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Continuing his discussions with large-scale Indian investors and corporate leaders, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with IndiGo airline’s co-founder and Managing Director Rahul Bhatia in New Delhi. This was a follow-up to the meeting that they had in December last year. The discussion between High Commissioner Moragoda and Bhatia was centred […]

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) says the special committee it appointed to review the Anti-Terrorism Bill, gazetted on the 22nd of March 2023, has observed that clauses 3,4,10,11,13,-14,15,16,28,30,31,36,82,-83,84,85, and 86 of the bill infringe upon the principles of the criminal justice system and are in contravention of the legal rights of the citizens. […]

By Saman Indrajith The Opposition was not in a position to back the IMF/EFF facility at the vote scheduled to be taken on Friday (28) as the government had not submitted the entire agreement with the IMF, Chief Opposition Whip SJB MP Lakshman Kiriella told Parliament yesterday. Participating in the three-day debate on the IMF/EFF […]

By saman Indrajith Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday told Parliament that there was a shortage of over 100 types of essential drugs in government hospitals. Rambukwella said that while there were 1,347 types of medicines used by the state-run hospitals and 150 of them were in short supply. The Minister said that the government spent […]

Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhary is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on 01 May 2023 for an official visit on an invitation from Sri Lanka Air Force Chief, Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana. Air Chief Marshal Chaudhary, who joined the Indian Air Force as a […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando The Supreme Court (SC) on Feb. 10 dismissed a contempt of court application filed by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), delivering a shock therapy to the latter. The HRCSL filed the contempt case against the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) N.S. Illangakoon, the Secretary to the Ministry […]

By Lynn Ockersz Egged on by murderous instincts, On just hearing some advice from this elder, The schoolboy trio closed in on him, The father of a months-old girl child, And bludgeoned him to a bloody heap, With no mercy shown to the fellow human, Leaving behind tell-tale tragic signs, Of a fabled civilization bleeding […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who engineered a high profile project that culminated with Sri Lanka betraying her armed forces, at the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in early Oct, 2015, received a warm welcome here, recently. The one-time South Korean Foreign Minister, served as the […]

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