India’s Adani Green Energy has been issued provisional approvals for wind energy projects in Mannar and Pooneryn, said Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara yesterday (16).
A gazette notification issued by the Transport and Highways Ministry has removed the full-face helmet law, while making it compulsory to wear protective helmets for both the rider and the pillion.
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) hierarchy has decided not to use either the name or the picture of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the party’s propaganda activities any longer, according to the Nelum Mawatha office sources.
The decades-old curse of the Tamil people has taken the form of a rage of the Sinhalese to render the high-riding Rajapaksas invalid today, says a Tamil people’s organisation in the East.
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa wants to know the reason for the hunting down and imprisoning of trade union leaders like Joseph Stalin for staging peaceful protests, while Mahinda Rajapaksa lives freely despite his having fathered the prevailing violent repression.
Sri Lanka's recently passed Emergency Regulations, are giving police and military officers unprecedented powers to arrest and detain LGBT+ people, right activists said.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva has called for the formation of either an all-party or a multi-party government for a limited period in order for the building of a new country.
A group of Women’s rights activists has unequivocally condemned the declaration of emergency by the present government and the repression of protesters by labelling them as drug addicts, fascists, terrorists, and extremists among others.
While condemning the ongoing crackdown on the protestors, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has assured support for the all-party government (APC) proposed by the president.
A commemoration has taken place for more than 60 people, including infants and women, who were brutally massacred in Point Pedro, Jaffna by the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) 33 years ago.
