The cabinet has approved granting a bonanza package for migrant workers who send remittances through legal means.

Justice and constitutional reforms minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has asked Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to appoint a parliamentary select committee to inquire into TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s statement in Parliament on the Supreme Court’s verdict on the 21st amendment to the constitution.

Lawyers for Wimal Weerawansa yesterday (26) raised objections challenging the maintainability of the corruption case filed against the MP by the Bribery Commission.

Colombo additional magistrate Harshana Kekunawala has granted bail to former Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal.

The government is without a methodology to identify if there are members of parliament who are dual citizenship holders, admitted cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to increase the weekly fuel quota of 05 litres issued for professional passenger transport three-wheelers to 10 litres.

Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thero who was travelling from Malaysia to Singapore has been detained at the Changi Airport, according to diplomatic sources.

Anyone elected to parliament by concealing dual citizenship should be punished strongly, including the confiscation of assets, said MP Udaya Gammanpila.

Tributes have been paid to more than 55 Tamil civilians killed by Indian peacekeepers in Jaffna in October 1987.

The Inter University Bhikku Federation (IUBF) has recalled how successive governments had murdered hundreds of student leaders and activists.