President off to Japan; appoints acting ministers
President Ranil Wickremesinghe left the island early today (26) on an official visit to Japan and the Philippines, the President’s Media Division said.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe left the island early today (26) on an official visit to Japan and the Philippines, the President’s Media Division said.
Ranil Wickremesinghe should end the insane repression he is unleashing in conceit with an improvised presidency he has obtained from parliament, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says.
The Liberal Youth Movement (LYM) says the declaration of several Colombo areas as high security zones (HSZs) is in violation of many fundamental rights.
A youth remains in critical condition after he was severely assaulted during the police onslaught against yesterday’s (24) protest by the Socialist Youth Union in Colombo.
The Liberal Democratic Movement (LDM) and three other like-minded groups have agreed to a common framework arrangement at a first round of talks.
A school in Jaffna has remembered 21 of its students who were among the victims of an Air Force bombing 27 years ago.
Leader of the Jathika Jana Balawegaya Anura Kumara Dissanayake has issued a stern warning to president Ranil Wickremesinghe for attempting to repress people’s uprisings in a barbaric manner.
An area politician has been remanded until September 29 for opposing alleged state-sponsored land-grabbing in Mullaitivu, says Journalists for Democracy – Sri Lanka.
Police said 83 members of the Socialist Youth Union were arrested after dispersing an unlawful procession it had held near Lipton Circus in Colombo yesterday afternoon (24).
A senior teacher trade unionist, Renuka Maliyagoda, is presently under interrogation at the Colombo Crime Division at Dematagoda.