Deputy Ports Minister Kodithuwakku said the vessel will strengthen Sri Lanka's maritime security and coastal surveillance; ceremony held at the East Terminal.
BASL wrote to President Dissanayake opposing a reported plan to amend the Constitution and extend Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judges' retirement age.
COPF was told entire Rebuilding Sri Lanka donation fund remains unused in a separate Treasury account, with no legal framework formally creating the fund.
The Western Province (North) Crimes Division seized 19 revolvers and arrested four suspects in a major raid at Dematagoda, the Sri Lanka Police said.
Four members of a Milidduwa family were arrested in Galle after a viral Facebook video showed them assaulting a 16-year-old accused of theft, police said.
Colombo Fort Magistrate barred former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and two military officers from leaving the country in the CID Easter Sunday attacks probe.
Sri Lanka's Health Ministry has gazetted recruitment of 3,000 student nurses, the first phase of a plan to add 13,600 personnel to the nursing service by 2029.
Sri Lanka Police are hunting a suspect who snatched a bag with about Rs. 30.5 million in cash from a state bank employee in Horana on Wednesday afternoon.
Police say a suspect grabbed two bags of cash being moved between state bank branches in Horana around 2.45pm Wednesday and fled the scene on foot.
Police arrested 44-year-old Sampath Kumaratunga, alias Bonchiya, of Payagala over the May 28 Wettumakada shooting after tracking him to a Maligawatta hideout.
A pistol was fired nine times into the air after a cab and a car collided in Maduwanwela, Kiriella, leaving one Horana man hospitalised, police said.
The National Water Resources Board says new laws will be introduced to regulate commercial groundwater extraction by amending the Water Resources Board Act.
PNS Taimur, Aslat and submarine Hangor docked alongside India's INS Airavat on June 1; a Sri Lanka Navy PASSEX with Pakistan is scheduled off the west coast.
A four-member JMC panel testified at Kuliyapitiya Court that Treasury official Ranga Rajapaksa's death was caused by self-inflicted cuts; next hearing June 12.
A 28-year-old husband was arrested in Rangala over the alleged murder of his 22-year-old wife, after police exhumed her body from a marsh behind their home.
Suresh Salley has PTSD and severe mental distress and was tortured at five locations, his lawyer told the Colombo Fort Magistrate, citing a JMO report.
Fort Magistrate ordered the CID to respond to a motion citing JMO findings that Suresh Sallay is suffering from PTSD, depression and self-harm risk in remand.
JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva met outgoing Indian Deputy High Commissioner Satyanjal Pandey at JVP headquarters, concluding his three-year Colombo tenure.
External Resources officials sent $2.5 million to a fraud entity on a single emailed invoice without verifying the original loan agreement, CID told court.
The Supreme Court lifted the interim ban on Vavuniya Municipal Council and Mayor Kandeepan but kept the restriction on Deputy Mayor Karthipan in force.
Seven students aged 14 to 17 were remanded at the Kebithigollewa probation centre over a viral video assault on two 15-year-olds at the Irattaperiyakulam tank.
Agrarian Development Department says fertilizer subsidy grants have reached 75% of Yala paddy land, with Rs.8,990mn paid and Rs.2,000mn due this week.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala says 23 leading traffickers behind Sri Lanka's narcotics networks are operating from overseas, mainly the Middle East.
Thirty Indian fishermen from Rameswaram and Karaikal, held in Sri Lankan prisons for trespassing into international waters, reached Chennai on Monday.