The OIC (administration) of Mirigama police has been arrested over the abduction of a person 13 years ago.

A warning has been issued that oral cancer could be present among schoolchildren and youth aged below 20 due to an addiction to packeted-betel chewing.

A meeting between the UK-based Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and a group of Buddhist monks followed by the release of a document called the “Himalayan Declaration” aimed at what they call “advocates for a pluralistic Sri Lanka that actively promotes the well-being of all its communities” has been strongly denounced by the local Tamils and the Tamil diaspora from Australia to America.

Revenue of the state can be raised by 50 per cent without increasing burdensome taxes on the people, said MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.

Three youth organizations have launched an anti-corruption strategy in line with the international anti-corruption day on 16 December.

The warden of a hostel in Kirulapone run by a religious group has been arrested on a charge of sexually abusing five girls since 2020.

A hunt is on for a technology lecturer of Ruhuna University who has physically-abused a five-year-old girl, whom he had adopted.

Sri Lankan Shehan Ranish Hewage, who died while fighting for Ukraine in the war with Russia, has been buried with military honours, reports ‘Sandeshaya with Saroj’.

Many well-known lawyers who oppose the appointment of Deshabandu Tennakoon as the acting IGP are found to appear for drug racketeers and earn millions, charged public security minister Tiran Alles.

A British boy who was found in France after going missing for six years has landed safely back in the UK, according to local police.