The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) accuses the government of committing a massive scam by paying high dividends on bank bonds amid an economic crisis while swindling pension funds of the working people.
The peaceful Muslim community never commemorates the terrorists who carried out the Easter Sunday terror attacks, said SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem.
A Tamil MP had taken a motorcade to remember LTTE’s Rasiah Parthipan alias Thileepan to an area inhabited by the Sinhalese without permission from the police to create a clash between the two communities, said east governor Senthil Thondaman.
SJB MP Rohini Kaviratne moved a proposal in parliament yesterday (19) for the postponement of the GCE advanced level examination for 2023.
A court in Vavuniya has rejected a request by the police to prohibit a motorcade by Tamils to remember an LTTE member who died during a hunger strike 36 years ago.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe met USAID Administrator, Samantha Power, on the side-lines of the UNGA in New York yesterday (19).
Rs. 30 billion or 100 million US dollars of public money had been paid to a particular supplier, from whom medicines had been purchased at very high prices for several years, said the FSP.
A team from UK’s Channel 4 television, led by its chief, is now in Geneva, Switzerland, where the 54th session of the United Nations general assembly is in progress, reports social activist Shehan Malaka Gamage.
Relatives and friends have remembered 24 Tamil civilians of Mullaitivu who were killed in an Air Force strike 24 years ago.
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has asked the government to conduct an impartial international investigation into the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
