The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday filed two Special Determination petitions challenging the constitutionality of the bill titled “Colombo Port City Economic Commission”.
The BASL President Saliya Pieris PC and its Secretary Attorney-at-law Rajeev Amarasuriya filed two separate...
The Center for Environmental Justice (CEJ), its Executive Director Hemantha Withanage, Attorney-at-law Sanjaya Edirisinghe and animal rights activist Panchali Madurangi Panapitiya filed this petition naming Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation C.B. Ratnayake and the...
The mask is unique because it is three-ply with properties that will repel and kill the SARS CoV- 2 virus.
The reusable mask is now available at the State Trading Corporation and Sathosa outlets. Around 800,000 masks have been released...
22 countries voted in favour of the Resolution and 11 countries vote against it. 14 countries abstained from voting.
Among the countries that voted in favour were most of the global north including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the UK....
The Bribery Commission today informed court that it has decided to withdraw the case filed against former Chief Justice and former Attorney General Mohan Peiris, Supreme Court Judge A.H.M.D. Nawaz and former Secretary to the Ministry of Power and...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that security will be beefed up in the Eastern Province to stem separatism and Islamic extremism.
Tamils and Muslims together outnumber the Sinhalese in the Eastern Province. The province had been the base of the...
Colombo, March 13: The West-led Core Group on Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday went a step further to get India’s support for the tough resolution it is planning to bring against Sri Lanka....
An advertisement in Sinhala, posted on twitter shows a travelling bag. But the advertiser sells vehicles. The content of the advertisement roughly translated goes, ‘Travel in a bag or travel in a car? Give up your illicit relationships. For...
Researchers from the University of Peradeniya who invented the Respirone Nano AV99 face mask will present their product to the diplomatic community today for it to be marketed in their countries. The production of the mask for the local...
