President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Justice L.T.B. Dehideniya, a retired Supreme Court Judge, as the Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL).
The leading banking sector trade union urges the government to clarify its announcement of an unprecedentedly-long bank holiday to allow for a domestic debt restructuring (DDP).
The government has decided to release 30,000 acres of state-owned land in the Wanni to a private company for sugarcane cultivation.
A private member’s motion that seeks powers to the subject minister to reconvene the dissolved local government bodies has been gazetted.
An academic claims the government’s plan to restructure domestic debt will not affect any dealings between banks and the customers.
A SriLankan flight bound for Narita, Japan was forced to return to Katunayake last night (28) due to a technical fault.
The cabinet that met yesterday (28) afternoon under the chairmanship of president Ranil Wickremesinghe approved the domestic debt restructuring programme proposed by the finance ministry.
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has come in for sharp criticism in the social media for his comment when he mocked a questioner - “if you can’t speak in English, speak in Tamil, I understand Tamil" - thereby avoiding to answer a core question from Dr. Sockalingam Yogalingam, a Tamil based in London.
The NPP urges the public against acting hastily due to fears for their saving deposits as a result of any writing-off of domestic debt.
The heads of state-run Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. (ANCL) and Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) have resigned from their positions.
