CIABOC filed two charges in the Colombo High Court accusing the former minister of diverting 36,000 kg of state-imported seed maize from Anuradhapura farmers.
Prisons spokesperson Anuruddha Gajanayake says 30,000 of the 40,000 inmates are remand suspects, against a system designed to hold 11,000.
Anil Jayantha told the House the Rs. 20bn supplementary estimate reallocates existing funds within the 2026 borrowing ceiling and does not add to public debt.
Yoshitha Rajapaksa is summoned to the Bribery Commission on June 16 over a Royal Navy training programme allegedly obtained outside established procedures.
President Dissanayake convened the Met Department, irrigation, environment and energy agencies to map mitigation plans for the coming El Niño.
AKD chaired a Presidential Secretariat review of the Galle City Development Project; land is being sought to relocate key public institutions from the centre.
Horana Magistrate released the director on Rs. 100,000 cash bail, two Rs. 1 million sureties and a travel ban; next hearing is June 25.
Leader of the House Bimal Rathnayake told Parliament the Treasury could fund medical care for the Dharmasoka Vidyalaya pupil if the family submits the details.
A 61-year-old woman was killed by her husband in Padiwela, Bingiriya, on June 10. The suspect was arrested but later died of illness in hospital.
Western Province North Crime Division officers recovered 1.08kg of heroin and 5.02kg of crystal meth from a 42-year-old Boralesgamuwa man in Werahera.
Environment Minister Patabendi said the bill makes pre-clearance mandatory for GMO seeds, food or animals before they enter Sri Lanka or leave laboratories.
Opposition MP D.V. Chanaka says workers in Israel cannot access April and May remittances routed via Global Remit and a state bank, citing possible.
The bribery commission has received 3,349 complaints in the first four months of 2026 and arrested 70 people, including 32 state officials, with 51 prosecuted.
CIABOC arrested a coroner at Ragama Teaching Hospital after he accepted Rs. 100,000 for releasing a judicial inquest report on a December 2025 death.
Police are probing a group impersonating Public Health Inspectors in Anuradhapura, Eppawala, Thalawa and Thambuttegama to extort money from shop owners.
Three Hali-Ela residents were remanded until June 19 after the STF seized two suspected elephant pearls weighing 5,900 milligrams from their possession.
Galle Harbour Police arrested a 40-year-old Poddala man in Karapitiya with 4,700 Yuan, USD 1,112 and Rs. 24,120 allegedly stolen from a Makuluwu temple.
Udaya Gammanpila is giving evidence in a Colombo HC case alleging he misappropriated Rs. 20 million in shares from Australian businessman Brian Shaddick.
Minister Jayatissa handed appointment letters to nine new Deputy Directors General, including heads of the National Hospitals in Colombo, Kandy and Galle.
Japan and UNDP signed a ¥208 million Build Back Better deal targeting Kandy, Matale and Nuwara Eliya with debris clearance and community facilities.
Harshana Nanayakkara told Parliament the government is considering extending judges' retirement age but no Cabinet decision has been taken.
Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka told the Bribery Commission he was Chief of Defence Staff, not Army Commander, when KP was brought to Sri Lanka in 2009.
A private bus from Colombo to Ampara collided head-on with another bus operating from Badulla to Matara near the 170 Mile Post in Unathuwewa, Lunugamwehera.
Kadugannawa Police took two riders, aged 20 and 25, into custody after a confrontation in which a motorcycle was dragged under a bus near Henawala Hospital.