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… submits seven page legal objection Former Attorney General Dappula De Livera did not turn up at the Terrorist Investigation Division yesterday morning although he had been summoned. Instead, he was represented by a lawyer. Attorney-at-Law Dimitra Abeysekera, who represented the former AG, told the media that he had submitted a seven-page legal objection to […]

Acting on a tip off, the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) unit at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) on Tuesday (18) found 60,640 PREGAB tablets (150 mg) taken by heroin addicts as an alternative. A senior PNB official said that the passenger, a resident of Rajawella, Digana, who arrived here on a flight from India was […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita The government’s attempts to limit activities that take place in the Galle face Green is a sign of desperation and fear, education secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), Pubudu Jagoda says. Jagoda said that the Galle Face Green was the symbol of the protest movement of 2022. It had become successful […]

USD 250 Mn X-Press Pearl ‘bribe’: By Shamindra Ferdinando Environmentalist Dr. Ajantha Perera has lodged a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) regarding an alleged USD 250 Mn payoff meant to undermine Sri Lanka’s efforts to obtain maximum possible compensation for the unprecedented damages caused by the X-Press Pearl […]

The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says that the Chinese National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the main government department supervising and managing the import and export of wild animals and plants, has said it is not aware of any request to import toque macaque monkeys from Sri Lanka and has not received such application from any […]

Institutions including SriLankan Airlines Limited, the Land Reforms Commission, and the University Grants Commission have been scheduled to be summoned before the Committee on Public Enterprises during the coming sitting week. Officials of the Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation have been asked to appear before COPE on 25 April. On 26 April, the Land […]

By Lynn Ockersz Easily one of the greatest poems in the English language, renowned modern poet T. S. Eliot’s, ‘Journey of the Magi’, defies easy interpretation. On the face of it, the poem focuses on the arduous journey ‘The Three Wise Men’ of the East, or the Three Kings of Christian legend, made to a […]

By Lynn Ockersz Lights go out, one by one, As darkness mingles with desolation, Among people left to their devices, Their hearths dimming by the hour, Amid the thinning aroma in eating places, While hand-to-mouth micro-businesses, Forlornly put up their worn-out shutters, Since there’s no life-line for the afflicted, And begging, for some, becomes an […]