A fundamental rights petition filed by SJB’s Mujibur Rahman in connection with the local government polls will be taken up for hearing on February 16, the Supreme Court has decided.
The extraction of some 48,000 tonnes of scrap metal from the X-Press Pearl shipwreck will not be permitted without an import-export license, state minister of finance Ranjith Siyamabalapitiya said.
Electricity generation could get affected by any failure to make advance payments for the coal shipments that have been ordered, said the Lanka Coal Company.
Commissioner General of Election Saman Sri Ratnayake has filed an affidavit to the Supreme Court seeking orders to facilitate holding the local government polls.
A Sri Lankan woman living in Turkey remains unaccounted for following the earthquake that devastated the country, said Sri Lankan ambassador Hasanthi Dissanayake.
Pope Francis meets the journalists during an airborne press conference aboard the airplane directed to Rome, at the end of his pastoral visit to Congo and South Sudan, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. | Tiziana Fabi/AP Photo
The European Union (EU) has allocated 4 million Euro (approximately Rs. 1.5 billion) in grants for fertilizers, seeds, and training to the most vulnerable farmers, as a response to the agriculture and food security crisis in Sri Lanka.
A decision taken by the cabinet at its meeting yesterday (06) could come in the way of holding the local government polls, according to social media posts.
The fourth session of the ninth parliament will be ceremonially declared open tomorrow (08) by President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Holding the local government polls can be prevented either by an act passed by parliament or by the verdict of a case pending before courts, said local election monitor PAFFREL.
