There will be hunger and massive unemployment somewhere in the middle of next year if Sri Lanka does not resolve its foreign exchange crisis, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warned.
The Chinese Embassy in Colombo has suspended a private hospital from its list of designated hospitals for PCR and IgM antibody tests.
The Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has sought the Supreme Court Registrar’s leave for an international observer representing the IPU to follow remotely the hearing on the Fundamental Rights petition filed on behalf of the Leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) and Wanni District parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen.
Anusha Palpita, a senior officer in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, has been appointed as the new Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Policies and Plan Implementation.
The UN has been urged to intervene to save Sri Lanka from the dangerous situation it is in as a consequence of intensifying human rights violations committed by the growing military control in the country.
The Ragama Police on Sunday (11) arrested a doctor for snapping photographs of a female doctor while she was changing clothes at her official residence.
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has expressed grave concern over the spate of arrests and detention of peaceful protesters by the Sri Lanka Police.
A key eyewitness in the Welikada prison massacre, which took place when the current president was serving as the defence secretary, has received death threats once again, says the leading prisoner rights advocacy group in the country.
Police officers are abusing quarantine regulations issued by the Director General of Health Services in order to suppress the people's freedom of expression instead of using it to control the pandemic, the chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) Karu Jayasuriya charged.
Former finance minister Mangala Samaraweera says that most major banks in Sri Lanka have stopped issuing letters of credit for the importation of goods.
