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The SLFP had lost most of its members including the crooks, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said yesterday addressing a meeting at Matugama. She claimed that former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena had destroyed the SLFP by undermining party values. Kumaratunga alleged that the Rajapaksas had siphoned off 15 billion rupees from six development […]

The Sri Lankan Women Chemists’ Breakfast organised by the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) was held recently at the Adamantane House, Institute of Chemistry Ceylon and through the virtual platform Zoom, in par with the IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast. The event emphasised on ‘Women Empowerment in Chemical Sciences in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals’, and was graced […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Election monitors are ready to raise funds for conducting the local council elections, Executive Director of People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) Rohana Hettiarachchi says. “If the real problem is a lack of funding, we are ready to start work this week to secure funding for the election,” he said […]

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday (20) filed a motion in the Supreme Court informing the apex court of its inability to proceed with the March 09 Local Government polls due to the failure on the part of the government to allocate required funds. The EC has informed the Supreme Court that its activities had been […]

By Norman Palihawadane Two persons were killed and at least 26 others were injured when a bus carrying pilgrims returning from Sri Pada went down a precipice around 9.15 pm Sunday at Ginigathhena Norton Bridge. The injured were admitted to Ginigathhena, Watawala and Nawalapitiya hospitals. Hospital sources said that the condition of some of the […]

Chief Opposition Whip and Kandy District SJB MP Lakshman Kiriella says that there will be further tax increases under the current dispensation. Speaking at a rally in Watteg-ama, Kandy, on Sunday, Kiriella said: “The Gota-baya Rajapaksa government, too, was responsible for the situation. When we formed a government in 2015, the World Bank instructed us […]

Colombo High Court Judge Damith Totawatte, yesterday (20) directed police to fingerprint ex-SLFP lawmaker, Sarana Gunaw-ardena, before granting him bail. The Judge released former Gampaha District MP Gunawardena on Rs 30,000 cash bail and two sureties of Rs 500,000 each. Judge Totawatte said that one of the sureties should be a relative of the former […]

By Norman Palihawadane The Navy has recovered a stock of over 128 kilos (wet weight) of Kerala cannabis during a patrol carried out off the Karainagar Island in Jaffna on Sunday (19). SLNS Edithara II attached to the Northern Naval Command fished out three traveling bags found adrift at sea, during the patrol. The suspicious […]

Stephanie Wilcock, Director for Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), recently undertook a visit to Sri Lanka to ascertain food and nutrition needs of the communities. Wilcock also studies how WFP’s US-funded programmes would help them overcome challenges brought on by the […]

By Saman Indrajith University teachers supporting the JVP-led NPP yesterday called on people to consider the forthcoming local council polls as a referendum on the popularity and legitimacy of the incumbent government. Addressing the media at the Solis Hall in Pitakotte, Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri of the Colombo University said that the upcoming local government […]