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Four ministries to draft a national drowning prevention policy, with water safety taught in schools
Four ministries to jointly draft a national drowning prevention policy with water safety school curriculum.
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Government should carry part of the education burden parents bear, PM says at school handover
Harini Amarasuriya opened a Rs. 55 million building at Kadawalawewa Maha Vidyalaya and said delayed teacher and principal recruitment is resuming.
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President's Office says reports that Dissanayake was hospitalised are false
President's Office rejects reports of Dissanayake's hospital admission as unverified claims.
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Gazette gives imprisoned monks the right to wear robes outside prison, with the Nikaya deciding
Extraordinary Gazette allows imprisoned monks to wear robes outside prison unless their Nikaya objects.
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Sajith says farmers left helpless, puts paddy production cost at Rs 137 a kilo
Opposition Leader tells farmers that input costs and VAT have squeezed incomes while paddy prices remain depressed.
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Major General Sampath Fernando appointed Army Chief of Staff from October 27
An artillery officer takes over as Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army on October 27, succeeding Major General Udugama, who retired after more than 36 years.
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Standoff at Viharamahadevi Park as council officials try to remove satyagraha banners
Standoff erupts as council officials try to remove banners from monks' satyagraha on day nine.
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Supreme Court finds three Meetiyagoda officers violated a police sergeant's rights, nearly 15 years on
Two officers must personally pay Rs. 200,000 to a Baddegama sergeant assaulted and locked in a cell in December 2011. Five fellow officers backed him.
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Talalla haul confirmed at 561kg and Rs. 11.8bn, the Navy's largest land seizure this year
Navy seizes 561kg of narcotics valued at Rs 11.8bn, the largest land seizure this year.
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Thambuttegama villagers ask government to protect farmers as elephants fell coconut trees
Wild elephants destroy crops in Thambuttegama; residents blame inadequate fencing and closed state farm.
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Man, 28, found shot dead on leased coconut land at Nikawewa; father discovered the body at dawn
Man found shot dead on leased coconut land; police investigate with no motive established.
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Four Thai women arrested in Wellawatte brothel raid
Police raided a Marine Drive massage parlour in Wellawatte on Friday evening, arresting four Thai women and a woman suspected of running the establishment.
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Bimal Rathnayake tells Parliament that Hulangamuwa never advised Ranil Wickremesinghe
The Leader of the House rejected an opposition claim that the President's adviser held the same post under a previous administration.
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Chamara Sampath Dasanayake further remanded to November 6 over phosphate licence bribe allegation
The former State Minister and his secretary were remanded by the Colombo Chief Magistrate over an alleged Rs. 8.4 million bribe for phosphate import licences.
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Chemmani excavation report says site resembles formal burial, while recording 574 dead
The third interim report on Chemmani puts a minimum of 574 individuals at the site, with 41% children, but evidence is insufficient for conclusions.
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Colombo's population density has driven TB spread, health minister tells Parliament
Nalinda Jayatissa gave Colombo City's year-by-year tuberculosis counts, which peaked at 1,130 in 2023 and fell to 968 in 2025.
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Colombo court refuses both sides at Viharamahadevi Park: order stands, no arrest warrants
Chief Magistrate rejects monks' bid to lift the vacate order and the Attorney General's arrest warrant request at Viharamahadevi.
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Dayasiri Jayasekara sings a Vas Kaviya in Parliament, alleging arrests are planned over the verse
Opposition MP sings traditional curse-verse in Parliament over arrests of those who wrote a viral version.
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Development officers call an island-wide strike for 9 November over promotions and pay
The Joint Development Officers' Centre says a 10-year wait between grades and no absorption into permanent service remain unresolved.
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Gnanasara produced by WhatsApp; High Court says it cannot order his robe returned
The Colombo High Court says it has no power to reinstate Gnanasara Thera's robe as the satyagraha reaches day eight.
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Rights Commission asks Justice Minister to withdraw Organised Crime Bill
The HRCSL says the Prevention of Organised Crime Bill is wholly incompatible with the Constitution and potentially more draconian than the 1979 PTA.
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23 Indian trawlers seized so far in 2026, Chief Government Whip tells Parliament
Nalinda Jayatissa said 43 trawlers were taken into custody in 2025 and 23 this year, as MPs pressed on illegal fishing and a promised fishermen's app.
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Two kilometres of copper went missing from KDU Hospital's lightning conductors, COPE told
The public enterprises committee orders the Defence Ministry to speed up its inquiry into copper strips lost from KDU Hospital in 2022–2023.
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Kirinda Puhulwella council chairman and four officials bailed over alleged confinement in wall dispute
A woman and her son told Thihagoda Police they were summoned to the Pradeshiya Sabha over a boundary wall, locked in a room and assaulted.