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  • SriLankan nose dived after Emirates left in 2008 - Witness
    SriLankan Airlines alone has been incurring continuous losses amounting to billions of rupees since 2008 onwards after its management was taken over by the Government of Sri Lanka from Emirates, it...
  • Wanted criminal found shot dead
    The main suspect of a murder which took place in Makola in December 2018, was found shot dead, by the Nawagamuwa Police in a rubber estate in Kaduwela yesterday.The deceased was identified as 37-year...
  • Five nabbed with Kerala cannabis
    The Divisional Law Enforcement Unit in Kalutara took five suspects into custody with 24 kilogrammes of Kerala cannabis during two raids conducted in the Dharga and Aluthgama towns on Sunday afternoon...
  • IP Ananda Sagara Sarathchandra
    Cops begin hunt for drunk drivers in Colombo city
    The Traffic Police commenced operations to net drunk drivers, especially in close proximity of nightclubs in Colombo City, from midnight yesterday.According to DIG Ajith Rohana, this would be...
  • Police Log
    Held for heroinThe Colombo Crime Division in a raid arrested a suspect with three grams and 100 milligrams of heroin, near the Kolonnawa flyover in the Dematagoda Police division on Sunday afternoon....
  • Five arrested with 24kg of cannabis
    The Divisional Law Enforcement Unit of Kalutara raided 24 kilograms of Kerala Cannabis with five suspects from the Darga town and the Aluthgama town on Sunday afternoon.The suspects are between ages...
  • Body recovered from the rubber plantation
    The main suspect of a murder case which took place in Makola area in December last year was found shot dead by the Nawagamuwa police at a rubber estate in Kaduwela this morning.The deceased, 37-years...
  • (Motor Traffic and Road Safety) DIG Ajith Rohana with a portrait of the victim Inspector at yesterday’s press conference. Picture by Saman Sri Wedage
    Mowed down IP succumbs in ICU
    CCTV footage and eye witnesses have revealed that it was the main suspect Navindu Ratnayake, who had been driving the defender jeep that killed a Police Inspector.Borella Traffic OIC, IP Ananda...
  • A teacher receiving her diploma certificate from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at Temple Trees yesterday. Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam looks on.
    Thorough training for all untrained teachers
    The government has created a framework for future education by providing key facilities such as trained teachers, building facilities, health insurance, new technology and the 13 year compulsory...
  • Party pills valued over Rs 9 mn found in airmail parcel
    Customs officers at the Airmail Parcels Section at the Central Mail Exchange detected 2002 pills of Methamphetamine drug valued around Rs. nine million hidden inside a parcel last afternoon.They had...
  • EC planning to publish audited accounts of political parties on-line
    The Elections Commission is planning to publish the annual audited accounts and the constitutions of the registered political parties on its website.Commissioner General of Elections M.M. Mohamed...
  • Youth netted with heroin
    The Colombo Crime Division, on a tip-off, arrested a suspect with 30 grams and 100 milligrams of heroin near the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium on Sunday afternoon.The 21-years-old...