Remaining printing work for LG polls to take 20 to 25 days
Government printer Gangani Liyanage has ruled out printing ballot papers for the local government polls without sufficient funds and police protection.
Government printer Gangani Liyanage has ruled out printing ballot papers for the local government polls without sufficient funds and police protection.
Police have sealed the office of Public Utilities Commission chairman Janaka Ratnayake following a court order.
The Election Commission is to be probed over its failure to inform parliament with regard to the holding of the local government polls.
The first group of Sri Lankan public sector accounting and auditing professionals participated in Sri Lanka Public Sector Accounting Standards 11-20 through a training by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) and its public sector wing, the Association of Public Finance Accountants of Sri Lanka (APFASL).
State Minister for Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon called for increased defence cooperation highlighting the need to look beyond Sri Lanka's borders.
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is to leave for Myanmar tonight (16) on a 10-day private visit.
The president is concerned by a Colombo-based foreign ambassador’s interference in the judiciary with regard to the local government polls, said government sources.
The government’s various attempts to postpone the local government polls may result in a people’s struggle similar to the one that expelled Gotabaya Rajapaksa from presidency, warned 43 Brigade leader Patali Champika Ranawaka.
A parliamentary select committee has approved handing over the International Arbitration Centre to the Colombo Port City.
Twenty officials from the United States led by a top diplomat met president Ranil Wickremesinghe this afternoon (15) and left the country immediately thereafter.