The Health Ministry’s medical supplies division is not receiving supplies following the arrest of four of its top officials.
Health authorities are providing youth with free condoms after finding a high prevalence of HIV positive cases among them.
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa is now attempting to strip ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa of his civic rights after pro-LTTE and other groups failed to do so, charged MP Namal Rajapaksa.
In a survey commissioned by Verité Research, 56% of those who said they knew about the Online Safety Bill also said it will reduce the freedom of using social media.
The proposed hike in the Cost-of-Living (COL) allowance for public servants and pensioners will be effective from January, a spokesman for the Government said yesterday (26).
The 2022 annual auditor general report claimed that 2,367 children have been enrolled in popular schools outside the formal system for nearly three years.
Political parties on ethnic or religious lines established to gain narrow political advantage by sowing racism should be banned, labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said.
The country is built not for us but for future generations. The best way for the opposition to gain power is to unite with the government, said President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
No decision has been taken as yet to fill the vacant position of the inspector general of police, said sources at the Presidential Secretariat.
Four policemen including a sub-inspector of the Vaddukoddai police station have been arrested in Jaffna after the local Magistrate’s order in the murder of a Tamil youth.
