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Presents private member’s Bill to amend EPF law Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M.A. Sumanthiran presented a private member’s Bill to the Bills Office to amend the Employee Provident Fund Act No. 15 of 1958 (as amended) this week. He said that his Bill comes at a time when the country needs to seriously undertake […]
APPRECIATION By Dr D. CHANDRARATNA The 30year war against the LTTE rebel group will undoubtedly be recorded by future historians as one of the most turbulent periods in the history of our country. Fortunately, it also brought out a group of public intellectuals from within the professions into a non-political arena, to counter the sinister […]
Share: Colombo (News 1st); A Trial-at-Bar on Wednesday (17) ordered to remand 08 suspects with respect to the 2016 March Bond Scam until the 23rd of March 2021. The matter was called up in the presence of High Court Judges D.Thotawatta, Manjula Thilakarathne & M. Irsadeen. Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara strongly opposed granting bail to the accused and the bench accepted the objections and ordered for the accused to be remanded. On Wednesday (17) morning, Attorney General filed Indictments before the Trials-at-Bar hearing the Bond Scam cases pertaining to the 2016 Mar...
Share: Colombo (News 1st); The government continues to maintain that a scam did not take place when importing sugar to the country, Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance Anura Priyadarshana Yapa told reporters on Wednesday (17). “The import tax on multiple commodities including sugar was reduced to 25 cents in October 2020, and it remains unchanged because the government wants a considerable period to reduce prices,” he said. If the tax which was reduced to 25 cents was increased to Rs. 50/- within a short period, then one can assume a scam had taken place, however, that is not th...
Posted on February 18th, 2021 Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Justice has appointed two Trial-at Bars for the hearing of the Bond Scam cases involving the two Treasury Bond Auctions in March 2016. The Attorney General requested for a Trial at Bar for the case on February 11, 2021, to try former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, former Governor of Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, Arjun Aloysius, and 07 others with regard to the relevant trial. Subsequently, on February 15, he made a request for another Trial-at-Bar to hear the relevant case. Accordingly, Chief Justice Jay...