Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Namal Rajapaksa has said that if anyone engages in illegal activities while citing the Rajapaksa name, a complaint should be lodged with the police without merely making allegations through the media.
Due to the foreign exchange crisis facing Sri Lanka, one of Sri Lanka's leading cable companies has informed its customers that it has decided to sell its products on a cash only basis.
Allegations are mounting that the Sri Lankan police are continuing to obstruct the rights of Tamils to commemorate the dead by citing Covid 19 health regulations and criminal law provisions.
A memorial event has been held in the North to commemorate the 26th death anniversary of school students that died in a Sri Lankan government airstrike on their school in Nagar Kovil, Jaffna in 1995.
A protest was held in New York yesterday (22) demanding justice for the victims of the Easter attack, as Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was set to address the United Nations General Assembly.
The protest was organised by the Sinhalese diaspora in the United States in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Carrying placards, the group demanded that the Sri Lankan government deliver justice to the victims of the Easter Sunday attack that took place in April 2019.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (22), President Rajapaksa assured that his Government is committed to ensuring that such violence never takes place in Sri Lanka again.
However, a growing trend of protests by Sri Lankans in countries or regions visited by Sri Lankan leaders has been observed in recent times. Similar protests by Sri Lankans were held in both Italy and France recently.
The Fire Service Department has launched an investigation into the failure to notify the relevant authorities of an alleged fire that broke out in a two-story luxury apartment complex in Slave Island recently.
Foreign investors have been shocked by an illegal land grab attempt where the Police had forcibly entered and taken into possession a property that had been legally transferred to a foreign investment firm by the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA), it is learnt.
An International Media Policy Council for the Protection of Human Rights in the field of Communications has been established with the participation of two organisations of Sri Lankan journalists in the country and abroad.