Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to appoint a committee, chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge, to investigate the allegations made by the UK’s Channel 4 regarding the Easter Sunday bombings. The President’s Media Division said that the government plans to establish a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the allegations made […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs & Constitutional Reforms Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has asserted that the government stands ready to conduct an international investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Despite his emphasis that the relevant investigation would be an international probe and not a domestic one, the Minister opined skepticism pertaining to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara has revealed that a new inquiry will be conducted into the recent allegations made by UK’s ‘Channel 4’ pertaining to the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Addressing Parliament this morning (05 Sep.), Nanayakkara stated that a special Parliamentary Committee will be appointed for this purpose, […]

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Courtesy Adaderana UK’s ‘Channel 4’ has announced that it will broadcast a new documentary, which will allegedly uncover shocking revelations on Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks, on Tuesday (Sep 05). Channel 4 claims that the new documentary titled Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches,” contains shocking new revelations about Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter bombings of […]

Lanka Lead News වයස අවුරුදු 18 – 20ත් අතර තරුණයන්ට පුහුණුවක් ලබාදී සිවුරු පොරවා දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් යොදාගැනීමේ සූක්ෂ්ම වැඩ පිළිවෙළක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කොට ඇති බවට රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධ අංශ තොරතුරු අනාවරණය කරගෙන ඇති බව ජාතික පුවත්පතක් වාර්තා කර තිබේ. එසේ මේ වන විට 500කට ආසන්න පිරිසත් එසේ පුහුණු කර භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා ලෙස යොදාගෙන තිබෙන බවට බුද්ධි […]

Courtesy WION STORY HIGHLIGHTS Constable R. M. D. Dayaratne was deployed to help protect the colonial-era residence on the day it was taken over by protesters who forced then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Instead, he sat at a grand piano in the compound and played a song to the crowd streaming through its rooms […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the suspect behind the torching of an army bus during a protest staged in front of former President Gotabaya Rajapakse’s residence in Pengiriwatte, Mirihana on 31 March 2022. The arrest was made on Friday night (01 Sep.) in the Mahiyangana area, based on a tip-off received […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Since Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malclom Ranjith had slammed the government authorities to name the group which supported the Easter Sunday bombers, Minister of Public security Tiran Allas invited him and the Church to go through the investigations and outline any shortcomings. We have already informed the Church authorities to go […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Local intelligence services have identified a Catholic was behind the unrest situation that has been created in Kurundi, State Minister of Defense Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said yesterday. He told parliament that international intelligence services had not issued any warnings to the government on possible racial and religious unrest in the country […]

Lanka Lead News යම් අයෙකු නීතිය අතට ගෙන ක්‍රියා කරන්නේ නම් හෝ එවැනි තත්ත්වයක් ඇති කිරීම සඳහා අනුබල දෙන්නේ නම් එවැනි ඕනෑම පුද්ගලයෙකුට හෝ සංවිධානයකට එරෙහිව තරාතිරම නොබලා නීතිය දැඩිව ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන බව මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා පවසයි. මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් මේ බව සඳහන් කර ඇත. එම […]

Courtesy The Telegraph Online President appoints retired Major General-led team to shape contemporary security policies Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremeshinghe President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday highlighted the need for a comprehensive review of Sri Lanka’s national security strategy to chart a course devoid of entanglement in the emerging international rivalries and maintain neutrality in the […]

JYOTI MALHOTRA Courtesy The Print A complete lack of trust between the Sinhala elite and Tamil minority is apparent across Sri Lanka, which seems unable to even begin laying some of its ghosts to rest. Forty years ago this July, back in 1983, Sri Lanka was devastated by an anti-Tamil pogrom in which several hundred people […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A tense situation arose when a group led by Tamil National People’s Front leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam entered the Kurundi temple and conducted a Pongal Pooja, Mullaitivu police said. Police said however the situation was brought under control. According to a court order obtained from the Mullaitivu Court, a group, including MP […]

සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ  මාධ්‍ය කාර්යාලය ජය මාවත, කටුබැද්ද, මොරටුව සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ 10 වන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ ජනරාල් ලෙස පත්වීම් ලැබූ එයාර් වයිස් මාර්ෂල් ආර්එස් බියන්විල වීඑස්වී, යූඑස්පී, එම්බීඒ (එක්සත් රාජධානිය), එන්ඩීසී (ඉන්දියාව), පීඑස්සී ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරි 2023 අගෝස්තු මස 16 වන දින සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තු මූලස්ථාන පරිශ්‍රයේදී සුභ මොහොතින් නව තනතුරේ රාජකාරී භාර ගන්නා ලදි.            […]

MOD  Media Centre The landscape of human trafficking is evolving, transforming into a ruthless business that preys on the vulnerable and exploits their desperation. This dark reality presents a complex challenge that threatens not just individual lives but our national security as well, stressed Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne delivering the keynote address at the […]

ADITYA GOWDARA SHIVAMURTHY Courtesy ORF Online As China’s rise threatens the democratic rules, values, and institutions that have shaped the post-war world order, the United States (US) is increasing its outreach in the Indo-Pacific region. Distant South Asian island nations such as Sri Lanka are today receiving greater attention from the US. This brief seeks […]

By: EU Observer As Macron pivots to the BRICS and things fall apart in West Africa, Europe is preparing to boost its naval presence in the north west Indian Ocean “to uphold freedom of navigation” in the world’s trade jugular. Modelled on existing EU anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Guinea and Horn of Africa […]

MOD  Media Centre State Minster of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said that Sri Lanka practices a zero tolerance for terrorism and acts of any nature that supports terrorist activities will be strictly dealt with. Minister Tennakoon made these remarks when he met the Turkish Defence Minister Yaser Guler during his visit to Turkey. The […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් උතුරේ සිටින අන්තවාදී පිරිස් විසින් මුලතිව් කුරුන්දි විහාරයෙන් තමන් වහන්සේව පන්නා දමා එහි අයිතිය ලබා ගැනීමට උත්සහ දරමින් සිටින බවට කුරුන්දි විහාරාධිපති උතුරු පළාතේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්‍ය ගල්ගමුවේ ශාන්තබෝධි හිමියන් පවසති. එම අන්තවාදී පිරිස් තමන් වහන්සේට නින්දා අපහාස සිදු කරමින් ජීවිත තර්ජන එල්ල කරමින් සිටින බවට ශාන්තබෝධී හිමියන් සඳහන් කරති. […]

By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today   The successful campaign by the LTTE ideologists to promote a false narrative in the West must not be ignored. This spells a serious  issue for Sri Lanka as this narrative is peddled by some of the prominent politicians in the West.  The LTTE propaganda – A time bomb It […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Garnier Francis Analysis of telephone data revealed that Swiss embassy employee Garnier Banister Francis had been in touch with Chief Inspector Nishantha Silva before the latter left for Switzerland. She had also been in touch with several others. Had she really desired to migrate to Switzerland with her family, […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Ex-NPC member T. Raviharan of TNA greets HC Walsh Jawaharlal Nehru University facilitates talk on ‘structural genocide’ SLPP MP retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday (24) accused Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh of backing those propagating separatist sentiments. The former Public Security Minister, who is also the Chairman of the […]

Courtesy WION The Sri Lankan government tightened security on Sunday (July 23) as activists in the capital city of Colombo commemorated those killed during the 1983 anti-Tamil riots which fuelled a deadly civil war for six days (July 25-30). According to a report by the news agency AFP, authorities deployed armed troops that outnumbered the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The former LTTE members, who were found guilty of the bomb attack on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) on 31 January 1996 which killed 91 individuals, have been granted presidential pardon. Accordingly, former LTTE member Selliah Navaratnam who had been sentenced to 200 years in prison and S. Shanmugarajah who was […]

දිනසේන රතුගමගේ මුලතිව් කොක්කුතුඩුවායි සමූහ මිනී වලේ වළ දමා ඇත්තේ එල්.ටී.ටී. ඊ. වධකාගාරයකින් මරා දමන ලද කොටි සෙබළියන් පිරිසකගේ මළ සිරුරු බවට තොරතුරු අනාවරණය වී තිබේ.මෙම සමූහ මිනී වලේ කැණීම් කටයුතු සිදු කරගෙන යන පිරිසට සමූහ මිනී වලේ තිබී බෝම්බ හා පතරොම් කීපයක් 8 දා හමු වී ඇත.යුද්ධයේ අවසන් කාලයට ඉතා ආසන්න කාලයේ මෙම සමූහ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed Public Security Minister Tiran Alles to take the final decision on the appointment of the new IGP, informed sources said. Accordingly, the Minister has been instructed to decide whether to appoint an acting IGP or to grant another extension for former IGP C.D. Wickramaratne. Sources further […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින රාත්‍රීයේ ආරක්ෂාවට සිටි පොලිස් සැරයන්වරයා පරුෂ වචනයෙන් බැන වදිමින් තමන්ට වෙඩි තියන්නට සුදානම්වු බවත් පන්සලේ සිටි බල්ලා නිසා දිවි ගලවා ගත් බවත් මඩකලපුව මංගලාරාමාධිපති අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියෝ පැවසුහ. ඒ සම්බන්ධව වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් උන්වහස්සේ මෙසේද පැවසූහ.මම මේ දිනවල ඉන්නේ කෙවිලියාමඩුව පන්සල්ගල අභිනවාරාම පුදබිමේ. මිට මාස ගණනකට පෙර මට කිසියම් පුදගලයෙක් වෙඩි තැබිම […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Kandy Mr President and the Minister in charge of Internal Security, please see the following incident where an ethnic extremist  politician in the hill country, who is also not a legitimate Bhummiputra of this Island nation has taken the law into his hand and intimidated and obstructed the police officers who were […]

Courtesy Adaderana Instructions have been issued to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other senior police officers to take immediate and stern legal action against violent crimes committed in both the Western and Southern provinces.  The relevant directive was issued by Public Security Minister Tiran Alles, during a special discussion with high-ranking police officers […]