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LNP - Over 8,000 child-related complaints reported: NCPA Crime

LNP - Over 8,000 child-related complaints reported: NCPA

The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) said that over 8,000 complaints related to children have been reported from across the country. NCPA official…

04 Oct 2025
LNP - Court grants permission to detain and question ‘Beliatte Sana’ Crime

LNP - Court grants permission to detain and question ‘Beliatte Sana’

The Tangalle Magistrate’s Court has granted permission for police to detain and interrogate Sanath Weerasinghe, also known as ‘Beliatta Sanaa,’ who was…

03 Oct 2025
LNP - JKCG seeks court relief as BYD EV shipments remain detained by customs Crime

LNP - JKCG seeks court relief as BYD EV shipments remain detained by customs

John Keells CG Auto (JKCG), the authorized distributor of BYD electric vehicles (EVs) in Sri Lanka, issued a fresh  statement late evening regarding the…

01 Oct 2025
LNP - Fuel prices reduced Crime

LNP - Fuel prices reduced

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (Ceypetco) has announced a revision of fuel prices effective from midnight today (30). According to the announcement, the…

01 Oct 2025
LNP - Appeals court issues directive on vehicles detained by Sri Lanka Customs Crime

LNP - Appeals court issues directive on vehicles detained by Sri Lanka Customs

The Court of Appeal today (30) ordered Sri Lanka Customs to investigate and report to court by October 10, whether the vehicles currently being detained by…

30 Sep 2025
LNP - Institutional corruption persists even under new Govt- key U.S. report Crime

LNP - Institutional corruption persists even under new Govt- key U.S. report

Institutional corruption persists, particularly within sectors protected by entrenched vested interests, even under the current government, though high-level…

30 Sep 2025
LNP - Three Sri Lankans involved in crimes arrested in Bengaluru Crime

LNP - Three Sri Lankans involved in crimes arrested in Bengaluru

Three Sri Lankans who were allegedly involved in crimes have been arrested by the Central Crime Branch of Bengaluru. The three Sri Lankans were allegedly…

30 Sep 2025
LNP - Temporary Driver’s licences now issued from Nugegoda Medical Institute Crime

LNP - Temporary Driver’s licences now issued from Nugegoda Medical Institute

The temporary driver’s licence issued during the renewal process will now be provided by the National Transport Medical Institute in Nugegoda, effective today…

30 Sep 2025
LNP - CAA raids over 100 shops for selling rice above control price Crime

LNP - CAA raids over 100 shops for selling rice above control price

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has raided a total of 105 shops over the past two weeks for selling rice above the government-imposed control price. The…

29 Sep 2025
LNP - Two suspects arrested over Rs. 6 mln gold jewelry heist Crime

LNP - Two suspects arrested over Rs. 6 mln gold jewelry heist

Two suspects have been arrested in Kiribathgoda in connection with the investigation into the robbery of gold jewelry worth Rs. 6 million after assaulting a…

28 Sep 2025
LNP - Former army officials to be arrested over Easter Sunday attacks: President Crime

LNP - Former army officials to be arrested over Easter Sunday attacks: President

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks are continuing and advancing and that one or two former…

27 Sep 2025
LNP - Two persons linked to yesterday’s Tangalle drugs seizure arrested Crime

LNP - Two persons linked to yesterday’s Tangalle drugs seizure arrested

Police have arrested two sons of an individual who died after being hospitalised from a house in Seenimodara, Tangalle, yesterday (22), where a large haul of…

23 Sep 2025
LNP - Three Pakistanis arrested for robbing driver using chemical-laced currency note in Peradeniya Crime

LNP - Three Pakistanis arrested for robbing driver using chemical-laced currency note in Peradeniya

In what appeared to be a rare tactic employed in robberies, three Pakistani nationals have been arrested for allegedly robbing a lorry driver of Rs.90,000…

23 Sep 2025
LNP - Immigration Controller Harsha Ilukpitiya sentenced to two years in prison for contempt of court Crime

LNP - Immigration Controller Harsha Ilukpitiya sentenced to two years in prison for contempt of court

The Supreme Court today (23) sentenced Harsha Ilukpitiya, the Controller General of Immigration and Emigration, to two years of imprisonment after being found…

23 Sep 2025
LNP - Another lorry with 200kg of substances believed to be ‘Ice’ and heroin found in Tangalle Crime

LNP - Another lorry with 200kg of substances believed to be ‘Ice’ and heroin found in Tangalle

A large stock of narcotics, including over 200 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine or commonly known as ‘Ice’ and eroin, has been discovered in Seenimodara,…

22 Sep 2025
LNP - Kush and Hashish worth over Rs. 16.8M found in bathroom at BIA Crime

LNP - Kush and Hashish worth over Rs. 16.8M found in bathroom at BIA

A large consignment of narcotics estimated to be worth approximately Rs. 16.84 million was discovered today (20) in the men’s bathroom of the arrivals terminal…

21 Sep 2025
LNP - All passenger transport drivers required to obtain ‘PT License’ by December 31 – Transport Minister Crime

LNP - All passenger transport drivers required to obtain ‘PT License’ by December 31 – Transport Minister

Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation Bimal Rathnayake has stated that it is mandatory to all drivers engaged in passenger transport to…

21 Sep 2025
LNP  -  SLAF intelligence officer arrested over Rs. 20M gold smuggling attempt at BIA Crime

LNP - SLAF intelligence officer arrested over Rs. 20M gold smuggling attempt at BIA

In a major enforcement success, the Narcotics Control Unit of Sri Lanka Customs apprehended an intelligence officer of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) at…

19 Sep 2025
LNP - Gunman and two suspects arrested in murder of Dan Priyasad Crime

LNP - Gunman and two suspects arrested in murder of Dan Priyasad

The alleged shooter in the murder of political activist Dan Priyasad was arrested last night, along with two others—including a woman—in Ranwala town, Kegalle,…

19 Sep 2025
LNP - Court orders PNB Director to appear before court over Backhoe Saman’s wife’s case Crime

LNP - Court orders PNB Director to appear before court over Backhoe Saman’s wife’s case

Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama ordered the Director of the Police Narcotics Bureau to personally appear before court on September 25 and present…

18 Sep 2025
LNP - Businessman arrested for selling foreign cigarettes to schoolchildren Crime

LNP - Businessman arrested for selling foreign cigarettes to schoolchildren

A businessman has been arrested by the police on suspicion of selling illegally imported cigarettes to schoolchildren in the Thanamalwila area. It has been…

18 Sep 2025
LNP - CAA raids traders selling rice above controlled prices; Rs. 95 million in fines imposed Crime

LNP - CAA raids traders selling rice above controlled prices; Rs. 95 million in fines imposed

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has intensified raids across the country to crack down on traders selling rice at prices higher than the government’s…

17 Sep 2025
LNP - Sampath Manamperi surrenders to court Crime

LNP - Sampath Manamperi surrenders to court

Sampath Manamperi, accused of concealing two containers of raw materials allegedly used in the production of the drug “Ice” and reportedly belonging to…

17 Sep 2025
LNP  - Court grants CID permission to probe bank accounts of ‘Panadura Nilanga’ Crime

LNP - Court grants CID permission to probe bank accounts of ‘Panadura Nilanga’

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has granted permission to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to obtain reports on the bank accounts of alleged…

17 Sep 2025