Posted by col3neg on 8 Sep 2025 (10:04 PM). Hosted on the Internet.
Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne, also known as "Harak Kata", an underworld figure linked to large-scale drug trafficking, is to remain in custody under the PTA until the conclusion of legal proceedings, as per a detention order issued by the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, the Attorney General informed the Colombo High Court today. MORE..
8 Sep 2025 (3:42 PM)
The Department of Railways stated that a train travelling from Colombo to Avissawella has derailed between Puwakpitiya and Avissawella railway stations this evening (8). MORE..
8 Sep 2025 (9:55 PM)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has presented the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council. MORE..
8 Sep 2025 (5:53 PM)
Equipment used by officers in field operations, along with items resembling official police uniforms have been found buried on a plot of land in Middeniya, where chemicals believed to be imported for the production of Ice (crystal methamphetamine) were previously discovered, police stated. MORE..
8 Sep 2025 (8:50 PM)
An individual who allegedly filmed the vehicle convoy of the Chief Justice has been remanded until September 10, Ada Derana reporter said. MORE..
8 Sep 2025 (7:42 PM)
Former State Minister Prasanna Ranaweera, who was arrested and remanded for allegedly selling a plot of state-owned land in Kiribathgoda to a private party by forging documents, has been further remanded. MORE..
8 Sep 2025 (5:24 PM)