The Black Cap Movement (BCM), one of the parties to the ongoing struggle since its inception, has decided to leave the protest site at Galle Face in Colombo.
A police team in civilian clothing visited the media office of Xposure News and inquired about several of its journalists yesterday afternoon (27), said the Digital Journalists’ Collective (DJC).
The Supreme Court today (28) named former president Gotabaya Rajapkasa a respondent in fundamental rights petitions that seek an order for an investigation against the persons responsible for making the country and its people bankrupt.
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) will wipe out from politics the MPs who would raise their hands to repress the people, warned its education secretary Pubudu Jayagoda yesterday (27).
"Opaque" loans for “headline-grabbing” infrastructure projects, were among the factors behind the current crisis that has engulfed Sri Lanka, said Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Wednesday.
SJB lawmaker Eran Wickrmaratne speaking in the debate on the extension of the emergency regulation said that though the President declared the state of emergency to control the nation, an emergency law is really needed to save the people from hunger, ensure food security and supply gas and fuel including essential goods.
Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday approved a state of emergency that had been declared by President Ranil Wickremesinghe as his government cracks down on demonstrators it accuses of violence while trying to find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis.
The second session of the ninth parliament will be prorogued tonight (27), according to sources in parliament.
The prevailing situation will create a civil war of bloodshed in the country by December, warns President's Counsel Tirantha Walaliyadde.
Parliamentarian Premanath C. Dolawatte says his group of 10 parties will support the passage of the state of emergency at today’s (27) vote in parliament as law enforcement needs to be empowered to maintain peace.
