Workers protest against privatization of Sri Lanka’s first tea plantation
Workers are campaigning against the privatization of Sri Lanka’s first tea plantation started by Scotland’s James Taylor in 1867.
Workers are campaigning against the privatization of Sri Lanka’s first tea plantation started by Scotland’s James Taylor in 1867.
An elderly man with physical disabilities was seen harassed by a police officer during a protest by a group of people against their exclusion as beneficiaries of ‘Aswesuma’ welfare scheme.
The Govenor of the Central Bank Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe assured the public that the existing Employee Provident Fund (EPF) would remain untouched, guaranteeing a minimum interest rate of 9% for the EPF.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given instructions to ensure the effective execution of the ‘Aswesuma’ social welfare initiative, aiming to leave no one behind.
Fears have risen among the war-affected Tamils as skeletons and human remains were found in what is suspected to be another mass grave when pipes for water supply were being laid in Mullaitivu district.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Air Vice Marshal Udeni Rajapaksa to the post of Air Force Commander.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Justice L.T.B. Dehideniya, a retired Supreme Court Judge, as the Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL).
The leading banking sector trade union urges the government to clarify its announcement of an unprecedentedly-long bank holiday to allow for a domestic debt restructuring (DDP).
The government has decided to release 30,000 acres of state-owned land in the Wanni to a private company for sugarcane cultivation.
A private member’s motion that seeks powers to the subject minister to reconvene the dissolved local government bodies has been gazetted.