Officials told MPs that delays in Government Analyst reports leave drug suspects on remand for 18 months to two years without bail.
Habeeb Rifan of Oddamavadi takes the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress National List seat under the party's rotation principle, moving the turn out of Ampara.
Fact Crescendo traced one image to Bangladesh's National Citizen Party launch in 2025. Others show crowds behind the stage, repeated faces and misspelt shop
The pile-up happened between the Galanigama and Dodangoda interchanges on a wet carriageway, two days after the expressway seat belt rule took effect.
Transit passengers are subject to Sri Lanka Customs, the Supreme Court has held, refusing an Indian national's claim to gold seized at BIA in 1991.
The trawler IDAY-A-0126 JFN left Jaffna on Saturday and was found in the small hours of Monday, out of fuel in the seas north of Talaimannar.
Police say 21 kilograms of drugs were recovered at Walgama, Matara, with a man and a woman in custody. The type of narcotic has not been disclosed.
The Colombo Chief Magistrate ordered his arrest when he failed to appear. His lawyer blamed a vehicle breakdown and asked for the warrant to be recalled.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake promises 121,000 state recruits by year-end, including 10,000 police and 30,000 teachers.
Investigators say officials used the personal details of deceased elderly people to draw welfare payments, in what may be Sri Lanka's largest welfare fraud.
Kalutara Crimes Division officers arrested two Maggona residents accused of abducting and robbing a Beruwala businessman over money he allegedly owed.
Police acting on a tip-off seized 48 passports, a counterfeit detection device and a mobile phone from a Kaduwela resident's premises in Ihala Bomiriya.
The Ditwah rebuild will support 25,000 damaged houses at Rs. 5 million each, the President says, marking the largest housing compensation programme on record.
Police seized 51 official seals and 35 forged certificates at a rented Ihala Imbulgoda house. The suspect says 200-300 clients have already travelled abroad.
A gang including a woman stopped visitors at Ellakanda waterfall, demanding ID cards and phones. CCTV led police to a house in Bulathsinhala.
Harshana Nanayakkara told a passing-out parade at Agunukolapelessa that prison policy aims beyond punishment at rehabilitation and reintegration.
Appointment letters for 350 health service assistants were presented in Jaffna, with 300 of the posts filled by the Northern Provincial Council.
Tipper drivers and assistants running sand from Vavuniya to Jaffna are accused of paying officers to skip signing the inspection section of their GSMB permits.
Deputy Minister Arun Hemachandra leads a delegation to Doha from September 20 to 23 for talks on recruitment, worker welfare and employment access.
The Opposition Leader published the full recording after UN Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche questioned why the Opposition was not pressing key issues.
The family said the former First Lady would be back on 19 September. She was not. Her spokesman will not say why, or where she is.
Police say the women arrived from Bangkok early Sunday carrying Kush and hashish in their luggage. The Police Narcotics Bureau is investigating.
One was fishing in a Polwathumodara River tributary, the other sea bathing at Kuda Payagala. Police, Navy and residents are searching for both.
The Speaker is expected to receive the confidential 22A determination on Monday and present it to the House on Tuesday, two days before the scheduled debate.