Sri Lanka will continue to support the UN Secretary-General in his endeavors to push for gender parity at all levels at the institution, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Mohan Peiris told a recent Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting titled “Call to Lead by Example: Ensuring the Full, Equal and Meaningful Participation of […]
It had been decided to vaccinate those who were above 60 years on a priority basis, again, Acting Deputy Director General of Health, Dr. Hemantha Herath told The Island yesterday. Dr. Herath said that a majority of those who had died of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka had been above 60 years. About 54% of COVID-19 […]
The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) has requested the Ministry of Finance to conduct a forensic audit on the loss incurred by the state due to reducing the import duty on sugar to Rs. 0.25 per kilo. SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva urged a forensic audit to calculate the real loss since it was estimated […]
By Nalaka Rathnayake The Viceroy Special with a steam powered locomotive, on its way to Nanuoya from Colombo, carrying a Russian billionaire, broke down at the Hatton railway station yesterday morning. The Russian had booked the train for his family. Railway officials used a diesel engine to haul the train with the Russians.
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The government had been stabbed in the back by National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and Industries Minister Wimal Weerawansa, SLPP parliamentary group sources said yesterday (11).
Referring to Minister Weerawansa’s accusations regarding clandestine links between a section of the government and All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader Rishad Bathiudeen, allegedly involved with those responsible for 2019 Easter Sunday carnage, sources pointed out that the NFF leader’s move was intended to undermine the SLPP.
Delivering a public lecture at Sambuddhathva Jayanthi Mandiraya, on Tuesday (9), lawmaker Weerawansa alleged a group of decadent ruling party politicians who realised entering into political marriage with what the minister called Islamic extremism in the future had prevented the exposure of the likes of Rishad Bathiudeen.