The Sectoral Oversight Committee on Governance, Justice and Civil Protection has been told that the Prisons Department was not in a position to provide rehabilitation opportunities to all inmates ...

“12-judge bench should hear petitions” The Joint Opposition yesterday (10) reiterated that the Mahanayake Theras of the Malwatte, Asgiriya, Amarapura... Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith ...

An unidentified gunman yesterday (10) shot dead a close relative of Kanjipani Imran in the Kotahena police area. Police said that the killing took place near a bridge at Maligawatta. The victim was ...

By A.J.A.Abeynayake ✍️ Kaduwela Magistrate Aruna Indrajith Buddhadasa yesterday (10) ordered two personnel sureties of 2 mn each and granted SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam bail but imposed ...

The Tamil National Council (TNC), led by MP Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, has formally appealed to India to intervene in securing a permanent political solution for Tamils, urging New Delhi to pressure ...

The arrest of a person by a joint Navy and Police Special Task Force (STF) search on Sunday (09) led to the detection of 7,000 foreign cigarettes at Mullipuram, Puttalam. The operation was conducted ...

Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s #1 connectivity provider, supported the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Esala Perahera 2026, marking its 21st year of patronage and continuing its longstanding commitment to ...

Air Force tip-off leads to wildlife sting; two suspects remanded By Ifham Nizam ✍️ A lucrative black market, built on a myth, was exposed in Kahatagasdigiliya when Wildlife officers, acting on ...

A powerful earthquake has ro ked Colombia  and neighbouring countries, with the epicentre 400km (250 miles) west of the capital of Bogota. Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella says that the ...

By Norman Palihawadane The government had allocated funds to import body scanners for 33 prisons, involving visual inspection of prisoners’ anal areas, to end the practice of strip searches, Justice ...

Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall on China’s eastern coast, bringing torrential rain and hurricane-force winds with more than one million people evacuated. Dolphin, the most powerful tropical cyclone ...

Capt. G A Fernando Former President, Aircraft Owners and Operators Association of Sri Lanka. President, Colombo Flying Club, Sri Lanka. Representative for ‘Aviation’ in the Organisation of ...