diplomatic status in the UK, the British High Commission said. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which is not a party to these legal proceedings, have been contacted by the Westminster Magistrate’s […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 24 (newsin.asia): In July 2017 the Sri Lankan government renewed, for another ten years, the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the United States Department of Defense. ACSA allows the exchange of supply and services, training of staff and humanitarian aid in disaster situations between the two countries. In a proposal to […]

සමන් ගමගේ බල්ලගේ වැඬේ බූරුවා කරනවා යැයි ලෙසින් වූ වටිනා උපමා කතාවක් අපේ ජනවහරේ තිබේ. යමෙකු කළ යුතු සහ එසේ කරන්නට හැකියාව ඇති කාර්යයක් කිසිදු වගකීමක් සහ හැකියාවක් නැති තවෙකකු ඉදිරිපත්වී කරන්නට යන කල සහ වගකීම් විරහිතව වහසිබස් ප‍්‍රකාශ කරනවිට අපේ ජනතාව අතීතයේ මෙන්ම අදත් මේ කතාව සිහිපත් කළේ උපහාසය මුසු පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුවය.    ශී‍්‍ර […]

1971 වසරේදී තමන් පොලිසියෙන් වෙඩි තබා මරා දැමීමට නියම කරන ලද්දෙක් බව ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. චේගුවේරා කල්ලියේ සාමාජිකයන් යයි තමන් අත්අඩංගුව ගෙන දැඩි ලෙස වද දුන් බවත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා කීය. පසුව පොලොන්නරුවේ කනත්තට ගෙන ගොස් වෙඩි තබා මරා දැමීමට ඔන්න මෙන්න තිබියදී ඉෂ්ඨ දේවතාවන් විසින් තමන් බේරාගත්තේ යයිද ජනාධිපතිවරයා සදහන් කලේය. කොළඹදී පැවති උත්සව […]

By Manolo B. Jara Courtesy Gulf Today MANILA: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday invited Philippine drug war experts to visit his country and share their experiences with their counterparts apparently to help them in their own campaign against drugs. I would like to invite some experts from your side to visit Sri Lanka when […]

Courtesy Morning Star Activists warn the true nature of the Thatcher government’s collusion with Sri Lanka may never be known RITAIN’S Foreign Office is being accused of shredding history” after it admitted to destroying nearly 400 diplomatic files from the start of a Tamil uprising in Sri Lanka. Margaret Thatcher’s government armed Sri Lankan forces […]

පුබුදු වික්‍රමතිලක උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම සැඟවී සිටි දෙමළ පාතාලය යළි අළු ගසමින් නැඟිටින්නට වූයේ මෑතක සිටය. දෙමළ පාතාලයේ මෙවර ඉලක්කය කාගේත් ඇස් අරවන ප්‍රහාරයක් වූයේය. වත්තල, හේකිත්ත පාරේදී ඉකුත් ඉරිදා (13දා) චිකාගෝ ක්‍රමයට දෙනෝදාහක් බලා සිටියදීම ප්‍රහාරයක් මෙහෙයවන්නේ කොටි සංවිධානයේ සිටි වෙඩික්කරුවන්ගේ මෙහෙයවීමෙනි ප්‍රහාරයෙන් සුදු පැහැති වැගන් ආර් රථයේ ආ කුඩු සෙල්විගේ පවුලේ අයකුගෙන් දෙදෙනකු එතැනම මියැදී […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 15, 2019, 9:41 pm Sri Lanka is under fire for naming Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva as the Chief of Staff of the Army. Various interested parties stepped up attacks on Sri Lanka in the wake of the Gajaba veteran, the wartime General Officer Commanding (GoC) of the 58 Division, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara has been summoned to the Government Analyst’s Department with regard to the alleged VIP assassination plan. Accordingly, IGP Jayasundara has been informed to be present at the department on Monday (Jan 14) at 9.30 am. Reportedly, this is the first time that the Inspector General of Police […]

By Azzam Ameen BBC Sinhala, Colombo Image copyrightVAVUNIYA POLICEImage captionThe man in this clip and his friend who filmed it have been released on bail Sri Lankan police have arrested two people who posted a Facebook video showing one of them pretending to give a bribe to a traffic police cutout. In the footage, a motorcyclist […]

Courtesy  scroll.in The Financial Action Task Force said the Bahamas, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Serbia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and Yemen also need to do more. The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said inter-governmental body Financial Action Task Force has called on its members to take steps to protect the financial system from threats emanating from the Democratic […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna  Courtesy Adaderana Namal Kumara, the Director Operations of the Anti Corruption Force, says that the investigations regarding the information he revealed on the VIP assassination plot are at a weak status. According to him, information on the relevant investigations has been released to the media by some individual. He mentioned these addressing a media […]

By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The audio clips recovered from Namal Kumara’s mobile phone have been submitted to the court by the CID team that returned from Hong Kong, the Police Spokesperson stated. A team consisting of two officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and one official from the Government Analyst’s Department that had left for […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director (Operations) of the Anti-Corruption Force Namal Kumara has revealed another voice clip to the media today (20). Convening a press conference in Mahawewa area, he pointed out that following the submission of resignation letter of Mahinda Rajapaksa from the premiership MP Nalin Bandara had alleged that the VIP assassination plot was feigned. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 4, 2018, 11:38 pm The rehabilitated ex-LTTE cadres, arrested in connection with last Friday’s killing of two police constables at Vavunativu, Batticaloa, would be charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), a senior police officer said yesterday. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), investigating the incident, would have to […]

by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island December 1, 2018, 8:41 pm At this moment, we are in the midst of a political crisis that was sparked off at least in part by a police officer. DIG Nalaka Silva is now in remand on suspicion of having being involved in a plot to assassinate President Maithripala […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne has been remanded unitl December 05 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. The top-ranking military officer appeared before court Wednesday after weeks evading arrest for allegedly protecting the chief suspect in the high-profile murder of 11 youths in 2008 and 2009. In a dramatic […]

 lanka C news ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සහ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඝාතනය කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්‍රණයට හිටපු ඇමැති රංජිත් මද්දුමබණ්ඩාර මහතා ද සම්බන්ධ බව දූෂණ විරෝධී බලකායේ කියාසිටි. එම සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ නාමල් කුමාර මහතා මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් මේ බව කියා සිටියේ එය තහවුරු කළ හැකි හඬ පට කිහිපයක් ද මාධ්‍ය වෙත මුදා හරිමිනි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Three suspects, who were remanded in connection with the shooting incident in Nallur targeting Jaffna District Court Judge M. Illanchelian, have been granted bail. They were granted bail by Jaffna High Court Judge Annalingam Premachandran yesterday (19) under strict bail conditions. Police Sergeant Sarath Hemachandra who was a personal protection officer to […]

Courtesy Adaderana President states that he was not informed on the protest by the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organization and he expresses his regrets regarding the inconveniences caused to the monks. A protest by BBS was held this afternoon (19) in front of the Presidential Secretariat. They had arrived at the Presidential Secretariat to handover […]

By Kelum Bandara, Sandun A Jayasekera and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The conduct of some parliamentarians stooped down to such low levels today that, for the first time in history, there were allegations that some UNP MPs smuggled in sharp knives into the Chamber of the House for any untoward action. The photos went […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government yesterday said it had lodged a complaint with the police over UNP MPs Ranjan Ramanayake and Palitha Thewarapperuma who had allegedly threatened government MPs in Parliament with a knife. Govt. MP Indika Anuruddha said a complaint has been lodged with the police post at the Parliamentary complex. Both […]

 lanka C news හිටපු අගමැති වත්මන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට එරෙහිව පොලිස්පතිවරයා වෙත පැමිණිල්ලක් බාර දී තිබේ. ඔහුට එල්ල වී ඇති චෝදනාව වන්නේ අගමැති ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කර තිබියදීත් අගමැති නිල නිවාසය බලහත්කාරයෙන් අල්ලාගෙන රාජ්‍ය දේපල අවභාවිත කරන බවටයි. මෙම පැමිණිල්ල බාර දී ඇත්තේ අමාත්‍ය් ලේකම්වරුන්ගේ සංගමය විසිනි. රාජ්‍ය දේපල අවභාවිතය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොදු දේපල පනත […]

මෙරට තුල සාමය ආරක්‍ෂා කර දෙන්නැයි හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් විදේශීය සාම සාධක හමුදාවන්ට පැමිණෙන්නැයි ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රි දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. මෙය ඉතා අභාග්‍ය සම්පන්න ප‍්‍රකාශයක් යයිද ඔහු කියා සිටී. රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් බටහිර තානාපතිවරුන්ට ලියනලද ලිපිය පහත දැක්වේ