Around 5,000 incidents of crime against children are reported each year, said senior DIG in charge of western province Deshabandu Tennakoon.
The Election Commission has estimated a Rs. 31 billion expenditure for three national elections due next year, said its commissioner general Saman Sri Ratnayake.
Roshan Ranasinghe said yesterday (19) that he had no intention at the moment either to resign as the sports minister or to join the opposition.
Police are carrying out extensive investigations to expose all those involved in the substandard immunoglobulin scam, said its spokesman Nihal Talduwa.
A Rs. 170 million financial fraud had taken place at the international religious centre at Ambuluwawa, charged SJB MP Chaminda Wijesiri.
The Constitutional Council (CC) is reportedly divided over the issue of a service extension for police chief C.D. Wickramaratne, reports said.
The police constable who was stabbed with a sharp weapon allegedly by a teenage Buddhist monk in the Pallegama area of the Deniyaya Police Division on Thursday (16),
Opposition and Samagi Jana Balawegaya Leader Sajith Premadasa on 16v November said that President and Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilisation, and National Policies Ranil Wickremesinghe should take steps to abolish the civil rights of all individuals responsible for the country’s economic crisis through a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry (SPCoI).
Foreign travel bans have been clamped on another nine officials at the Ministry of Health, including Health Ministry Secretary Janaka Sri Chandraguptha, over the scam involving the import of 22,500 substandard immunoglobulin vials.
