Engaging in prostitution or running a brothel are against the country’s laws, and cannot be allowed merely because a group of women engaged in prostitution hold media briefings, says the police headquarters.

The new government is to investigate a deputy editor of a national newspaper who had obtained bank loans to produce films and charged exorbitant rates for reality shows during the previous Rajapaksa regime.

A group of MPs underwent firearms training at the police STF camp at Katukurunda recently.

Colombo additional magistrate Amila Ariyaratne says he has no powers to grant bail to Tamil prisoners arrested under the PTA without advice by the attorney general to do so.

It is now revealed that the confession said to be Dunesh Priyashantha's, was a version of the CID officers.