Health service, a terrorizer of the public - Sajith
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has lamented a ruined condition of the health service, saying that it has now become a terrorizer of the
public.
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has lamented a ruined condition of the health service, saying that it has now become a terrorizer of the
public.
The Sri Lankan Government has reportedly refused to grant a visa to Canadian MP Gary Anandasangaree.
Education minister Susil Premjayanth has stressed the need to properly manage the human resources to emerge victorious in professional life in a world in which artificial intelligence is the norm and knowledge has no bounds.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will introduce amendments to ensure dividends to members from the EPF introduced in 1958 by T.B. Illangaratne, said party MP Dr. Harsha de Silva.
A mere 31,000 persons out of a total of 500,000 persons registered for personal income tax payments make their due payments, said Mahindananda Aluthgamage, chairman of the sectoral oversight committee on national economic and physical plan.
A Video Bronchoscope and Intubation System donated by Senior Counsel Ajith Perera was handed over to Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe to be given to the Walasmulla base hospital.
Rasmus Paludan burning the Quran during an anti-Islam demonstration in Sweden. Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images
A stock of essential medicines worth USD 39.6 million was donated to the Ministry of Health through US-based Healthline Lanka with support from Catholic Medical Mission Board.
The government has spent Rs. 144 billion on welfare benefits last year and as per the agreements with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Sri Lanka had agreed to spend a minimum of Rs. 187 billion annually on welfare benefits, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said.
SJB lawmaker Eran Wickramaratne said that the public and the private sector workforce who are contributors to the EPF and ETF funds are badly affected by the government’s Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDR) programme, whilst the affluent and their cronies are allowed to get windfall gains within a short period.