Intimidation of journalists in the north and east of Sri Lanka continues, be it the coverage of a national issue in main cities or local social issues in small towns in the country.
It is reported that an attempt has been made by the Secretary to the Ministry of Education to transfer the principal of Royal College, B.A. Abeyrathne with immediate effect.
The Secretary to the Education Ministry had informed the principal regarding the sudden transfer over the phone. He had also stated that the transfer was due to a request made by the Prime Minister after he had been approached by the old boys of Royal College who had sought his intervention in this regard.
Sources at the Education Ministry stated that standard practice is to refrain from transfering principals when the admission of students to the first grade have not been completed.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed all employees at the Department of Customs to commit themselves towards a positive transformation of the department before the end of the first quarter of this year.
An unelected parliamentarian from Sri Lanka’s ruling party has made a passionate appeal to the parliament in Sinhala to defeat a bill in a Canadian local assembly about Tamil
US President-elect Joe Biden has blasted the "insurrection" of pro-Trump supporters who stormed the US Congress in a riot that saw a woman shot dead.
Opposition lawmaker Harin Fernando MP, said in Parliament yesterday (06), that there were five people who were responsible for the dreaded Sir's curse.
