Category: Local News

Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that the Cabinet has decided to introduce three amendments to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.

Notorious underworld figure and drug kingpin ‘Makandure Madush’ has been shot dead in a crossfire between police and other suspected underworld figures at Maligawatte Housing Complex.

MP Rishad Bathiudeen who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been ordered to be remanded by the Fort Magistrate’s Court.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 19 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

The bodies of three children of the same family have been recovered from an irrigation well at Ranwediyawa in Galewela, the Police said.

Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, giving evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Political Victimisation, said he accepts that according to the Police Ordinance, the gazette notification establishing the Police Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) was not legal.

Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake yesterday said the authorities had effectively curbed the coronavirus crisis and the people should extend their fullest cooperation to the government.

MP Rishad Bathiudeen has been arrested by the CID from an apartment at Ebenezer Place, Dehiwala this morning, Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 18 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Everything has been done to protect Sri Lankans from COVID-19. Issuing the Gazette notification is a part of this process, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said.

As the push against the eruption of the fresh COVID-19 wave continued, Army Commander Shavendra Silva said a curfew will be imposed in areas which pose a serious threat.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) yesterday extended the search for All Ceylon Makkal Congress leader and opposition Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen to the Eastern Province, after they failed to arrest him for the fourth consecutive day.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 17 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Kamal Gunaratne urged the public to give the law enforcement officers time for the arrest of MP Rishad Bathiudeen, assuring that he would be arrested very soon.

A consignment of heroin weighing nearly 10kg worth Rs.1 billion has been seized by the Colombo Crimes Division from Kotikawatta.

The National Thowheed Jama’ath (NTJ) Leader Zaharan Hashim- led group had initially planned to carry out the bombings on Easter Sunday, with the involvement of 20 suicide bombers targeting crowded places including hospitals.