Postponing LG polls: President says he doesn’t regret decision
While acknowledging that postponing the Local Government elections is a violation of the citizens' basic rights, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said he does not regret this decision.
While acknowledging that postponing the Local Government elections is a violation of the citizens' basic rights, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said he does not regret this decision.
The presidential candidate of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance, entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera has voiced his strong disapproval to the government’s plan to sell shares of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), calling it a ‘significant mistake’.
Sri Lanka’s Nandalal Weerasinghe is among the Central Bankers earning an A grade in the Global Finance Central Banker Report Cards 2024, according to gfmag.com.
The Presidential Candidate of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Namal Rajapaksa asserts that police and land powers will not be devolved to the Provincial Councils under his governance.
Chairman of the Expert Committee on Public Service Salary Disparities, Udaya R. Seneviratne said that the basic salary of public service employees will be increased by a minimum of 24% for primary-level service categories.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya and Opposition Leader and Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said that in the programme to create a force of one million entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ruled that the President, as the Minister of Finance, and then members of the Election Commission have violated the fundamental rights of the people through the postponement of the 2023 Local Government Elections.
The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha visited Mahatma Gandhi International Centre (MGIC), Matale constructed under Indian grant assistance in 2015 on 20 August and inaugurated an Indian Gallery at the Centre.
War-affected Tamil mothers in all five districts of Northern Sri Lanka have opposed the closure of the island nation’s latest found mass grave in the coastal district of Mullaitivu which bore the brunt of the brutality during the final phase of the war which came to a bloody end in May 2009.
In the wake of criticism against their previous selection of only six Presidential candidates for a public debate,