7+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1414+ words) Sri Lanka presented a series of key proposals on fisheries policy at the 37th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI 37) this week at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. The…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago   (757+ words) Sri Lanka’s underworld violence is no longer confined to rival gangs settling their scores. Increasingly, the violence is spilling into ordinary homes and neighbourhoods, leaving innocent people, elderly residents and even sleeping children caught in the crossfire of conflicts they…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1046+ words) More than 1,500 statements have been recorded so far in the ongoing investigations into the recent riots in Negombo, Mahara, Kuruwita and Magazine prisons, while concerns over prison overcrowding and delays in drug-related cases remain unresolved. The investigations by the Criminal…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago   (583+ words) After arriving at the airport, Basik was questioned by CID officers before being handed over to the Central Crime Investigation Bureau for further investigations. But his return to Colombo may have opened the door to a much wider inquiry than…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (129+ words) sundaytimes.lk Riot virus engulfs prisons Like a disease‑carrying virus, last month’s prison riots in Negombo spread to Mahara last week and then to three more prisons — Welikada, Kuruwita and Pallasena — this week, heightening calls for prison reforms. Our…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1189+ words) By our Political Desk This week there was unrest in four prisons – Mahara, Magazine Remand Prison (Colombo), Kuruvita and Pallansena – which left three prisoners dead and scores of others injured. Some of the prisoners died of gunshot injuries after the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (957+ words) By our Political Desk Amid increasing signs that the National People’s Power (NPP) government is seriously considering introducing a constitutional amendment to increase the retirement age of judges of the superior courts, opposition to the move is also gaining momentum....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (200+ words) Pix and text by Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe Millions of rupees worth of donations sent by foreign countries as relief for people affected by Cyclone Ditwah have been left sitting in a warehouse in the Gampola Uda Palatha Divisional Secretariat area…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (175+ words) My beloved brother, Don Ranjith Asoka Kottege, Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-Law, devoted husband, loving father, cherished grandfather, and dear brother, passed away on Friday, 5 June 2026. Former private secretary to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sugeeshwara Bandara, arrested over allegations of a…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (174+ words) Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe has agreed to file charges against Buddhist monks arrested over various crimes under the names listed on their birth certificates, provided the respective sect (nikaya) of such monks take steps to disrobe them. The agreement between…...