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Framework for overseas voting to be drawn up from next year, Elections chief says
The Election Commission met the committee on expatriate voting. The mechanism — advance, postal or another method — is still undecided.
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Indian actor Gagan Malik leads Buddhist delegation to JVP headquarters
Tilvin Silva met a World Organization of Buddhist Scholars Alliance delegation led by Prof. Malapalli Laxmaiah of the Buddhavanam project in Telangana.
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Gammanpila goes to Court of Appeal over order that suspended the Gnanasara sathyagraha
The former minister seeks a writ of certiorari quashing the Colombo Chief Magistrate's order, naming the IGP and the Attorney General among respondents.
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'Ghafoor Mama' sentenced to 12 years over the Wanathawilluwa explosives stockpile
The third defendant pleaded guilty to five indictments. Seven and a half years already served in remand come off the sentence.
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CID noticed to state facts on lifting Gotabaya Rajapaksa's travel ban
The former president asked the Fort Magistrate's Court to let him travel to Singapore for heart treatment. The CID was absent when the case was called.
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Homagama Crime Division OIC arrested over death of man in police custody
The first arrest in the Ishara Harsha Kumara case, made hours after the Homagama Magistrate ordered suspects detained and produced before court.
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Homagama Magistrate orders suspects arrested over death in police custody
The court directed the crimes division to expedite the probe and produce suspects, acting on a motion filed by the dead man's family and civil society groups.
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Human Rights Commission summons the Homagama station OIC and two officers over the custody death
HRCSL has ordered three officers to appear on Thursday and is recording statements from the dead man's family.
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ITJP report alleges more than 300 wounded LTTE fighters were killed at Ananthapuram in 2009
The group says seven survivors have described the battle publicly for the first time, and that the Army's own body counts cannot otherwise be reconciled.
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Johnston Fernando indicates a guilty plea on three Motor Traffic Act counts, then denies any import-tax fraud charge
Johnston Fernando pleaded guilty to Motor Traffic charges through lawyers before Fort Magistrate; later denied import tax fraud allegations.
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Indian national held at Katunayake with Rs 456 million in cocaine and narcotic pills, Customs says
Customs says the suspect carried 5kg of cocaine and 13kg of narcotic pills — some 23,000 tablets — seized at the airport.
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Theft suspect caught by villagers and handed to Kobeigane police dies in hospital, four villagers arrested
A senior officer says villagers assaulted the young man before the handover. Police Spokesman ASP F.U. Wootler says four of them have been arrested.
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Navy and Air Force search for four fishermen whose boat sailed from Kudawella on 21 October
A Sri Lanka Navy spokesman says the vessel put to sea a week before the search began. This is a separate case from the Mullaitivu search.
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Former Youth Services chief bailed after Bribery Commission arrest over Ampara land deal
Lalith Piyum Perera was released on two bonds of Rs 1 million each over an alleged Rs 5.1 million loss to the state from a sublease and repairs.
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Namal Rajapaksa's bail order in the Krrish case fixed for 3 November
Colombo's Chief Magistrate will rule on 3 November. CIABOC opposed bail, citing a remark by defence counsel it read as a threat to witnesses.
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Customs finds Rs 157 million of cannabis and hashish built into table parts shipped from Thailand as a gift
Drugs were concealed inside components of a table declared as a gift. A 29-year-old from Ragama has been arrested.
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Premadasa asks whether the Homagama custody death is a step towards a police state
The Opposition Leader linked the death in police custody to two security bills before Parliament, calling for an independent investigation.
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Sugeeshwara Bandara further remanded until 11 November over double salary allegation
Gotabaya Rajapaksa's former private secretary has been in custody since June over salaries drawn for two posts.
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Joint Opposition says the Terrorism Bill would end media freedom, and puts a number on the penalty
G.L. Peiris says a media report could be treated as terrorism and journalists forced to name sources. The gazetted text has carve-outs he does not mention.
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Thenuwara villagers want two electric fences and a patrol service; the minister offers land to young families first
Elephants cross a 2.5km gap between two reserves. The minister says 5,000 former Civil Security Force personnel have joined the Wildlife Department.
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Named in Parliament over a High Court case his lawyers cannot find, Thilan Wijesinghe asks who supplied it
No court case found for the number cited in a list of 50 corruption cases. The former BOI chairman says withdrawal does not undo the damage.
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Former Colombo mayor's son bailed over alleged Rs 5.9 million jeep fraud
Umair Muzammil was released on two bonds of Rs 2.5 million each after the Fraud Bureau told court the money was taken and the vehicle never delivered.
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Yoshitha Rajapaksa and Wasantha Karannagoda to stand trial from 23 November
The Colombo High Court closed the pre-trial conference and fixed a date in a case over a Royal Navy course arranged while Karannagoda was Navy Commander.
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Red Notice suspect 'Achini' arrested in UAE and returned over Middeniya triple murder
Anusha Lakmali, wanted over the February 2025 killing of Aruna Vidanagamage and his two children, has been brought back to Sri Lanka, police say.