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By Gayan Kumara Weerasinghe
The death of school student Tihara Nirmani (16) who apparently fell from the fifth floor of a motel in Kalutara remains a mystery to date. With the Kalutara South Police unable to crack the case, IGP C.D Wickramaratne has now tasked the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) with uncovering the truth behind the incident that has shaken Sri Lanka to its core.
On May 6...
In the 1970s the Russel Ingram and Eunice Peiris murder cases shook Sri Lanka to its core. The main suspect, Father Mathew Peiris an Anglican priest was found guilty of using an overdose of insulin to murder his wife Eunice Peiris and Russel Ingram whose wife Darlene Ingram he was having an affair with.
The film According to Matthew by Chandran Ratnam was based on this...
Nabbed in France after tip-off from wife
In 2020 Sri Lankan drug kingpin Ellawala Liyanage Dharmasiri Perera better known by his alias Alto Dharme was arrested by the Abu Dhabi Police over a visa irregularity. However, he was never extradited to Sri Lanka and continues to live in the United Arab Emirates while operating his illegal drug trafficking business from the Middle Eastern country.
Sinhara Amal Shaminda...
The death of Attorney-at-Law Dushmanthi Abeyratne from Ratnapura a few days ago still remains a mystery.
Though initially it was thought the death may have occurred after a physical assault by her husband, the post-mortem carried out by forensic expert Dr. Sisira Kumara Dissanayake of the Kahawatta Base Hospital found no evidence of any attack on her body.
While...
The repatriation of alleged drug kingpins Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne alias Haraka Kata and Salindu Malshitha Gunaratne alias Kudu Salindu from Madagascar to Sri Lanka is a great victory to the Sri Lanka Police.
It is the longest distance extradition carried out in the country’s history. Previously drug kingpin Makandure Madhush was repatriated from Dubai on May 5, 2019...
By Gayan Kumara Weerasinghe
Shades owner found dead in pool
Shades Fashion is a leading family run clothing retailer in Sri Lanka. Its owners are a group of siblings from Kittampahuwa,...
The University of Peradeniya is one of the oldest and leading universities in Sri Lanka which is very much in demand among...
The Covid-19 pandemic negatively affected Sri Lanka’s economy, education and almost every other sector. The education of the...
The data in the phones used by Makandure Madhush and his accomplice Kanjipani Imran, are being analysed by the CID to find the...