The Sri Lanka Navy has seized a total of 10 local multi-day fishing trawlers involved in drug trafficking during the first three months of this year. MORE..

17 Apr 2026 (10:00 AM)

All eight people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed in Indonesia s West Kalimantan province, authorities said on Friday as search teams tried to retrieve the bodies and wreckage. MORE..

17 Apr 2026 (9:59 AM)

Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Limited (CPSTL) has announced that the first crude oil tanker to arrive in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the Middle East conflicts is scheduled to arrive today (17). MORE..

17 Apr 2026 (9:11 AM)

UPDATE- The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) has confirmed that the substance recovered from the local multi-day fishing vessel is heroin. MORE..

17 Apr 2026 (9:02 AM)

The Ministry of Digital Economy has announced that all public services of the Department for Registration of Persons (ID Office) have been temporarily suspended today (17) following an unexpected system breakdown. MORE..

17 Apr 2026 (8:55 AM)

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that if a deal with Iran to conclude the war is reached and signed in Islamabad, he might go, and that Iran has agreed to almost everything. MORE..

17 Apr 2026 (7:49 AM)