Extensive damage to houses due to WW2 bomb defused by STF
Several houses in the vicinity were extensively damaged when the STF defused a bomb believed to belong to the Second World War era in Dodangoda.
Several houses in the vicinity were extensively damaged when the STF defused a bomb believed to belong to the Second World War era in Dodangoda.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the supremacy of the law cannot be maintained without the police and an independent judiciary.
After fleeing the country nearly eight weeks ago in the face of strong public protests, former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home last night (02) to a welcome by a large gathering of MPs supporting him.
The crackdown on protesting students by law enforcement authorities has come in for strong criticism by parliamentarian Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka.
\The Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) says the country can come out of the present crisis if the government, private sector, farmers, expatriates and all other citizens get together and make a united effort for two to three years.
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has reached agreement to amend its constitution to empower the party chairman to expel any member found to have acted against SLFP policies and discipline.
Party authorities have barred certain members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) reformist group from speaking in parliament after 13 of its members sat in the opposition yesterday (31), reports say.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today (01) it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka to provide 2.9 billion US dollars over four years to help salvage the country from its economic crisis.
The United Nations has said the Sri Lankan government has taken steps in the right direction with regard to missing persons, even as there are calls to the international community to ensure justice for victims of enforced disappearances in both the north and the south.
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is a consequence of the corruption over two Rajapaksa regimes, said former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.