COLOMBO (News 1st): President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has raised serious concerns over the state of public security in Sri Lanka, revealing alarming findings about the circulation of military-grade weapons and the infiltration of criminal elements into law enforcement agencies.Speaking at the Satan...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The “Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Places of Unlawful Detention and Torture Chambers at the Batalanda Housing Scheme,” recently tabled in Parliament, has been handed over to the Attorney General by the Presidential Secretariat follo...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Colombo High Court on Monday (28) sentenced five individuals to death for their involvement in a murder that took place in 2012.The verdict was delivered by High Court Judge Navaratne Marasinghe.The defendants were found guilty of three charges, including the murder of a 21-y...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Police say 331 suspects have been arrested in the past 24 hours during the ongoing Crime and Drug Prevention Operation.Among them, 127 suspects were arrested with ICE, 98 with heroin, and 104 with cannabis.A special operation to crack down on drug traffickers has been underway si...

COLOMBO (News1st); Another suspect involved in the shooting and killing of two young men near the Devinuwara Vishnu Devalaya has been arrested. The suspect, a 33-year-old resident of Gandara South Thalalla, was apprehended for transporting the gunmen and conspiring to commit the murders.The inc...