Days after the Muslims made an appeal to the visiting Pakistan leader, uncertainty looms over Sri Lanka as it has put on hold the reversal of a controversial mandatory order to cremate the bodies of all those who died of Covid-19.
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has decided to reject the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to investigate and inquire into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, a decision that was taken on Thursday (25) after the SLFP Executive Committee had met at the party headquarters in Colombo.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka has decided to launch a series of island-wide protests seeking justice for the victims of the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
The General Secretary of the 'Nava Sinhala Ravaya' organisation, Ven. Magalakande Sudaththa Thero said that the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to probe the Easter attacks has failed to institute charges against the two officials of the Attorney General's Department who had concealed information pertaining to Zahran Hashim.
The government recently announced that Cabinet approval has been granted to award a contract to a Chinese company to set up hybrid wind and solar energy projects on three Sri Lankan islands off the northern Jaffna peninsula.
Minister of Justice Ali Sabry PC said that he doesn't intend to amend or repeal the Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) raised the issue of Sri Lanka’s mandatory cremations of COVID-19 victims at the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Tuesday.
If the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) takes a tough decision against Sri Lanka, it will be people of this country who will suffer and not be the rulers or the politicians of this country and as such,the whole country should be united and be reconciled, the Chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice Karu Jayasuriya said.
Pro-government monks have stressed the need to consolidate political power around President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
