COLOMBO (News1st): Former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the then president Maithripala Sirisena had not convened National Security Council meetings after the political crisis in October 2018. "After he dismissed me as Prime Minister, when Mahinda Rajapaksa was made prime minis...

Colombo (News 1st); Police Special Task Force personnel fired shots into the sky in order to stop a car suspected of transporting drugs on Thursday (25) evening in Wattala. Sri Lanka Police said STF personnel were in pursuit of a car in Wattala and had opened fire into the sky, in order to stop i...

Colombo (News 1st); Police investigations have revealed the 45 kilograms of heroin seized from Horana on Wednesday (24) night, were part of a drug trafficking ring operated by two leading traffickers from Dubai. Deputy Police Chief Ajith Rohana speaking to reporters on Thursday (25) said one of t...

Colombo (News 1st); The Executive Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party on Thursday (25) unanimously decided to reject the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the 2019 April 21st Attacks. The proposal on rejecting the report was presented by MP Nimal Sirip...

Colombo (News 1st); The final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to probe the 2019 April 21st Attacks was subject to last-minute changes, alleged Venerable Hunupitiye Chandrasiri Thero, the Propaganda Secretary of the Ape Jana Bala Party. "This report was clearly manipulat...