SLFP general secretary Dayasiri Jayasekara and three other party strongmen have sent a strongly-worded letter to their leader Maithripala Sirisena,
Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has been appointed as leader of the SLPP breakaway faction of MPs masterminded by Nimal Lanza.
With no funds being allotted by the Treasury, the Sri Lanka Law College is faced with a severe financial crisis, said its principal Dr. Athula Pathinayake.
The president and the government are of the stand that all powers barring the control over land and
Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh's two-day visit to Sri Lanka beginning September 2 has been deferred due to unavoidable circumstances, a government statement said on Friday night.
Freelance Tamil journalists Antony Christopher Christiraj (left), Selvakumar Nilanthan (center), and Valasingham Krishnakumar (right), were held by a mob for five hours on August 22, 2023. (Photo : Valasingham Krishnakumar)
The Court of Appeal has issued interim orders as sought by the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) against the governor of the eastern province Senthil Thondaman in a case that challenges his orders to prevent proposed exploration for mineral sand in Trincomalee district.
Defence Minister of India, Shri Rajnath Singh is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on 02-03 September, 2023 to review bilateral defence ties.
Despite the Right to Information (RTI) Act’s proactive disclosure requirement, only 18% and 25% of information required to be disclosed on large-scale infrastructure projects were proactively disclosed online in 2022 and 2023 respectively, according to Verité Research.
Hundreds of trade unionists and civil society activists staged a protest demonstration in Colombo this week demanding the Central Bank to totally exempt the superannuation funds from the domestic debt optimization (DDO) programme.
