C.D. Wickramaratne took everything away excepting furniture from the office of the Inspector General of Police on June 27, a day after he retired as the police chief, lankadeepa.lk reports.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (Ceypetco) has revised fuel prices with effect from midnight on Friday (June 30).
The state-run Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) is presently without a chairman and a director general.
Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara, today urged foreign employment seekers not to get duped by racketeers who promise lucrative foreign employment while indicating that they are closely connected to him, one of his family members or personal staff.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has decided to oppose domestic debt restructuring (DDR) as the government has laid its hands on the EPF and the share market, said its media spokesman S.M. Marikkar.
Legal professionals have launched an initiative to help women fined by courts over minor offences.
Trade Unions (TU) have demanded a public consultation regarding the proposed amendment to the nation’s labour law.
Workers are campaigning against the privatization of Sri Lanka’s first tea plantation started by Scotland’s James Taylor in 1867.
An elderly man with physical disabilities was seen harassed by a police officer during a protest by a group of people against their exclusion as beneficiaries of ‘Aswesuma’ welfare scheme.
The Govenor of the Central Bank Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe assured the public that the existing Employee Provident Fund (EPF) would remain untouched, guaranteeing a minimum interest rate of 9% for the EPF.
