Four killed, eight injured in Kudawella Fishery Harbour shooting

2018-12-26   |   Crime

At least four people were killed and eight injured when two gunmen opened fire inside the Kudawella Fishery Harbour in Tangalle last morning, police s...

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Saga of how a high office went a-begging!

2018-12-20   |   Crime

The origin of this story has been traced to a very high place in the country.   According to the story, a well- known political heavyweight had ...

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SC issues notices on Ranjan

2018-12-04   |   Crime

The Supreme Court today issued notices on UNP Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake and the Attorney General to appear in court on December 7 over an inci...

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Will appeal in Supreme Court: MR

2018-12-04   |   Crime

Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said that they do not agree with the interim order which was issued by Court of Appeal today and that they w...

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Police seek help to locate ‘Koombiyo’ Scriptwriter

2018-12-04   |   Crime

The Police today released a photograph of 40-year-old Damitha Sagara Chandrasiri, the missing editor and scriptwriter of the ‘Koombiyo’ teledrama ...

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Drive For Justice

2018-12-02   |   Crime

‘Yukthiye Yaathrawa’ (Drive for Justice), a vehicle parade, organized by the UNP, calling to restore democracy, was launched by UNP leader Ranil W...

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Govt. attempts to counter curtailment of funds to PM's office

2018-11-27   |   Crime

Ahead of another parliamentary vote to curtail expenditure to the Office of Prime Minister, the government is making fresh efforts to muster the simpl...

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122 MPs challenge MR in court

2018-11-25   |   Crime

As many as 122 Sri Lankan lawmakers on Friday challenged former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the court of appeal, asking on whose authority he occup...

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Rajapaksa administration owes SriLankan Rs.122mn: Officer

2018-11-23   |   Crime

A total of Rs.122.3 million is owed to SriLankan by the Presidential Secretariat, the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Commonwealth Games Committee fo...

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President Can't Act like Alice in Wonderland"- Counsel tell SC

2018-11-13   |   Crime

Challenging all arguments in favour of the dissolution of Parliament, the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday heard ten petitions arguing that President Mait...

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Never neglect your studies Herath’s advice to youngsters

2018-11-04   |   Crime

Veteran Rangana Herath will bring the curtains down on his excellent cricket career next week in Galle with Sri Lanka taking on England in the first m...

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Unions call for Arjuna’s arrest, threaten to suspend fuel distribution One killed, two injured in attack on protesters

2018-10-29   |   Crime

A 34-year-old man, who was shot yesterday by a security guard of former Minister of Petroleum Resources Development, Arjuna Ranatunga, had succumbed t...

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Ninety five percent of Regional Plantation Companies reportedly running at a loss

2018-10-26   |   Crime

At the head table, chairman PA Sunil Poholiyadde, chairman EFC Roshan Rajadurai, Sec. Gen. PA Lalith Obeysekera, Dir. Gen. EFC Kanishka Weerasinghe, D...

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Truth and Justice Commission to be established early next year

2018-10-24   |   Crime

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that a Truth and Justice Commission will be established early next year, as a follow up to the Missing Person...

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Angunukolapelessa prison inmates call off protest

2018-10-23   |   Crime

The protest launched by the inmates of Angunukolapelessa Prison has been called off, said Ada Derana reporter. The inmates have agreed to come down...

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CID arrests SLC Chief Financial Officer

2018-10-23   |   Crime

Sri Lanka Cricket's (SLC) Chief Financial Officer Wimal Nandika Dissanayake was arrested by the CID today in connection with an alleged financial frau...

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Modi’s Office on assassination plot allegation

2018-10-19   |   Crime

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Office yesterday said President Maithripala Sirisena had, in a telephone conversation with the Indian leader, ...

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Rajitha refutes media reports on RAW plot

2018-10-18   |   Crime

Co-Cabinet spokesperson Minister Rajitha Senaratne refuted media reports that stated that President Maithripala Sirisena had informed Cabinet that the...

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Wiggy wants TNA vote tied to release of LTTE suspects in custody Budget 2019

2018-10-15   |   Crime

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said on Friday said that he had requested the TNA leaders to vote against the budget in Parliament i...

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Justice Nalin Perera likely to be CJ

2018-10-12   |   Crime

Supreme Court Judge Justice Nalin Perera has been nominated by President Maithripala Sirisena to be appointed as the next Chief Justice of Sri Lanka. ...

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Fuel prices to increase with pricing formula

2018-10-11   |   Crime

In accordance with the pricing formula activated by the Ministry of Finance, there is the possibility of the price of fuel being increased from today ...

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Naming Ravi as a suspect in CID investigation ruled unlawful

2018-10-09   |   Crime

Colombo Chief Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake today (09) ruled that, at the moment it is illegal to name MP Ravi Karunanayake as a suspect in the investi...

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CD handed over to court by CID didn't contain Bond report

2018-10-05   |   Crime

The CD which was supposed to carry recordings of Former Minister, MP Ravi Karunanayake giving a statement to the CID the investigations which was prod...

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Mangala claims Ranil saved Mahinda from becoming an international criminal

2018-10-01   |   Crime

Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday stated that the current government salvaged Sri Lanka from its status as a drop of blood...

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Knowing your blood report

2018-09-27   |   Crime

Blood tests have become such an integral part of disease diagnosis and treatment process that when you go to a doctor, more often than not, you are...

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