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In October 2014, then President Mahinda Rajapaksa met Pope Francis and invited him to visit Sri Lanka. Before that, in 2013, Mahinda had written to the Pope formally inviting him to the country. His objective was to secure the Pope's...

Indian Naval Ship ‘Sharda’, a Sukanya-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV), will visit Colombo from 10 to 13 June 2026 for operational turnaround (OTR) and transhipment of stores from the Indian Army for the Sri Lankan Army’s deployment in a UN mission. The...

While the public is under severe pressure due to rising tax rates on all other essential goods and services in the country, the government has granted a special tax break of Rs. 17.3 billion for cigarettes alone in 2026, says...

The Colombo High Court has sentenced Sarana Gunawardena to four years of rigorous imprisonment in each of the four cases filed by the Bribery Commission on corruption charges. Sri Lanka Latest News In addition, the court has also imposed a...

A complaint has been lodged with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) regarding an alleged scam involving the collection of money from individuals by promising unusually high interest rates.

Former Director of the State Intelligence Service, Suresh Saleh, who is currently hospitalized, continues to refrain from consuming food or water, according to his wife, Mrs. Manori Saleh. She made these remarks while responding to questions from journalists upon her...

The disappearance of US$2.5 million from the Treasury amounts to a major theft, and it is ultimately the public who will have to bear the cost, Finance Committee Secretary Harsha de Silva stated. Speaking on the matter, de Silva said...

The following is a note issued by President’s Counsel Saliya Peiris regarding the current government’s continuation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). For many years, numerous individuals and organizations have strongly condemned the misuse of harsh and oppressive laws...

On 3 June 2026, High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka H.E. Santosh Jha distributed humanitarian assistance in the form of high-quality fishing nets among fishing community members of Kayts, Nainativu and Analaitivu in Jaffna District.  In his remarks at...

Prominent lawyer and former President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Saliya Pieris, has reiterated longstanding concerns over the use of laws such as the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)...