The untimely death of award-winning actor Darshan Dharmaraj at the age of 41 years provides ample evidence to the danger faced by Sri Lankans from heart ailments.
Petroleum dealers are refraining from placing orders for the distribution of fuel from this morning (04) to protest a decision by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation to reduce their 45 per cent commission.
The Committee on Public Finance (COPF) has refused to approve the order under the Strategic Development Project Act No. 14 of 2008 which was scheduled to be debated in Parliament today (04).
Elders in need are a category worst affected by a skyrocketing rate of food inflation that stood at 94.9 per cent by the end of last month.
Estate workers have taken to the streets in protest against the refusal by profit-earning employers to raise their wages adequately.
Sri Lanka’s economy would not have been in this crisis, had the country’s professionals paid their due taxes, said Central Bank (CBSL) governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says he is in receipt of copies of six petitions filed in the Supreme Court with regard to the draft bill on the setting up of a rehabilitation bureau.
The CTID has summoned more students of the Kelaniya and Rajarata universities for questioning.
There is no truth to reports that 10 more cabinet ministers will be sworn-in today (03), said a senior official at the Presidential Secretariat.
A special discussion took place yesterday (02) between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Most Rev. Dr. Harold Anthony Perera, Bishop of Kurunegala and the President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka at the Bishop House in Kurunegala.
