Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Namal Rajapaksa abstained from voting on the second reading of the Budget 2024, which was held in Parliament yesterday (21).
The Mawbima Janatha Party is not in the business of hoodwinking the people with manifestoes that will never be realised, but is a party that is led by strategic guiding principles that will benefit the entire nation, according to its leader Dilith Jayaweera.
Protests have taken place to demand justice for a Tamil youth who died in police custody, as relatives and friends gathered for his funeral at Vadukkodai.
Parliament is a place for lawmaking, not a place for playacting which anyone is free to do outside, said president Ranil Wickremesinghe today (22).
Two more skeletal remains were exhumed at Kokkutuduvai mass grave in Mullaitivu on the second day after excavations resumed following a more than two-month pause.
Colombo High Court Judge Adithya Patabendige yesterday (21) sentenced to 45 years Rigorous Imprisonment an accused who had been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl, who had gone to work as a domestic aid at a house in Rajagiriya.
SLPP parliamentarian S.B. Dissanayake said that if elected the sports minister, he would resolve issues surrounding cricket within one week in consultation with the ICC.
The navy arrested nine fishermen while catching sea leeches without a valid license off Aripppu in Mannar on 20 November.
Justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe met Veddah chieftain Uruwarige Wanni yesterday (21) to discuss recently-arisen issues of the indigenous community.
Two separate requests by the police to ban remembrances for dead LTTE members have been rejected by the Mallakam magistrate’s court.
