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Posted on January 19th, 2021 Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has declared the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact to be inconsistent with the Constitution of Sri Lanka. According to State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, the Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, the Attorney General has advised the Secretary to the President on the matter through a 20-page detailed instruction letter. The advice of the Attorney General has been based observations made by relevant state and other institutions, the report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Mini...

Former Sri Lankan ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga and 45 Ukrainian tourists visited a number of Buddhist sites in Polonnaruwa yesterday. The group was greeted by officers of the Central Cultural Fund, and were taken on a guided tour of the place. The Army and the police had been deployed to provide security to the Ukrainians. After completing the Polonnaruwa tour, they left for Matale. The Army, police and CCF officials were in protective gear in view of the pandemic. Our attempts to contact Sri Lanka Tourism officials to learn whether Weeratunga had informed them of the tour in adva...

By Rathindra Kuruwita President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ‘Gama Samaga Pilisandara’ is a psychological operation to counter people’s resistance to a move to hand over chena and grasslands to large companies, environmentalist Sajeewa Chamikara said yesterday. Chamikara claimed that the government had earmarked 800,000 acres of land to be given to corporations, and those lands would mainly […]

By Chitra Weerarathne The Court of Appeal yesterday re-fixed for hearing on March 3 and March 10, the Contempt of Court application against the President of the Government Medical Officers’ Association Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya. Counsel Ravindranath Dabare said that his client Dr. Padeniya was under self-quarantine and was unable to attend Court. Dr. Padeniya was summoned for Contempt of Court under Article 105/3 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka for allegedly having criticised a Superior Court ruling in respect of the admission of students to the Sri Lanka Institute of Technology and Medicine,...

‘Commissions wasted public funds, no tangible results’ By Dinasena Ratugamage Tamil Makkal Thesiya Kutani (TMTK) leader C.V. Wigneswaran, MP, alleged in Jaffna on Monday (18) that the government was making a fresh bid to deceive the Genava-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by appointing another Commission of Inquiry. Former Justice Wigneswaran, who served as […]