The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to grant a presidential pardon to former Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake.
The United National Party has questioned the absence of the Minister of Finance from Sri Lanka despite the ongoing financial crisis. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa left for the United States yesterday morning (15).
The National People’s Power (NPP) comprising a number of progressive forces including political parties and civil society organisations will hold its national convention on 20 December at 9.00 am at the Monarch Imperial Conference Hall in Sri Jayewardenepura.
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has been downgraded to B status by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), a United Nations Institute of National Human Rights Organisation.
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa left for the United States this morning (15). According to BIA sources, the Finance Minister had left in an Emirates Flight at 02.55 am bound for Dubai. Sources also added his wife was accompanying him.
Two state entities, Colombo Commercial Fertilisers Ltd and Ceylon Fertilisers Company Ltd will be merged as the National Organic Fertiliser and Distribution Company to facilitate and increase solid and liquid organic fertiliser production, according to an Agriculture Ministry memorandum.
Sri Lanka’s inconsistency in decision making and reversing of mega project deals from time to time has strained its relations with India and China.
New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking.
Time is running out for Sri Lanka to get assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as official discussions with government authorities and the IMF delegation now in the island are nearing completion, official sources said.
Thanks to archaic, Victorian-era laws that are still present in Sri Lanka, the country’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTIQ) community has been marginalised and discriminated against for over a century.
