Sri Lanka owes more than Rs. 33 billion in bond charges to foreign lenders over its failure to properly utilize project loans, the auditor general’s report for 2021 reveals.
Health minister Keheliya Rambukwella claims the import of medicines under an Indian credit line is taking place with full cabinet approval and a high level of transparency.
The audio of a telephone conversation between SJB MP Buddhika Pathirana and Adarsha Karandana, who grabbed public attention over the Ashu Marasinghe incident, is now going viral in social media.
Relatives of victims of enforced disappearances in Mannar accuse the Office for Missing Persons (OMP) of failing to deliver justice and talking only about giving compensation, and demand its exit from the district.
The National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) has expressed deep concern over the Government's inability to fulfill certain basic and main objectives expected of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution although it has been two months since the Parliament passed it following great efforts by civil and political forces.
Vietnam today (28) sent home 151 Sri Lankan illegal immigrants who had been caught attempting to go to Canada by the sea route.
Laws will be introduced soon to replace imprisonment with house-arrest on account of minor offences, said justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
The JVP has won 62 per cent of the council seats in the Multipurpose Cooperative Society in Mahawa.
The Election Commission says the local government polls will be held before March 10, with its chairman Nimal Punchihewa saying that preliminary arrangements are already under way.
The many irregularities that have taken place in the Liberal Democratic Party since its takeover by K.S.T. Perera, a businessman crony of SLPP national organizer Basil Rajapaksa, are now coming to light.
