Loan for private university students raised
An interest-free loan for students of private universities is to be raised to Rs. one million, said aruna.lk.
An interest-free loan for students of private universities is to be raised to Rs. one million, said aruna.lk.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has affirmed the inevitability of future Presidential elections, stating that financial provisions for this purpose have already been allocated.
Uncertainty hangs around the proposed debate between the leaders of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and the National People's Power (NPP) due to various tugs-of-war between the two parties.
More than 175 fisher families in a village in Mullaitivu have been affected after a landowner fenced off his beachfront land across a footpath that had been used for more than 50 years.
Period poverty would have had a more reasonable solution had health been made a basic right in the constitution, said opposition leader Sajith Premadasa.
The United National Party's (UNP) stand is different to the call by its general secretary Palitha Range Bandara that both the president and the current parliament should get their terms extended by two years, said UNP leader for Colombo Ravi Karunanayake.
Tamils in the north have strongly objected to a leading footwear manufacturer for having used a design with their national flower.
The International Human Rights Global Mission organized a peace conference at the BMICH in Colombo recently.
The National People’s Power (NPP) has filed a fundamental rights petition before the Supreme Court requesting that the President’s Secretary and a group be issued orders not to approve the implementation of projects that are advantageous to the political parties of the ruling party during the upcoming elections and to act by the letter issued by the Election Commission in this regard.
Dr. Sarath Amunugama, a former minister, has tendered his resignation as chairman of the Mawbima Janatha Party (MJP) led by Dilith Jayaweera.