Estate workers are planning an indefinite strike to protest against noncompliance by their employers to an agreement to grant them a festival advance of Rs. 15,000 for Deepavali.
Fishermen of Mannar have demanded adequate supplies of fuel to carry out their livelihood and handed over a petition containing a set of other demands as well.
A Tamil political group, the EPRLF, alleges a continuation of the government’s animosity towards Tamils even amidst all the socioeconomic woes.
Youths and other citizens who waged a peaceful struggle for socioeconomic and political reforms should be credited with the success in the 22nd amendment to the constitution, says the Black Cap Movement.
The UNP-affiliate Lanka Jathika Estate Workers Union is to have a new leader in Sagala Ratnayaka.
The passage of the 22nd amendment to the constitution is a victory for all citizens of Sri Lanka who value democracy, said chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice Karu Jayasuriya.
A leading upcountry Tamil literary figure, Theliwatte Joseph, passed away late yesterday (21), aged 88 years.
A total of 44 MPs, from both ruling and opposition parties, were absent at the parliamentary vote last evening (21) on the draft 22nd amendment to the constitution.
A leading trade union urges the government to refrain from burdening the working class with further taxes, and proposes to reduce defence expenditure in the coming year among other measures instead.
Forty Tamil civilians murdered by Indian peacekeepers 35 years ago have been remembered in Jaffna.
