The website of NP Capital, a company associated with businessman Nimal Perera, is inaccessible, the Daily Mirror reported on Wednesday. No reason for the outage has been established.
The paper reported at 3.26 p.m. that the site appears unavailable, raising questions about the status of its online presence and the business ventures it featured.
It then states, in its own words, the limit of what is known: there is no verified information establishing the reason, and it is not clear whether the outage relates to routine maintenance, technical issues, or a decision to take the website down.
Why this is being reported at all
A company website going offline is not ordinarily news. The Daily Mirror’s reason for filing is the identity of the person associated with it.
Perera has been linked to the controversial Airbus aircraft procurement deal involving Sri Lanka, and has been reported as a state witness in proceedings connected to the case involving Namal Rajapaksa, the paper says.
That is the whole basis of the story’s news value, and it should be read carefully. A witness in a live proceeding is a person of public interest; an inaccessible website is not evidence of anything about that proceeding, and the Daily Mirror does not say it is.
What this desk is not reporting
No inference is drawn here between the outage and the Airbus case. None is available. A website can be unreachable because of an unpaid hosting invoice, an expired domain registration, a server fault, a migration, or a deliberate decision — and the report rules out none of these.
The Daily Mirror’s own framing is that the outage “raises questions.” It does not answer any of them, and nothing in the filing supports a conclusion about the company’s status, its ventures, or Perera’s position in any legal matter.
Readers should also note that the Daily Mirror does not report having contacted the company, and does not say how long the site has been down or when it was last reachable.
The one check a reader can make
The only verifiable claim in the report is the outage itself, and it has an obvious weakness: website accessibility varies by network, region and time. A site unreachable from one place may be reachable from another, and a site down at 3 p.m. may return by evening.
The report gives no technical detail — no error observed, no date the site was last seen working, no indication whether the domain still resolves. Without those, even the central fact is reported at a level of precision that does not allow it to be checked.
Not reported
The Daily Mirror does not name NP Capital’s directors or officers, state what the company does, describe the ventures the site featured, or say whether the company has any listed or regulated status.
It does not report any comment from NP Capital, from Nimal Perera, or from any representative. It does not say where Perera currently is, what stage the Airbus-related proceedings have reached, or what his evidence concerns. It does not report any regulatory action, insolvency step, or corporate announcement.
On sourcing. This is a single-source report, and it is a thin one. No other verified newsroom had filed on the outage at the time of writing, roughly five hours after the Daily Mirror. This desk has published it because the underlying fact is attributed to a verified newsroom and is stated with its uncertainty intact — and has deliberately added nothing to it.
Source: Daily Mirror.