The Football House at Reid Avenue in Colombo is to remain closed today (26) as the Sports Ministry has yet to declare its stand with regard to the expiry of the office of Football Sri Lanka (FSL).
The state-owned Lanka CWE incurred a loss of around Rs. 6,000 million to the treasury from the sale of imported dhal and canned fish during the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime, lankadeepa.lk reports.
National organiser of the Socialist Youth Union (SYU) Eranga Gunasekara and two other arrestees have been granted bail by the Maligakanda magistrate’s court.
They were ordered released on sureties of Rs. 200,000 each.
The 79 others taken into custody during the SYU protest in Colombo on September 24 were released on police bail.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe left the island early today (26) on an official visit to Japan and the Philippines, the President’s Media Division said.
Ranil Wickremesinghe should end the insane repression he is unleashing in conceit with an improvised presidency he has obtained from parliament, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says.
The Liberal Youth Movement (LYM) says the declaration of several Colombo areas as high security zones (HSZs) is in violation of many fundamental rights.
A youth remains in critical condition after he was severely assaulted during the police onslaught against yesterday’s (24) protest by the Socialist Youth Union in Colombo.
The Liberal Democratic Movement (LDM) and three other like-minded groups have agreed to a common framework arrangement at a first round of talks.
A school in Jaffna has remembered 21 of its students who were among the victims of an Air Force bombing 27 years ago.
Leader of the Jathika Jana Balawegaya Anura Kumara Dissanayake has issued a stern warning to president Ranil Wickremesinghe for attempting to repress people’s uprisings in a barbaric manner.
