Former speaker Karu Jayasuriya has urged President Goatabaya Rajapaksa to grant a presidential pardon to Ranjan Ramanayake who was sentenced to a four-year rigorous imprisonment over the contempt of court case by the Supreme Court.
The son of State Minister Arundika Fernando has been arrested over the assault on a group of students of the Kelaniya University's Faculty of Medicine in Ragama.
A camp to provide artificial limbs was jointly inaugurated today (02), by Minister Chamal Rajapaksa, Chair of the India-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Association and High Commissioner of India to Colombo Gopal Baglay at the Ranaviru Seva Authority premises in Gampaha.
A customer buying vegetables at a market near Colombo, Sri Lanka. PHOTO: AFP
The United National Party completed their submissions challenging the Government’s proposed Goods and Service Tax bill in the Supreme Court on Monday (31).
For many years now, one of the most polarizing phrases in Sri Lanka has been the two words, human rights.
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry is now interfering into the fuel procurement process making recommendations to eliminate prospective bidders in favour of a few selected international suppliers by awarding them the gasoline term tenders causing millions of dollar loss for state coffers.
A school girl of the Dhammissara National School of Naththandiya has succumbed to Covid-19 today (30).
Sri Lankan farmers have rejected a compensation offer and guaranteed purchase price for paddy for being inadequate and discriminatory.
The United National Party (UNP) is challenging the legitimacy of the recently proposed GST bill, claiming it overrides the sovereignty of the parliament.
