Anguruwatota Police found 12,400 milligrams of heroin concealed in chilli paste inside two rice parcels at a checkpoint on the Millaniya-Batagoda Road.
Two men on a motorcycle set fire to a Kaduwela–Matara luxury bus before dawn on Wednesday. Its driver and conductor were asleep inside and escaped unharmed.
Police link shootings in Mount Lavinia, Dehiwala and Ratmalana to rival organised crime groups.
One of two hand grenades thrown at a Ratmalana house exploded, shattering windows. Police say the owner is a cousin of an alleged organised crime figure.
The SLPP says its general secretary's comments about the police chief were about transparency and fairness in policing, and have been misinterpreted.
One suspect arrested on a motorcycle at Ambagahawatta with six kilograms of hashish; a search of his home turned up six more.
Public Security Minister pledges IGP protection; CCIB investigates SLPP secretary's alleged threats to crackdown.
A five-judge bench set aside the High Court order that discharged the former minister and two CWE officials, restoring the bribery case to the trial roll.
A cross-talk broke out in Parliament over the proposal to raise the Auditor General's monthly salary, with the COPF chairman questioning his legal status.
Cabinet approves bill extending judicial retirement age to 68 after months of parliamentary debate.
Cabinet cleared new roadworthiness testing for passenger vehicles and an expressway seatbelt grace period extension to September 19 for parliamentary approval.
A police officer held over the killing of a man whose body was recovered from the Gin Ganga is remanded until August 17 by the Baddegama Magistrate's Court.
A Colombo magistrate remanded two suspects over undervalued imports. Customs says one Mercedes-Benz alone cost the state Rs. 4.1 million in lost taxes.
Masked attacker tries to shoot Dehiwala bakery owner; weapon fails to fire and victim disarms the suspect. A suspect was arrested on August 10.
Housing Minister Susil Ranasinghe chaired talks with the Army Commander on expanding trained demining personnel to 500 and speeding up mine clearance.
The IAJ, representing 93 national judges' associations, says the timing and manner of Sri Lanka's judicial retirement age amendment threaten judicial.
G.L. Peiris urges the UNDP, EU, ADB and Japan to review bail provisions in the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill, warning of worse prison overcrowding.
Former State Minister Pillayan remanded until August 18 in CID investigation of 2008 Batticaloa killings.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala says officers with clean records may get a year past 60, as the force moves to fill vacancies with 7,800 recruits.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake reviewed court construction, a Rs. 5.6 billion prisons allocation and Legal Draftsman capacity at a pre-Budget meeting on Tuesday.
Cabinet Spokesman Nalinda Jayatissa says no permanent Commissioner General of Prisons can be named until the probe into the former officeholder concludes.
The 15-member commission chaired by Ashoka Peiris opened in Colombo 7 to address two decades of public sector pay anomalies and pensioners' grievances.
Court of Appeal to hear intervening petitions in Suresh Sallay's PTA detention case on August 6.
Cabinet Spokesman Nalinda Jayatissa says Sagara Kariyawasam's comments implied the police chief could be assassinated. The CCIB has opened a special inquiry.