Many foreign investments missed due to bankruptcy will soon come to the country to create a never-seen-before awakening in the construction industry, said minister Manusha Nanayakkara.
A political analyst has said the country is in danger of coming under a party-based system of governance in the event a JVP-led government is formed.
Local banks had taken over and auctioned 1,183 small and medium enterprises under the parate law within the past 11 months, said NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
A journalist who reported on a Tamil Martyrs memorial held at a burial ground in the Eastern Province has been interrogated by the police.
Ahnaf Jazeem, a poet and teacher from Silavathurai, Mannar who was arrested and detained by the Terrorism Investigations Division (TID) in May 2020 under the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was acquitted by the Puttalam High Court yesterday due to a lack of evidence.
The doctors of the National Eye Hospital in Colombo have called off the one-day token strike which was launched this morning (14).
Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon has directed the Computer Crime Investigation Division (CCID) to establish a separate division in order to investigate allegations of religious hate crimes perpetrated through social media.
Australia announced a new migration policy on Monday that would tighten visa requirements for skilled workers and foreign students in order to make immigration “sustainable.”
Decrying the state of mental health treatment in the country, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has said some of the actions and lack of facilities ‘amount to torture’.
War-affected Tamils searching for their near and dear handed over or surrendered to the Sri Lankan army whose fate is still unknown even after 14 years since the war ended observed International Human Rights Day (IHD) as a ‘Black Day’.
