Colombo (News 1st);  Sri Lanka Navy arrested 02 people with 58 kilograms of Kerala Ganja (KG) on the Kakarativu Island in Jaffna on Friday. The seized KG is valued at over Rs. 06 Million. Sri Lanka Navy said the KG was transferred into a local dinghy in international waters, from another boat,...

Colombo (News 1st);  The Attorney General's Department concluded action with respect to 19,000 Criminal Cases in the past 15 months while dispatching a total of 10,895 indictments to the High Courts in Sri Lanka. Dappula De Livera, Sri Lanka's Attorney General said the Child Abuse Cases Unit whic...

COLOMBO (News1st): Males doing household work has gone up during the lockdown style curfew restrictions in Sri Lanka imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey has shown. The involvement of males in cleaning their homes had risen by six percent, and cooking by 9.5 percent, according to a s...

* Existing prison system is a failure * There is no discipline among inmates and prison officers * Dappula De Livera is the first Attorney General in Sri Lankan history to visit a prison in an official capacity Colombo (News 1st); Attorney General Dappula De Livera slammed the Department of Pri...

COLOMBO (News1st): Sports minister Dullas Alahapperuma has ordered a full-scale investigation into match-fixing claims involving the finals of the 2011 cricket world cup. On News1st's Newsline program on Thursday, the then sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage alleged that Sri Lanka had "fixed...