Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that orders were given to tighten security in the East soon after the bombs went off at churches in Colombo on Easter Sunday.

Islamist extremists in Sri Lanka are believed to be planning attacks on bridges in Colombo, the authorities said, as they warned that several conspirators in the Easter Sunday bombings which killed 257 people were still at large.

The Kalmunai Traffic Police Constable, who provided vital information on the terrorist hideout in Sainthamarthu was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and awarded Rs.500,000, Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.

Fifty nine United National Front MPs including some senior ministers are expected to hand over a written request to President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday requesting him to appoint Filed Marshall Sarath Fonseka as the Minister of Law and Order.

We will consider a tax amnesty program for the tourism industry in a bid to help companies recover from the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks that killed more than 250 people, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said.

Indian prosecutors have charged controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik with money laundering, BBC reported.

The Attorney General today declined to appear for IGP Pujith Jayasundara and Special Security Division DIG Priyalal Dasanayake in the fundamental rights petition filed in the Supreme Court despite a request made by the Director of the Police Legal Di

Referring to the arrest of three suspects attached to the Public Enterprise Development Ministry with 600 letters at the Central Mail Exchange (CME) in Pettah on Thursday, Minister Lakshman Kiriella said as far as he was aware the letters did not con

The United States are not operating a ‘special economic corridor’ in Sri Lanka as claimed by Opposition MP Wimal Weerawansa, a spokesperson for the US Embassy said.

The computer and the photocopy machine which were believed to be used to prepare defamatory letters against the President were seized from the Ministry of Public Enterprises at the World Trade Centre in Colombo today, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunase

In the aftermath of the Easter Sunday terror attacks, the occupancy rate of hotels has declined by 70 percent countrywide, Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) President Sanath Ukwatte said.

Attorney-at-law Nissanka Nanayakkara, who visited the Fort Police Station where three suspects were detained for possessing letters defamatory against the President, said criticizing the President was not an offence.

The president and the secretary of the Jaffna University Students’ Union had been arrested by the Kopai Police on charges of having in their possession posters containing the picture of former LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the Kopai Police s

A 40-year-old man, who is alleged to have been in charge of the finances of the National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) organisation in the Central Province, was arrested by police in the early hours of yesterday in Gampola.

The three suspects who were arrested yesterday along with 600 letters containing defamatory remarks against the President at the Central Mail Exchange (CME) in Pettah, were handed over to the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) today for further investigat

Four foreign nationals have been arrested in the Awissawella and Grandpass areas over visa violations yesterday, police said.

State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne yesterday said the government would not hesitate to take stern actions against those who are involved in posting fake news, thereby they would become a threat to national security.

National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) leader Mohamed Zahran Hashim had reportedly given his sister, Mohamed Cassim Mohamed Niyas Madaniya, a sum of Rs.2 million when he met her on April 12 in Colombo prior to the suicide bombings on Easter Sunday, police i

The Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund had incurred a loss of Rs. 48,000 million until now after signing two illegal agreements to transfer Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) to a separate private entity during the fi

Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs Director M.R.M.Malik said that there are 1,669 Islam ‘Madrasa’ schools and 317 Arabic schools registered under the Department of Muslim religious and Cultural Affairs all over the country.

Internal and Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardana yesterday instructed the Controller of Emigration and Immigration to take steps to deport all foreigners remaining in the country without visas and those overstaying their visas, under the prevail

All vehicles entering and exiting the Northern region are being subjected to rigorous inspection after the intelligence services had received information that 20 explosive-laden vehicles had entered the North from the South, the Army said.

Three suspects were arrested with at least 600 letters containing defamatory remarks against the President at the Central Mail Exchange (CME) in Pettah, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said.

Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that he did not believe former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was behind the Easter Sunday terror attack.

Police protection will be provided to all schools when they are re-opened next Monday, May 6, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today.

Reuters foreign journalist Siddiqui Ahamad Danish was remanded by the Negombo Magistrate today for forcibly attempting to enter the Maris Stella College in Negombo, police said.

The bodies of ten terrorists, who died following the explosion that took place in a house in Sainthamaruthu, were buried today without religious rituals, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said.

The Cabinet has given the nod to offer legal interpretation to a child and youth based on their age, Justice and Prison Reforms Minister Talatha Atukorale said.

A suicide kit was recovered from a house in Kattankudy belonging to the brother of National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim, Rilwan, following a joint search operation carried out by the STF and police today.

A suspect who was detained by the Keselwatte Police in Colombo on suspicion of having links with the proscribed National Thawheed Jamath movement was today ordered to be remanded till May 7 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage.