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By Prof. Wimal Dissanayake The Venerable Tirikiunamale Ananda Maha Nayaka Thera has written a reverential commemorative poem, titled Guru Dev Samara, celebrating the life and times of his teacher the Reverend Ampitiye Rahula Maha Thera. It is a poem that deserves the critical attention of discerning readers primarily because of the dexterity with which the author has handled his chosen poetic meter and commanded it to perform a number of functions related to the vitality of the poetic text Guru Dev Samara consists of 130 stanzas written in conformity to the drutha vilambitha meter. As I wil...

Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 09:13 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 20, Colombo: Former Director of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of Police Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Nalaka de Silva told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday attack that a political conspiracy had been hatched against him. Testifying before the Commission for the last time on Friday, the suspended officer revealed this when Attorney-at-Law Madhu Jayatilleke, who appeared for DIG Nilantha Jayawardena, the former Director of the State Intelligence Service, cross-examine...

Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 12:37 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 18, Colombo: A forensic analysis conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has confirmed that the data in the mobile phone of former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena has been completely destroyed and unrecoverable. These facts were revealed when the Chief Inspector of the Digital Forensic Laboratory of the CID Sampath Kumara testified yesterday before the Presidential Commission investigating the Easter Sunday Attack. Chief Inspector of Police Sampath Kumara -When th...

By Rathindra Kuruwita The Digital Forensic Laboratory of the CID had been unable to recover deleted data from the mobile phone used by former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena during the Easter Sunday attacks, the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks was told on Wednesday night. OIC of the Digital Forensic Laboratory, Sampath Kumara Senaratne told the PCoI that Jayawardena’s wife was using the phone now and that Jayawardena told him that he conducted a factory reset before giving it to his wife. A factory reset restores an electronic device to its orig...

By Rathindra Kuruwita A large number of senior intelligence officers had left the service after 2015 and that had caused the inability of the service to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks, former acting Director of the SIS, retired ASP Parakrama Lankapura told the PCoI investigating the Easter Sunday attacks on Wednesday night. Lankapura said that producing an experienced intelligence officer was as difficult and resource intensive as producing a diplomat and that losing senior officers affected the intelligence services. The witness said that the State Intelligence Service (SIS) had the abili...