Local News

An interim order has been issued suspending the trial before Colombo High Court regarding the bribery case against Avant-Garde Chairman Nissanka Yapa Senadhipathi and...

Forty-seven Sri Lankans who were employed in Japan and Qatar have been repatriated early this morning (31). The expatriates from Qatar included 41 Sri Lankans...

The suspect who hurled cannabis and tobacco over the wall of Polonnaruwa Prison has been apprehended. The arrest was made by the Polonnaruwa Police personnel...

SLPP candidate and former MP Premalal Jayasekara and two others have been sentenced to death over the fatal shooting incident in Kahawatte during the...

Former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Shani Abeysekara has been arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD). The Police Spokesperson said Abeysekara was...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has recorded statements from two siblings of interdicted Superintendent (SP) of the Negombo Prison, Anuruddha Sampayo, who is still...

Police have seized a Hawk-eagle suspected to have been used by underworld criminal gang leader ‘Angoda Lokka’ for drug trafficking. Two suspects have also been...

There is an increased risk in the spread of Dengue due to the rainy season, health sectors warned on Thursday. “23 Dengue patients have died...

Prison officials of the Negombo Prison have seized more contraband thrown into the prison premises over its boundary walls. According to the Department of Prisons,...

Former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) SSP Shani Abeysekara has withdrawn his Fundamental Rights (FR) petition challenging the decision taken by the...