A communication authority for the regulation of social media is under consideration, said justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
Police are being blamed for the acquittal of the five suspects in the smuggling of 196 kgs of heroin four years ago.
A government proposal to handover the distribution of fertilizer to the private sector could lead to farmers becoming slaves of companies, a farming leader in the Wanni has warned.
The local government polls is unlikely to be held on April 25, said state minister of local government Janaka Wakkumbura.
Road accidents have claimed 564 lives so far this year, said police spokesman SSP Nihal Talduwa.
The G.C.E. ordinary level examination 2023 has been postponed by two weeks, and will now start on May 29, announced the Examinations Department.
The much delayed project of installing e-gates at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) as one of the solutions to passenger congestion is still to make any headway due to procurement irregularities, airport and aviation sources revealed.
Through funding from the European Union (EU), a shipment of 3,820 tonnes of urea fertiliser procured by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture today, for distribution among smallholder paddy farmers and paddy seed farmers in Sri Lanka.
Political crossovers are very likely in the two weeks that follows the New Year, said Prof. Channa Jayasumana of the Freedom People’s Congress.
The government has given permission to three foreign oil companies to sell fuel at retail prices below the CPC rates.
