A tense situation has been reported inside the Mahara Prison, prompting authorities to deploy special police teams to the premises. Police said several special teams have been dispatched to assess and ...

Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara was today (31) sentenced to death by the Colombo Permanent Trial-at-Bar. The sentence was delivered when the Trial-at-Bar delivered its ...

The Colombo Trial-at-Bar is scheduled to deliver its verdict today (31) in the case filed against former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith ...

Former Minister Mervyn Silva’s ongoing illicit assets case, filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), has revealed details of multimillion-rupee bank ...

The Attorney General has informed court that further investigations are required into imports worth more than Rs. 500 million linked to House of Fashion owner Priyalal Bandula Peeti Jayawardena, who ...

Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) Ranga Dissanayake has rejected allegations that he acts arbitrarily, saying he is merely exercising the ...

Five people have reportedly died after a fire broke out at a helmet manufacturing factory in the Katuwana Industrial Zone in Homagama earlier today (21), according to Homagama Police. Police said the ...

The 21-year-old son of former State Minister Shantha Bandara is due to be produced before the Fort Magistrate’s Court today (22) after being arrested by the Kollupitiya Police in connection with the ...

The President’s Media Division (PMD) has rejected reports that 3,089 people were accommodated inside Presidential Residences in 2025, clarifying that the figure cited in the Auditor General’s report ...

Former Provincial Councillor Jayalath Bandara Dissanayake, the brother of former Minister S.B. Dissanayake, has been arrested over an alleged financial fraud involving Rs. 27.5 million, police said.

Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa cannot recall the circumstances under which a photograph of him with Azad Maulana was taken, President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva told the Court of Appeal during ...

A major art scandal has emerged with the revelation that 47 valuable and historic paintings from the National Art Gallery (Kalabhavana) have gone missing. Among the missing works are paintings now ...