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By Saman Indrajith The JVP yesterday flayed President Ranil Wickremesinghe for having summoned the members of the Elections Commission (EC) to his office. Such action amounted to exerting undue influence on the EC, which is supposed to act independently after an election is announced, according to the JVP. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the […]
BBC reported that Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vowed to punish supporters of the country’s ex-leader, Jair Bolsonaro, after they stormed Congress. Supporters of the ousted far-right leader also stormed the Supreme Court and surrounded the presidential palace. But police regained control of the buildings in the capital Brasilia on Sunday evening […]
Easter Sunday attacks: By Shamindra Ferdinando Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) spokesperson Mujibur Rahuman, MP, yesterday (08) asked the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government whether it intended to appoint Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena, one of those who had been accused of failing to thwart the 2019 Easter Sunday carnage, as the next Inspector General of Police (IGP). MP Rahuman said […]
Six journalists in South Sudan have been arrested over the circulation of footage appearing to show President Salva Kiir wetting himself, BBC said quoting media rights.It said: In December, a video shared on social media appeared to show Kiir urinating on himself as the national anthem played at a function. Six staff from the state […]
By Ifham Nizam One of the Norochcholai coal-fired power plant units, shutdown for routine maintenance, had been reactivated yesterday, a senior Electrical Engineer of the Ceylon Electricity Board said.The generator at the Plant was shut down on 22 Dec., for ‘early annual maintenance’ but the CEB engineers claim the shutdown was due to lack of coal. […]