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Woman who posed as a pilot remanded over foreign job fraud
A 44-year-old from Nochchiyagama allegedly wore an air force uniform to collect Rs. 13.5 million from a bus owner who sold a bus to pay her.
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75 Northern Province students with disabilities honoured at Jaffna ceremony
PM says equal rights for all is fundamental policy as President's Fund awards Rs. 100,000 to 75 Jaffna university students.
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President orders reservoir capacity increased to prepare for El Niño
Anura Kumara Dissanayake tells officials to expand small and medium reservoirs and bring irrigation rehabilitation under a single national plan.
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Saliya Peiris: 'One should not monkey with the Judiciary'
Past BASL president Saliya Peiris told a Colombo seminar the government will one day understand the opposition to the 22nd Amendment.
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Sugeeshwara Bandara admitted to prison hospital
Gotabaya Rajapaksa's former private secretary was moved to the prison hospital on Friday after a vein in his leg burst, Hiru News reported.
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UN welcomes Sri Lanka's move to ease refugee returns from India
UN chief says organisation will facilitate refugee returns after Cabinet simplified immigration clearance for wartime evacuees.
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22nd Amendment petitions reach 13 as SLPP goes to Supreme Court
Two further petitions against the 22nd Amendment were filed on Friday, one of them by SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam, taking the total to 13.
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Navy commends 10 Angulana police officers over fast attack craft rescue
Vice Admiral Damian Fernando presented letters of commendation to 10 Angulana police officers for their role in rescuing 11 sailors off Angulana.
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Most railway engines in poor condition, deputy minister says after KKS train breakdown
Poor engine condition caused the Colombo-Kankesanthurai train breakdown, Deputy Minister Prasanna Gunasena told Parliament.
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Education Ministry releases 2027 school term calendar
Circular 31/2026 sets three terms for 2027, 197 school days, and schedules the A/L exam for August and the O/L exam for December.
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Gazette on providing captive elephants for Peraheras in final stages
Deputy Minister Anton Jayakody says no restrictions have been imposed on elephants for the Dalada Perahera and a draft Gazette is nearly complete.
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Twenty years on, Allaipiddy marches for disappeared priest Fr. Jim Brown
Protesters marched in Allaipiddy on the 20th anniversary of Fr. Jim Brown's disappearance, rejecting domestic inquiries and demanding an international probe.
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Two more arrested over Mount Lavinia shooting
Police say two Mount Lavinia residents aged 20 and 23 aided the August 15 Huludagoda Road killing. Both have been remanded until August 28.
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Namal Rajapaksa leaves FCID after recording statement
The SLPP National Organiser spent Friday at the FCID recording a statement on the Tangalle Bay Hotel purchase, NewsFirst reported.
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Families of 10 officers killed in Negombo Prison clash receive Rs. 2 million each
Compensation of Rs. 2 million per officer was handed to families of 10 Prison Emergency Response Unit officers at Prison Headquarters under the Agrahara scheme.
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PHIs report sick island-wide as token strike over airport transfer begins
Public Health Inspectors launched their threatened token strike on Friday, with Daily Mirror naming the transferred officer for the first time.
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Police warn of vehicle thefts as drivers leave engines running
Police say vehicles, motorcycles and three-wheelers are being stolen when left unattended with keys in the ignition or parked outside unlocked gates.
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Police appeal for public help to trace three Chinese nationals in Port City murder
Police released photographs of three Chinese nationals wanted over the July Port City abduction and murder, warning their tourist visas have expired.
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President orders advance planning for El Niño water and power risks
Anura Kumara Dissanayake told officials not to wait until reservoirs run dry before rationing water, with severe drought forecast for February to April.
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President orders security forces to speed up Northern and Eastern land releases
Anura Kumara Dissanayake tells the Tri-Forces and Police to settle which conflict-era lands can be returned, urging the maximum possible release.
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Formal presidential pardon procedure headed to Cabinet, Justice Minister says
A committee under retired Justice S. Thurairaja recommends commuting death sentences to life and cutting life terms to 20 years after a 10-month study.
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Sainthamaruthu police officers remanded over Rs. 20,000 bribe
A Police Inspector and a constable arrested by CIABOC over an alleged Rs. 20,000 bribe have been remanded until August 28 by the Kalmunai Magistrate.
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Suresh Sallay's wife asks President not to extend detention order
S.B.M.S.B. Sallay says her husband's heart condition makes a return to CID custody dangerous, and asks that he be moved to remand under judicial supervision.
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Speaker tells Parliament four more petitions filed against 22nd Amendment
Jagath Wickramaratne said he received copies of four further Supreme Court petitions against the 22nd Amendment, a day after announcing three.