The General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union, Joseph Stalin says that the strike conducted by the teachers' unions has proven to be 98% successful.
UNP is to be handed over to a youthful team, which will take the party and the nation to a new era just like its founder leader late Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake did, Party Leader cum Member of Parliament Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday (20).
The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced an additional USD 2.5 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance for Sri Lanka.
Chairman of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) Dr Prasanna Gunasena and Managing Director Lalith Jayakody have resigned from their posts, government sources said.
Unilever Sri Lanka is being accused of committing a tax fraud of over Rs. 570 million in importing raw materials for its products, according to sources at the Customs Department.
Daham Sirisena, the son of former President and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) leader Maithripala Sirisena, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Youth Front in the Polonnaruwa electorate.
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarian Tissa Kuttiarachchi says that Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) General Secretary Joseph Stalin should be punished using mediveal torture methods.
Sri Lankan fishermen on Sunday (17) launched a protest boat rally in the northern seas to demand actions to stop the alleged poaching incidents by Indian fishermen in the country’s territorial waters.
Bandula Warnapura, who led Sri Lanka in their maiden Test, passed away on Monday (October 18) while receiving treatment in a private hospital. The 68-year-old played four Tests and 12 ODIs for his country.
Recalling President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's speech on the occasion of the 72nd Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Army, the Chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) Karu Jayasuriya says that the time has arrived for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to deliver on his promises.
