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.
Welcoming President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's invitation to the Tamil diaspora to join in a dialogue to resolve issues as a progressive move, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) however questioned the government's true motives behind this move when organisations such as the GTF were proscribed earlier this year.
The two small scale businessmen who were arrested by the Police even as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa claimed there is no impediment to mass protests in the country, have now been granted bail by the Courts.
Former Governor of Uva, Southern and Central Provinces Rajitha Keerthi Tennekoon claims there are plans underway to remove the Deputy Governor in charge of Foreign Exchange at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).