Exiled major drug traffickers are laying their hands on the dollars earned by expatriate Sri Lankan workers in an organised racket exposed by the Central Bank (CBSL) and the police.
The progress made in the 31 promises contained in the 2021 budget is six per cent only, said Verité Research in a report.
A coalition by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) together with leftist parties will certainly form a government soon, party chairman and ex-president Maithripala Sirisena said.
Britain will lead a new effort against human rights abuses and accountability in Sri Lanka with a new proposal to the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council that begins on September 12.
General Shavendra Silva, the Chief of Defense Staff, was conferred with the honorary title ‘Mahamanya Prathapadhi-keshwara’ by the Asgiri Maha Vihara.
A total of 171,497 students have qualified for university entrance as per results of the GCE advanced level examination 2021 that were released yesterday (28).
A group of Sri Lankans living in several European countries yesterday (28) staged a demonstration in front of the UN Human Rights Commission headquarters in Geneva against the Sri Lankan government.
Public security minister Tiran Alles is the person, other than president Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is presently opposed most by protestors involved in the struggle, an observation of social media shows.
The state-run Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has a new director general in creative communicator Ajantha Seneviratne.
The cabinet has approved a proposal by the president to appoint senior journalist Dinith Chinthaka Karunaratne as the Director General of Government Information.
