Fulfilling a longstanding aspiration of the nation, 10,000 freehold titles were awarded to farmers as part of the first phase of the Urumaya program held in Dambulla yesterday (05).
In what is considered a significant change in India’s foreign policy towards Sri Lanka, the leader of the People’s Liberation Front-Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has been invited to New Delhi for talks.
A paper is to be presented to the cabinet today (05) to obtain legal status for calling for expressions of interest for the commercial cultivation of cannabis.
The FSP has demanded Rs. 500 million in damages from the editor of ‘Dinamina’ and its publisher Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.
At least 900 children are diagnosed with cancer each year, which is twice the figure reported previously,
Keheliya Rambukwella is due to resign from his environment portfolio today (05), said government sources.
Four university students were arrested yesterday (04) in Kilinochchi, as the north and the east observed a ‘black day’ of independence.
A no-confidence motion will have to be brought against Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena,
A delegation of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist communist party which led an anti-India campaign in 1987-90 against the Indo-Lanka Accord, will today (05) start on an official visit to India.
Leader of the United Republic Party Patali Champika Ranawaka has called for a new independence struggle to reestablish sovereignty.
