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Sunday in Sri Lanka will mark the third Easter since Islamic State-affiliated jihadists killed over 200 people on that holiday.

A protest is currently underway near the President’s house at Pengiriwatte Road, Mirihana against the current economic crisis. The protest started around 6 pm at the Jubilee Post with some hundreds protesting with torches against power cuts, police said, adding that the number of protesters grew as they announced that they would walk to the […]

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The author is a staunch advocate of police reforms and was one of those who contributed to the proposal put up by the OPA in 2001 that brought some police reforms in the form of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. In Retrospect By Dr. Kingsley Wickremasuriya Senior Deputy Inspector- General of Police (Retd) E-mail: […]

Economic issues like power and gas shortages continued to plague several of the six South Asian countries surrounding India.

… warns of possible fuel shortage By Sujeewa Thathsara The Ministry of Finance collected about Rs. 368 million afrom the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) as tax from the sale of fuel on a daily basis, Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila said yesterday, addressing the media in Colombo. The Minister added that the CPC made a […]

“… unacceptable to file cases against government servants alone as politicians were above them.” By Saman Indrajith Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara were acquitted and released yesterday in a case against them for their failure to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, despite having received warnings […]

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena endorsed five Bills on Thursday (17.) These bills were passed after debate recently. The Speaker endorsed the certificate on the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment), Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines, Judicature (Amendment), Civil Procedure Code (Amendment), Provincial Councils (Transfer of Stamp Duty) (Amendment) Bills which were taken into debate and passed on […]

By Ifham Nizam President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made an unannounced visit to the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority at Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 yesterday morning (18). The purpose of the President’s visit was to meet the officials of the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority and to make inquiries about the potential of utilising renewable sources, […]

By Dinasena Ratugamage Police have increased security at the Vallipuram Aalvar Kovil, Point Pedro, since an incident where five gold chains were snatched on Wednesday on the opening day of its annual festival, which attracts a large number of devotees. The robberies took place during the chariot festival. The Kovil festival will go on for […]