MP Nimal Lanza has ruled out any need to dissolve parliament, claiming the government would not collapse even if the pro-Rajapaksa MPs left the government.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is considering the possibility of dissolving parliament if internal disruptions persist against the continuation of the government, said reliable sources.
Fifty-one divisional secretariats across the island will start issuing passports via online tomorrow (15), said public security minister Tiran Alles.
A team of doctors of the Sri Lanka Army surgically removed what is considered to be the largest and heaviest kidney stone from a patient on June 01.
None of the institutions responsible for national security had been consulted by the sectoral oversight committee in the preparation of its report that claims a privatization of Sri Lanka Telecom endangers national security, said the President’s Media Division.
As many as 10 CT scanners out of a total of 43 in the government hospital system have fully malfunctioned, said the association of government radiographers.
Minister of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Development, Jeevan Thondaman, appealed to his political colleagues to pursue inclusive and secular policies that placed human dignity and inclusion before division.
Privatization of the telecom industry does not pose a threat to national security, according to Professor Rohan Samarajiva, former Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC).
Ravi Karunanayake should be entrusted with the United National Party's (UNP) political campaigning to be groomed as the successor to Ranil Wickremesinghe, an academic has stressed.
The six Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MPs, who accepted cabinet and state ministerial portfolios will continue to function as per normal in the party in the future, said one of them, Lasantha Alagiyawanna.
