Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) planning to work in collaboration with the Rajapaksa government have lost their hopes after the government had taken steps to draft legislations to monitor NGOs’ finances.
News circulating on social media stating that former minister Mangala Samaraweera has passed away are false, hospital sources confirmed.
Police Scotland has put a controversial scheme to train officers in Sri Lanka on hold amid criticism from global watchdogs, the Times UK reported.
Heavily criticizing Sri Lanka government’s new legislation under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the United Nations has urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to withdraw the new regulations.
The Right to Information Commission of Sri Lanka has ordered Parliament to reveal the number of Members of Parliament (MPs) who have criminal charges against them.
Leading public and private sector trade unions allege that the government is on a which hunt to imprison prominent trade union and mass organisation leaders, who protest in a bid to defeat the government’s attempts to militarise education, through the police.
A protest had been staged in Negombo against the militarisation of the entire country, particularly in the North and East.
Sri Lanka’s economic woes cannot be solved without addressing the fundamental issues plaguing the country's economy, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Eran Wickramaratne said.
Sri Lanka paid a US$1 billion bond last week, but the alarming state of its finances suggests it may have been just another step towards its first sovereign default.
