Confidential letter on 1989 Matale disappearances made public
Four UN affiliate agencies have sent a confidential letter to president Ranil Wickremesinghe with regard to enforced disappearances in Matale during the JVP uprising in the late 1990s.
Four UN affiliate agencies have sent a confidential letter to president Ranil Wickremesinghe with regard to enforced disappearances in Matale during the JVP uprising in the late 1990s.
Around five million kgs of rice had gone missing from Polonnaruwa and Puttalam districts about 18 months ago, according to farmers’ trade union chief Namal Karunaratne.
State minister of finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya is in receipt of a preliminary report by the excise commissioner general into a racket of fake stickers on liquor bottles.
Deputy director of the Colombo National Hospital Dr. Rukshan Bellana was freed from five hours of detention by hospital workers yesterday afternoon (19), police said.
The Supreme Court has extended an injunction against the accepting of nominations for the Kalmunai Urban Council at the local government polls until the conclusion of the hearing of a related FR petition.
Parliament this evening (19) passed the Regulation of Election Expenditure bill with a majority of 61 votes.
Pavithra Wanniarachchi and Jeevan Thondaman took oaths today (19) as cabinet ministers.
The struggle continues to rebuild the country from the abyss it has fallen into, says a social media activist Viraj Konara.
Erasmus+ Programme is organizing a three-day training workshop on opportunities and range of options for higher education institutions, public and private bodies from Sri Lanka.
A member of the Election Commission, S.B. Divaratne, says an anonymous telephone caller threatened him with death yesterday (18) afternoon.