Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, Ananda Wijepala, stated that a decision has been taken to establish a new police division to combat cybercrime in Sri Lanka

Deshabandu Tennakoon is the first head of police in Sri Lanka's history to be dismissed [Ishara S Kodikara/AFP] Sri Lanka’s Parliament has voted to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power in the island’s first ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s police used Tuesday tear gas and water cannons to disperse an opposition protest in the island nation facing its worst economic crisis while gearing up for a national election later this year.

Priyantha Weerasooriya stated that Sri Lanka Police recovered a significantly higher quantity of narcotics and weapons in 2025 compared to the previous year

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on February 20, 2025, which killed six elephants. - -/AFP/AFP via Getty Images A train collided ...

Sri Lankan police arrested two journalists early this month on bogus allegations. The arrests are part of the Wickremesinghe government’s escalating assault on freedom of speech and other democratic rights, including its Online Safety Act (OSA) to censor ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s wife and son were questioned separately by police Tuesday in connection with two different cases, officials said. The former first lady, Shiranthi Rajapaksa,

Sathsara Nimesh is not the first person to die under unclear circumstances while in the custody of Sri Lankan police, but his death seems to have inflamed the long-running debate on police violence in the South Asian country. The 25-year-old from the ...

The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) condemns the savage police attack on the May 12 protest of striking Sri Lankan university non-academic workers in Colombo. The protest near the parliament was one of several similar actions that day in the cities ...

Sri Lankan authorities have conducted a monthlong crackdown on drugs, resulting in the arrest of tens of thousands of people. More than 40,000 people have been arrested and questioned, with 5,000 being ordered detained by the courts, according to police.