SLFP appoints Sarath Ekanayake as acting general secretary
The SLFP has appointed Sarath Ekanayake, a former central province chief minister, as acting general secretary of the party.
The SLFP has appointed Sarath Ekanayake, a former central province chief minister, as acting general secretary of the party.
Expatriate Sri Lankans in Victoria, Australia staged a protest yesterday (05) to demand local government elections take place back home.
COPE has found 32 state-owned entities to be the worst corrupt loss-makers out of a total of 420 institutions, said MP Gamini Waleboda.
The National People's Power (NPP) will profit from a further postponement of the local government polls as the party has the highest acceptance among the voters, said its leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
The Supreme Court has treated the president in kind after he threatened people’s representatives to “shut up and sit down,” said opposition leader Sajith Premadasa.
Sri Lankan foreign minister Ali Sabry has said that his government plans to work more closely with India to bolster economic recovery, including a proposal for payments in national currencies.
Environment Minister Naseer Ahamed met with his Indian counterpart Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on the side-lines of the World Sustainable Development Summit held in New Delhi, India last week.
Police have been accused of torturing a Tamil writer to force a confession out of him as he was kept more than 16 years in detention under the PTA.
The Mullaitivu magistrate’s court has ordered state officials to report reasons for their disregard to two previous orders that ban new constructions in an archaeological site in the Wanni.
Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown has spiralled into a full-blown hunger crisis, with half of the families in the island nation forced to reduce the amount they feed their children, according to a child rights charity.