President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (17) afternoon reinstated C.D. Wickramaratne as the police chief less than an hour after the Constitutional Council scrapped his service extension.

A Sri Lankan woman was confirmed dead yesterday (17) after she was reported missing in Israel following the Hamas militant attack 10 days earlier.

The Supreme Court yesterday (17) granted leave to proceed with a fundamental rights petition filed by a man for detaining him for three days in prison custody despite the Court of Appeal having ordered his release from the case.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is on an official four-day trip to China, led a delegation to Huawei’s research and development centre in Beijing today (17).

Justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said he was under pressure from no one when he submitted a cabinet bill for a change in the election system.

A protest took place in front of the UN office in Colombo yesterday afternoon (16) against the killing of civilians in the war between Israel and Hamas militants in Palestine.

The U.S. Embassy in Colombo, together with the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), brought together
scholars from across the Indo-Pacific on Monday, October 16 for the conference “Ocean Security: South Asia and the Indian Ocean.”

President Ranil Wickremesinghe extended an invitation to Chinese entrepreneurs, encouraging them to view Sri Lanka as a strategic hub for emerging green and digital economic ventures, highlighting the nation’s significant advancements in this domain.

In a remarkable incident, a patient who was going through an ‘awake brain surgery’ was able to remain awake and fully conscious and even created a drawing.

Buddhi Keerthisena, the veteran film producer and businessman best known as founder of Buddhi Batik, has passed away, aged 83.