The reigning Mrs. World, Caroline Jurie, has resigned her title after she was involved in a controversy at the Mrs. Sri Lanka pageant held at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre recently.
The Sri Lanka government is on an unprecedented move to acquit criminals and fraudsters through a resolution in Parliament, former State Minister of Finance and SJB lawmaker Eran Wickramaratne said.
Sri Lanka will commence the inoculation of the second dose of the AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine from the first week of May, State Minister of Pharmaceutical Production, Supply, and Regulation Prof. Channa Jayasumana said.
Bhagya Abeyratne, a young woman from Godakawela, became a household name overnight when she spoke with passion and sincere devastation about the destruction of the Sinharaja rainforest that she saw with her own eyes.
A senior official of the Prime Minister's Media Division rejected news reports which claimed that Ministers Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila had walked out of the party leaders meeting held under the patronage of Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa today (19).
At least 41 Sri Lankan women, the majority of whom are migrant domestic workers, have spent months on end arbitrarily detained at a deportation center in Saudi Arabia, awaiting repatriation to their home country, Amnesty International said.
The Criminal Justice Commissions (CJC) Act, No. 14 of 1972, marked the beginning of the collapse of Sri Lanka’s criminal justice system. The process that started then, gradually expanded further and further, and today, the criminal justice system in Sri Lanka is virtually dysfunctional.
SLPP MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in a phone call on Friday (16) morning, had berated him in a demeaning and threatening manner.
It is reported that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has threatened SLPP MP Wijeydasa Rajapakse PC, over the phone today (16).
The Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris rushed to the Abayaramaya Temple yesterday evening (15) after SLPP MP Wijeydasa Rajapakshe PC, slammed the government over the Port City Economic Commission Bill at a press briefing held at the Abayaramaya Temple on Thursday.
