With Tiran’s agreement, Wickramaratne gets another extension
C.D. Wickramaratne has been given a second extension to function as the police chief for another three months.
C.D. Wickramaratne has been given a second extension to function as the police chief for another three months.
A group of youths involved in the ‘Aragalaya’ has called for a new social consensus on reforms to prevent a defeat for the people’s victory gained a year ago.
The National Institute of Education has a new director general in Prof. Prasad Sethunga.
Police are investigating a video in circulation in social media of an incident in which a man is seen immersing a small boy about two years of age in a water basin and torturing him.
Several more taxes are to be introduced in order to boost state revenue, said government sources.
President Ranil Wickrmesinghe and public security minister Tiran Alles meet this afternoon (09) to finalize a decision on the post of police chief that remains vacant for 14 days now, said a spokesman for the Presidential Secretariat.
The Tax Appeals Commission will be annulled due to an inefficient tax appealing process, said justice minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe.
The United People’s Party (UPP) says no citizen has the right to take the law into own hands and enforce punishment to any offender outside the established institutions.
The government has planned a proposal to vest the MPs of the respective areas with the duties and responsibilities of the provincial ministries in order to reactivate the functions of the provincial councils (PCs) that remain inactive since 2017, ‘Deshaya’ newspaper reports.
Police have been ordered to arrest the persons who stripped a monk and two women and beat them with clubs at a temple at Rassapana in Nawagamuwa.