Leader of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) Mano Ganesan has called on the UK to support hill-country Tamils to get more involved in the Sri Lankan national polity.
The printing of ballot papers for the local government polls has been put off indefinitely, news1st.lk reported.
Trade unions are staging a countrywide one-day strike tomorrow (01), which they have declared as a day of national protest against the government tax policy.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is investigating information it has received with regard to an attempt to be made on the life of president Ranil Wickremesinghe within two weeks, nethnews.lk reports.
A fundamental rights petition filed by the SJB seeking an order preventing the Treasury secretary from withholding funds for the local government polls will be heard again on March 03.
Holding processions is completely prohibited with an election being announced, said police spokesman Nihal Thalduwa in reference to the protest organized by the National People’s Power in Colombo.
A man has succumbed to the injuries he had suffered in the water cannon and teargas fire by the police on a protest by the National People’s Power in Colombo yesterday (26).
A court has once again held the Army accountable for all those who had surrendered during the final stage of the war.
An audit report has questioned the productiveness of around Rs. 8,000 million paid to university lecturers as academic allowances in the past 10 years, lankadeepa.lk reports.
Environment Minister Naseer Ahamed mooted the idea of establishing a Biosphere Reserve Bank, a “first-of-its-kind international development bank” at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2023 held in India recently.
