The Navy has seized Rs.18 million worth of heroin in the Southern sea area.
During a search operation carried out 573 nautical miles off the Dondra,south of Sri Lanka 8 foreign nationals who were aboard a trawler carrying 926 grams of heroin were arrested.
The gross street value of these seized items are around Rs.18.5 million worth.
The trawler and suspects arrested were brought ashore to the port of Colombo yesterday morning(28).
They were identified as Iranian and Pakistani nationals aged between 17 and 42, they were handed over to the Police Narcotic Bureau for further legal action.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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