Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, wedding Sunni Muslim U.S. allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire onto Gulf oil exporters.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has obtained court approval to name an additional 24 inmates as suspects in connection with the recent deadly clash at the Negombo Prison.

Select Committee of Parliament to review the laws dealing with Elections (excluding laws dealing with Provincial Council Elections) and report to Parliament and submit its proposals and recommendations in that regard, has appointed an expert panel to review 31 proposals

Seven people were killed after a student allegedly opened fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Thailand before dying by suicide, police said. Authorities alleged the attacker had earlier killed his grandparents.

A total of 508 individuals were arrested during island-wide police operations conducted yesterday (06) alone under the ongoing ‘A Nation United’ national anti-drug programme, aimed at eradicating narcotics from the country.

The Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution Draft Bill, which includes provisions to amend the retirement age of Supreme Court and Appeals Court judges along with other amendments, has been published in the official government gazette.

Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Ananda Wijepala says the government suspects that the incidents of unrest reported at several prisons across the country may have been the result of a planned conspiracy or acts of sabotage...

An individual has been arrested by the Cinnamon Gardens Police for allegedly filming the official residences and surrounding roads of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Chief Justice in Colombo.

Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Ananda Wijepala says that a special discussion on the prevailing situations in the country’s prisons will be held this evening (07), chaired by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

The Colombo High Court has ordered the release on bail of former Investment Promotion Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena after serving him with indictments in connection with an alleged bribery case.

The Sri Lanka Police have received complaints through the Interchange Unit of the Expressway Division that fraudulent messages resembling official notifications issued by the Sri Lanka Police regarding speed limit violations and other traffic-related offences...

The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has updated landslide early warnings issued for four districts.

Police have used tear gas to control the tense situation that has arisen at the Pallansena Open-Air Correctional Centre in Dalupotha, Negombo.

The Department of Meteorology has issued an “Amber” advisory for strong winds affecting the North-Central, North-Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and Southern provinces.

Teachers and children have been killed after a student opened fire at a secondary school in Thailand on Friday morning, in one of the country’s deadliest school shootings in recent years.

At least fourteen people have been hospitalised following an accident this morning (07), after a van carrying a group of factory workers plunged down a precipice in the Udugalakanda, Amaragedara area in Bulathsinhala.

One prison inmate who was hospitalized with injuries sustained during the unrest at the New Magazine Prison last night has succumbed to his injuries.

A tense situation has also been reported at the Pallansena Open-Air Correctional Center in Dalupotha, Negombo, according to Ada Derana reporter.