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A meeting between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and prison guards, jailers and other prison officials was held at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon (17). The discussions focused on the problems that have arisen within the prison system and the urgent...

The National Dengue Control Unit says that the number of dengue patients reported in Sri Lanka during the past year has exceeded 73,000. According to the unit, the number of dengue patients reported in the country continued to increase as...

All Tamil and Muslim political parties representing the North, East and plantation areas have decided to launch a new campaign demanding the immediate holding of Provincial Council elections, which have been postponed indefinitely by the current government. As the first...

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has alleged that the vast majority of the country’s farmers, numbering in the millions, placed their trust in Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the JVP, after they claimed during election campaigns that they alone understood the hearts...

The three suspects, including attorneys Rakhitha Rajapaksa and Charith Abeysinghe, who are currently in remand custody on suspicion of accepting a bribe of Rs. 120 million to facilitate the safe transfer of underworld gang leader “Harak Kata” to another prison,...

Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickramaratne has died by suicide. He is reported to have shot himself at his residence in Athurugiriya. Mr. C.D. Wickramaratne, who served in the police service for more than 30 years, was the...

    A high-powered delegation of Indian IT/Tech CEOs, led by Mr Rajesh Nambiar, President, NASSCOM visited Colombo from 15-16 July 2026. NASSCOM is the leading business chamber of Indian IT & software companies. On 16 July, NASSCOM’s flagship Tech SME...

The Embassy of the Republic of Türkiye commemorated the 10th anniversary of the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016, with a special lecture delivered by Ambassador Dr. Semih Lütfü Turgut to students of the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute...

The famous walking path at Independence Square, which was constructed 15 years ago under the leadership of former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the health and well-being of the people of Colombo, has now fallen into a severely dilapidated condition,...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and TVK leader Thalapathy Vijay has expelled TVK Chengalpet East District Joint Secretary NV Weera, alias Veerasamy, from the party over allegations of accepting bribes. Weera, who was the president of the Mambakkam Panchayat Union in...