Category: Local News

The United National Party (UNP) leadership should be changed before the next presidential election, Non-Cabinet Minister Ajith P. Perera said yesterday.

Marking Father’s Day tomorrow, 16th June, the United Nations Children’s Fund has temporarily removed the image of the parent from its iconic 70 year old ‘parent and child’ logo

Indian police said they have arrested a Facebook friend of the suspected mastermind of the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka for spreading Islamic State group ideology on social media to recruit young people to participate in a terrorist attack in southern India.

Police Media Spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekara today said that 102 suspects have been arrested by the police over the Easter Sunday attacks.

Australia has relaxed it’s travel advisory for Sri Lanka. The latest advisory urges Australians to ‘exercise a high degree of caution’.

Five suspects including Mohamed Milhan, an ardent member of the terrorist group that carried out the carnage of Easter Sunday, have been arrested in Dubai and brought back to Sri Lanka by the CID this morning, Police Media Spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekara said.

A top US government official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka in the analysis of evidence and phone details in connection with the serial bombings on Easter Sunday.

Former Governor of the Eastern province, M. L. A. M. Hisbullah, yesterday, told the parliamentary select committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage that National Thowheed Jamaath leader Zahran Hashim, who masterminded the April 21 suicide bombings, had supported common candidate Maithripala Sirisena, at the 2015 presidential election.

Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian Religious Affairs Minister John Amaratunga yesterday urged the industry stakeholders to actively look at introducing activities to spice up the nightlife for tourists, so that more would be keen on visiting the country.

A 21-year-old university female student was admitted to the Ragama Hospital after being stabbed by her boyfriend outside the Kelaniya University this morning, police said.

Major General Ruwan Kulatunga has been appointed as the new Chief of National Intelligence, stated the Sri Lanka Army Spokesperson.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left for Singapore yesterday on a three-day visit. He is scheduled to return on Friday.

NEW DELHI – Indian police raided seven locations in Coimbatore on Wednesday in pursuit of a suspected Islamic State cell with links to the suicide bombers who killed over 250 people in Sri Lanka in April, officials said.

A gangster identified as ‘Heenatiyana Sanka’, the main suspect of killing Krishantha Ajith Kumara alias Minuwangoda Kalu Ajith, was arrested by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) today.

The Supreme Court today ordered the Attorney General to file charges against State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake over allegations of contempt of court, within a month.

Former Minister Rauff Hakeem yesterday said that Muslim Parliamentarians will comply with the decisions that are taken by the Maha Sangha.