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Eran likens IMF bailout to noose island.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from island.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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By Shamindra Ferdinando The Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government has stepped up attacks on the Election Commission (EC) in the wake of the Supreme Court directive meant to clear the way for much delayed Local Government polls. Urban Development and Housing Ministry yesterday (13) quoted Chief Government Whip Prasanna Ranatunga, apparently oblivious to what is happening, as having […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) Colombo Mayoral candidate Mujibur Rahuman says the second stage of a high profile project to postpone the scheduled Local Government polls is underway.The former Colombo District lawmaker said so when The Island sought his response to the SLPP challenging an interim Supreme Court decision, pertaining to a fundamental […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Opposition expected the Election Commission (EC) to go ahead with preparations for the Local Government polls in line with the Supreme Court directive to Finance Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana and Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC, Prof. G.L. Peiris, MP, said yesterday (06). Addressing the regular Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya briefing at Nawala, the […]
By Lynn Ockersz Whither-bound the ebullient youth, The life-blood of the Isle’s sinews…? Some are scrambling on to flimsy boats, Hoping to get to some nether shore, Promising a better order of things, While others are taking on The Iron Fist, In street jousts ending in blood-lettings; And where could be the land’s elders, Said […]
‘Constitution cannot be circumvented by a circular regardless who issued it’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Top Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya spokesperson Prof. G.L. Peiris said that Finance Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana would have to pay a very heavy price for sabotaging Local Government polls 2023 at the behest of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Addressing the media at Nawala, the […]
Monday 27th February, 2023 Our honourable MPs found themselves in floods of tears on Friday, lamenting as they did, in Parliament, what they called the degeneration of the Buddhist monastic order due to the misconduct of some ‘radicalised’ monks. It was a sad sight to behold! The cause of their lamentation was an unruly protest […]
Lawyers of the Aragalaya claim EC Chairman promised to take legal action against officials island.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from island.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.