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Parliament has decided to debate the National Unity and Reconciliation Bill next week. The decision was taken by the Committee on Parliamentary Business which met under the chairmanship of Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana. Accordingly, on the 09th of January 2024 from 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. t

Business pertaining to the second parliamentary week of July was decided on the 7th at the Committee on Parliamentary Business Chaired by  Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, the Speaker. Accordingly, the Parliament is scheduled to convene from 18th July to the 21st. Time from 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. on each day is reserved for Questions for […]

 Parliament shall not convene on Tuesday, the 4 th of July Adjournment Debate on Delays in Judicial Proceedings in Courts and Reasons Involved There...

 Second Reading of the Anti-Corruption Bill on June 21st The second Reading Parliamentary Budget Office Bill scheduled for the 20th Adjournment d...

 May 26 th set aside for the Vote of condolence of the late Hon. Joseph Michel Perera Address for the removal of the incumbent Chairman of the Publi...

By Rathindra Kuruwita Minister of Education, Susil Premajayantha said that plans were undersay to keep schools open until 22 or 23 December 2022.The minister said that he had spoken to all stakeholders in the education sector and everyone had agreed the need to keep schools open. “We have to cover the 2022 syllabus. We have […]

By Saman Indrajith It had been decided at the party leaders’ meeting yesterday to hold parliament sittings on five days next week, Chief Government Whip and Highways Minister Johnston Fernando said. Minsiter Fernando said that the usual sitting week should have been only for four days from Tuesday to Friday but Monday too had been […]

By Saman Indrajith Party leaders yesterday decided to hold the debate and vote on the no confidence motion against Power and Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila on 19 and 20 July. It was decided at the party leaders’ meeting presided by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, at the parliamentary complex that Parliament would meet for four days from today (06) until Friday (09), Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake said. Accordingly, Parliament will convene today (06) at 10.00 a.m. and ...

Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:52 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 31, Colombo: The Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake has announced that the first sitting of the 9th Parliament for the year 2021 will convene from the 5th of January to the 8th of January, as decided at the Committee on Parliamentary Business held yesterday (30). The Committee on Parliamentary Business which was chaired by the Deputy Chairperson of Committees Angajan Ramanathan also decided to permit me...