President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite a programme to provide welfare benefits to 3.1 million low-income families.
A new resolution titled promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka was adopted today, was adopted by majority vote yesterday (06) at the 51st regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe should implement his repeated assurances to annul the 20th amendment to the constitution like “words inscribed in stone”, said former speaker Karu Jayasuriya.
BANGKOK, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former policeman killed 34 people on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care centre in Thailand, with media reporting the gunman later shot and killed himself.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for an end to past rivalries and to join a common effort to overcome Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in the recent past.
Newly-elected chairman of the Planters Association Senaka Alawattegama has called for a wage reform towards a productivity-linked wage model as the only “practical way forward.”
The opposition wants to get hold of all parliamentary committees, claims director general of community affairs at the presidential secretariat Rajith Keerth Tennakoon.
An upcountry political party believes that unity among estate workers amidst the country’s crisis could help them defeat estate companies and the government.
SLPP MP Professor Ranjith Bandara has been appointed as the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has transferred three state institutions that were under him to the Ministry of Public Security of Tiran Alles by an extraordinary gazette.
