Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, November 6 (Daily Mirror) – Two individuals were arrested by the Wildlife Conservation Department’s Emergency Raid Unit while attempting to sell ten rare Rath-Dothalu flowers in the Moragahayata area of Ratnapura. According to wildlife officials, these flowers are often used as offerings to the Buddha. The suspects, who were apprehended […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේත් කනෙන් රිංගා රාජකාරි අවශ්‍යතා මත යනුවෙන් සඳහන් කර සී අයිද්ධියේ ප්‍රධාන පොලිස් පරීක්ෂක ඉන්දුක ද සිල්වා මහතාව සීඅයිඩියෙන් පොලිස් මුලස්ථානයට මාරු කිරීමට රවි සෙනෙවිරත්න මහතා ක්‍රියාකළ බවත්,  රාජකාරි අවශ්‍යතා මත යැයි පැවසූවද කිසිම රාජකාරියක් ඔහුට පවරා නැති බවත් සර්වජන බලය කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් අපේක්ෂක සහ පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය නායක නීතිඥ […]

Courtesy PIME Asia News The annual document for Pope Francis on initiatives for the prevention of child abuse was presented today. The Commission calls on local Churches to overcome a culture of silence, a reluctance to report abuse, and a general lack of education and awareness concerning safeguarding practices.” Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The first Annual […]

Source: Computer Crime Research Center Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Vijitha Herath acknowledged the growing problem of the island becoming a hub for international cybercrimes, warning that its shaky economic recovery might be impacted. “We have to see if Sri Lanka is a cyber crimes hub,” Herath told reporters,”and whether our financial system is being affected by […]

Courtesy Adaderana Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and former MP Udaya Gammanpila says that former Senior DIG Ravi Seneviratne, who has been named as a main accused in an investigative committee reports on the Easter Sunday attacks, should be immediately removed from the post of Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security. He made these […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Member of Parliament Udaya Gammanpila stated that the second report concerning the Easter Sunday attack will be released on October 28. He made this announcement during a special press conference held today (21) to address the findings related to the attack. At the event, Gammanpila unveiled the first committee report, which […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් යුක්ක්‍රේන, ඉන්දීය සහ බල්ගේරියන් සයිබර් අපරාධකරුවන් රටට ඇතුළු වී කරන මුදල් වංචා හේතුවෙන් මෙරට බැංකු පද්ධතිය කඩා වැටී ජාතික ආර්ථිකයට විශාල බලපෑමක් එල්ල විය හැකි බව රහස් පොලිසිය කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් තිළිණ ගමගේ මහතාට (30) දැනුම් දුන්නේය. අන්තර්ජාලය හරහා සිදුවන වංචා හේතුවෙන් මෙරට බැංකු පද්ධතිය කෙරෙහි ජනතා විශ්වාසය බිඳ වැටීමට […]

Hiru News The Divisional Crimes Detective Bureau of Panadura Police has arrested the second gunman and the driver involved in the double murder case in Athurugiriya, known as the “Club Wasantha” murder. The suspects were apprehended in the Pinwatta area of Panadura. The arrested individuals, aged 29 and 32, are residents of Nagoda and Ahugalla. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has arrested one of the suspected gunmen involved in the recent killing of two persons including businessman Surendra Wasantha Perera’ also known as’Club Wasantha’, in the Athurugiriya area. The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Patty Arambage Ajith Rohana, was apprehended by the TID in the Kawdana area of Dehiwala.  […]

Pramod Madhav Courtesy India Today A key suspect in a Sri Lankan human trafficking case that came to light in 2021 was arrested in Tamil Nadu on Saturday. He has been on the run for the past three years. The investigation revealed that Aabulkhan, along with his associates, was involved in confining trafficked victims on […]

Courtesy Adaderana The main suspect in the killing of ‘Club Wasantha’ at Athurugiriya, Sujeewa Ruwankumara alias ‘Loku Patty’ has been arrested in Belarus, according to police sources. He has reportedly been arrested by security service personnel in Belarus, the source said. Several accomplices of ‘Loku Patty’, who is said to be an organized criminal and […]

DARSHANA SANJEEWA BALASURIYA   Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 13 (Daily Mirror) – As many as 45 Sri Lankan criminals –red noticed by Interpol are stationed overseas – mostly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – and carry organised criminal activities in Sri Lanka, a top police source said.    The government has initiated action […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the importance of those entering the teaching profession dedicating themselves to the future generation, noting that education in a country cannot thrive without discipline. He declared that no one would be permitted to disrupt school education between 7:30 am and 1:30 pm and he has directed the Attorney General […]

MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu A Sri Lankan Navy sailor was killed in an operation targeting Indian fishermen and their fishing vessel off Kankesanthurai in the Jaffna peninsula, in the island’s nation’s Northern Province The death of a Sri Lankan naval sailor has brought a long-standing fisheries conflict between India and Sri Lanka into the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 28 (Daily Mirror) – The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has conducted a widespread operation resulting in the apprehension of 137 Indian nationals suspected of being involved in a large-scale online financial scam across multiple locations in the country. According to Police Media Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa, the arrests took […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Navy says that the 10 Indian fishermen who were arrested while poaching in Sri Lankan waters off Kankesanthurai in the early hours of Tuesday (25) will also face charges for causing the death of a naval person and for causing damage to naval property. The Sri Lanka Navy had conducted a […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය ලබා ගත් විදේශ ණය මුදලක් ගෙවීම සඳහා 2023 වසරේදී ඩොලර් එකක් ලබා ගෙන ඇත්තේ රුපියල් 524.6050ක විදේශ විනිමය අනුපාතකියකට බව විගණකාධිපතිවරයා හෙළිකර ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.  මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ 2023 වාර්ෂික වාර්තාවට ඇතුලත් කර තිබෙන විගණකාධිපති නිරීක්ෂණ වාර්තාවෙන් මේ බව හෙළිකර ඇත. එම විදේශ විනිමය අනුපාතිකය යටතේ ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් බුද්ධ චරිතය හා සම්බුද්ධ දේශනාවන් විකෘති කරමින් කටයුතු කරන මීවනපලානේ සිරි ධම්මාලංකාර නම් භික්ෂු ප්‍රතිරූපකයාගේ සාවද්‍ය හා විකෘති දේශනාවන් ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම හා මහා විහාර ධර්ම සම්ප්‍රදායන්ට හා ක්‍රිපිටක දේශනාවන්ට පටහැනිව බුදුන් වහන්සේ ලංකාවේ ඉපදීම යන සාවද්‍ය මතවාදය ප්‍රචාරණය කිරීම ඇතුළු කරුණු ගණනාවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් එල්ලවී ඇති චෝදනා හේතුවෙන් බදුල්ලගම්මන සුමනසාර හිමියන් වෙල්ලස්ස […]

 By Latheef Farook Four Sri Lankans were arrested  on Monday 20 May 2024  at the  Ahmadabad Airport in India  for  smuggling of gold and drugs.  According to Daily Mirror of 23 May 2024  Sri Lanka’s state intelligence has asked for further information from India’s state intelligence  to verify the background of these alleged suspects, as […]

Courtesy EasternEye A judge has now ordered him to be extradited to France, where he was convicted of people-smuggling and sentenced to five years in prison. Sathasivam Sivagankan, a refugee from Sri Lanka, who was granted asylum in the UK, managed a people-smuggling ring while employed at a chicken shop. The 58-year-old organised illegal Channel […]

Courtesy The Telegraph online Sri Lanka Police recently announced a cash award of Rs. 2 million for any credible information on the whereabouts of the wanted suspect. The four Sri Lankan nationals after being arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) for their alleged links to the Islamic State (IS), during a press conference, in […]

Courtesy India Today The individuals were apprehended during a recent raid on a house by Department of Immigration and Emigration officials in the upscale residential area of Cinnamon Gardens in Colombo. In Short Sri Lankan immigration authorities have detained eight Indian nationals, including one woman, for abusing their tourist visas by operating an IT business […]

60 Minutes Australia Gangsters’ Paradise (2024) It might sound strange, but the crime capital of Australia is currently Dubai. That’s because this glitzy mega city in the Persian Gulf has become home to nearly all of our biggest organised crime bosses. Their thinking in moving offshore is that they’re out of reach of federal and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, May 16 (Daily Mirror)- The hotel ‘Soul Beach,’ which was located in Dehiwala and later demolished, is suspected to have belonged to Shiran Basik, an alleged major drug smuggler currently operating from abroad, was alleged to have been built on government land, it was revealed. The hotel’s structures were removed […]

Courtesy Adaderana Actress Damitha Abeyratne and her husband, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over an alleged financial fraud, has been remanded on the orders of the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. Accordingly, the couple will be behind bars on remand until April 17. The actress and her spouse, who had been wanted […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has raised concerns about the recent trend of using currency notes to prepare ornaments and gift items and promotion of such activities through social media. In a special notice issued to the members of the public, the CBSL’s Superintendent of Currency advised against wilful mutilation or […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Police Special Task Force (STF), in a raid conducted on Tuesday night (March 19), has managed to arrest three suspects involved in organized crimes. Accordingly, a close associate of the infamous gangster Keselwatte Dinuka”, identified as Tharindu Ruwan Kumara, was apprehended in Borella. The STF personnel found 6.5 grams of heroin on […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested Dr. Thusitha Sudarshana, the Deputy Director of the Health Ministry’s Medical Supplies Division on arrival in Sri Lanka at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake. Police Media Spokesman DIG Nihala Thalduwa said the arrest was carried out in connection with the import of substandard Human Immunoglobulin […]

Courtesy Hiru News Taking into account the daily complaints reported to the police stations that children and women are being sexually abused in public transport services, a special operation was carried out across the island yesterday (07) as per the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon. In response to mounting concerns over […]