The government gave a very bad precedent by hastily passing an act to regulate election expenditure to spoil a good move, said MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.
The indigenous Veddah community has stressed the need to guarantee their traditional rights by the law.
SJB’s Mujibur Rahman quitted his parliamentary seat this morning (20) in order to be the party’s mayoral candidate for Colombo.
The Education level of 56% of migrant workers are only up to G. C. E. Ordinary Level – the Kurunegala Center for Human Rights and Community Development (CHRCD) revealed based on a survey conducted on the Migrant Health Policy and the Migrant Service Agreement.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited the Muslim community to join hands with the Social Justice Commission to find solutions for the issues faced by them and urged all communities to unite as true Sri Lankans as the country celebrates its 75th Anniversary of Independence this year.
India will encourage greater investments in Sri Lanka’s economy, especially in areas of energy, tourism and infrastructure, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday, as he expressed India’s solidarity with the debt-ridden Island nation during its “difficult moments”.
Four UN affiliate agencies have sent a confidential letter to president Ranil Wickremesinghe with regard to enforced disappearances in Matale during the JVP uprising in the late 1990s.
Around five million kgs of rice had gone missing from Polonnaruwa and Puttalam districts about 18 months ago, according to farmers’ trade union chief Namal Karunaratne.
State minister of finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya is in receipt of a preliminary report by the excise commissioner general into a racket of fake stickers on liquor bottles.
Deputy director of the Colombo National Hospital Dr. Rukshan Bellana was freed from five hours of detention by hospital workers yesterday afternoon (19), police said.
