Civil society activists continue to denounce the police crackdown on a peaceful protest against president Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent visit to Jaffna.
Tactics of intimidation are allegedly being employed to delay election-related printing in order to postpone the local government polls, according to sources at the Government Printing Department.
After failing in all its attempts to put off the local government polls for the 21st time, the government is now plotting to block funding for the election, charged MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.
Twenty four Tamil civilians gunned down in Trincomalee 27 years ago, allegedly by the Army, were remembered on February 11.
A Tamil journalist has been remembered 14 years after he died, while on duty, in an artillery attack by the Army in Mullaitivu.
The machinery brought down to clean the coastal areas polluted by the X-Press Pearl disaster is to be used for a new purpose - to tidy up the tourism beachline.
The Youth Forum Leadership Summit 2023, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka in celebration of the 75th anniversary of bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and the United States, commenced this morning (13) in Colombo with the participation President Ranil Wickremesinghe, U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung, and 60 Youth Forum members from across Sri Lanka.
Power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekara claims to have received information about a conspiracy to create an economic crisis before the local government polls next month.
Appreciating the financial assurances provided by creditors thus far towards achieving Board approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) welcomed the timely announcements by India, Paris Club members including members such as Japan, U.S. and UK, and non-members such as Hungary, calling it "highly encouraging and appreciated by the business community at this time."
The heads of labour recruitment agencies in Oman requested the Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara to take immediate steps to digitalize the foreign employment sector in order to avoid the procedural delays in the recruitment of Sri Lankan workers for jobs in Oman.
