No ministerial positions for SLPP seniors!
Ministerial hopeful SLPP seniors cannot be given positions for the present, the government has informed them officially.
Ministerial hopeful SLPP seniors cannot be given positions for the present, the government has informed them officially.
There is a proposal for the annulment of the nominations for the local government polls, said state minister of local government Janaka Wakkumbura.
Former minister Navin Dissanayake is due to be sworn-in as governor of the Sabaragamuwa province in the coming week.
The government has abandoned plans to hold snap presidential polls, ‘Deshaya’ reports.
Justice is yet to be ensured for the government MPs whose properties were set ablaze in May last year, according to a group of SLPP MPs.
A Health Ministry official is delaying 400 internship appointments in order to get his daughter included in the list, government doctors allege.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe will tour India on July 20 for talks with premier Narendra Modi and other top Indian political figures, political sources said.
Cabinet approval will be sought for a trial project on cannabis cultivation, said state minister Dilum Amunugama.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Eran Wickramaratne has submitted a private members bill to amend the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act, No 14 of 2002 to transfer the powers vested in the minister of finance to parliament.
Opposition lawmaker Harsha de Silva revealed in Parliament that around 7 million Sri Lankans currently live in poverty, shedding light on the alarming state of poverty in the country.