Sudath Hewa Kandamby, one of the closest confidantes of the late minister Mangala Samaraweera when he was living, died in a road mishap yesterday (27).
Actor-politician Ranjan Ramanayake was turned away when arrived at the Katunayake airport last night (27) to leave for the United States where he is due to take part in a concert.
Families of missing persons yesterday (27) demonstrated in front of the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) in Colombo, demanding justice for their loved ones.
The Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) staged a protest in front of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) in Colombo yesterday evening (27).
The National Trade Unions Centre will give leadership to a people’s struggle for a dissolution of parliament and an expulsion of the incumbent from the presidency, said its leader K.D. Lalkantha.
The Senehasa Social Security Programme, a brainchild of Galle district secretary Shantha Weerasinghe, has received the fullest support of the NGO Secretariat.
The Court of Appeal today (27) dismissed a contempt of court case against Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera filed by TNA MP Shanthi Sri Skandarajah.
A consignment of medicines worth over Rs. 100 million donated by Ven. Nepalaye Maitri Thero, the founding President of the International Buddhist Society of Nepal in Lumbini was officially handed over to Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and President’s Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayake, at the Presidential Secretariat, this morning (27).
Justice and constitutional reforms minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has requested speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to appoint a parliamentary select committee to propose electoral reforms.
Former president Chandrika Kumaratunga says she had wanted for the past eight years or so to pardon the two men who made an attempt on her way back in 1999.
