President condemns burning of Quran in Sweden
Rasmus Paludan burning the Quran during an anti-Islam demonstration in Sweden. Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images
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.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe's goal is not to pass the task of reconciliation in Sri Lanka to the next generation but to solve it now, President's Secretary Saman Ekanayake said.
Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" whose dark, provocative novels delved into the enigma of the human condition, has died, a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his native city of Brno said on Wednesday. He was 94.
A girl, aged 21, has died after being given two vaccines for a stomach ailment at Peradeniya Hospital.
One-third of the cases pending before high courts are on child abuse and rape of women, said justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
Police are investigating to arrest a catholic priest in Marawila, who is in hiding after having allegedly sexually abused a schoolboy for nearly a year.
Plantation workers who are fighting for their rights are now in danger of losing their estate houses as well.