EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

by Staff Writer 02-05-2019 | 9:00 AM
COLOMBO (News 1st) -

Your Thursday Morning Brief

 
  1.  Imaam Mohammed Imaath Fakir suspected to have encouraged the chief suspect of the Easter Sunday attacks, Zahran Hashmi has been arrested by the police.
  2. The 26th memorial ceremony of late President Ranasinghe Premadasa was held at the Premadasa statue near the Hulftsdorp Courts Complex, yesterday.
  3. A driver of a politician was arrested at Samanthurai over a cache of weapons that was found buried.
  4. Twenty-five suspects arrested with stock of syringes used to obtain blood samples and 150 circuits used to manufacture bombs among other suspicious items in Akurana.
  5. The embassy of Saudi Arabia in Sri Lanka advised its nationals to leave Sri Lanka, due to the prevailing security crisis in Sri Lanka.
  6. All the identities of Sunday Easter attack revealed.
  7. Katuwapitiya attacker's last safe house prior to the attack searched.
  8. Cyclone ‘FANI’ over west-central and south-west Bay of Bengal and to the north-east of Sri Lanka, is located about 670 km north-east of Trincomalee is likely to move north-northeastwards moving away from the island towards the coast of Orissa in India.
  9. The University Grants Commission will seek the assistance of police and tri-Forces to ensure the safety of the universities.
  10. The Department of Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs states that measures are being taken to ban the mosques operating under the authority of the National Thawheed Jammath and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem.

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