Sajith-Ranil reach agreement in telephone conversation
President Ranil Wickremesinghe agreed to postpone a House debate on the proposed Central Bank Act, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa told parliament today (09).
President Ranil Wickremesinghe agreed to postpone a House debate on the proposed Central Bank Act, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa told parliament today (09).
Around 350 employees of a factory at Halpe in Katana, owned by an Oman national, staged a protest against state minister Indika Anuruddha in front of his home and ancestral home nearby yesterday (08).
Several organizations, including a group of doctors, have complained to the Bribery Commission against a tender to purchase 2.5 million vials of the antibiotic cefuroxime.
Twenty-one ruling MPs have sought the appointment of a select committee to inquire into two incidents of foreign ships catching fire in Sri Lankan waters.
Australia has deported 41 Sri Lankan illegal immigrants, who had been arrested and kept at Christmas Island detention centre.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given directions for the initiation of “Aswesuma” welfare benefit payments, which are scheduled to commence from July 01, the President's Media Division (PMD) said.
India has extended a $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by one year, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Tuesday, giving the crisis-hit country a backup funds to pay for essential imports.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested by paramilitary officers outside the High Court in the capital Islamabad.
Three parents of erstwhile Tamil Tiger cadres have said they will fast until death if the Alambil Maaveerar ThuyilumI Illam (cemetery of martyrs) in Mullaitivu district is not released from the control of the military who are using the cemetery for various activities.
The main suspect in the suspicious death of a 16-year-old girl in Kalutara has been arrested.