A Special Determination petition challenging the constitutionality of the bill titled “Colombo Port City Economic Commission” was filed before the Supreme Court today.
Attorney-at-Law Dharshana Weraduwage filed this petition seeking a declaration that the bill in whole or in...
German Ambassador for Sri Lanka Holger Seubert has reminded the State minister of Transport Dilum Amunugama in a Twitter message that Adolf Hitler is no role model for any politician.
The ambassador’s observations came in the wake of a tweet...
INS Ranvijay, the fifth of the Rajput Class Destroyer is scheduled to visit Colombo from 14-16 April 2021 on a goodwill visit. The Indian High Commission said
The Anti-Submarine Warfare capable Guided Missile Destroyer is equipped with the state-of-the-art indigenous...
Eleven out of fifteen suspects, who were in custody for allegedly plotting to assassinate, TNA Parliamentarian M.A Sumanthiran have been released by the Fort Magistrate’s Court.
The released suspects include notorious underworld gangster Ganemulle Sanjeewa alias Sanjeewa Samararatne and ten...
Despite the heavy toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sri Lanka’s economy and the lives of its people, the economy will recover in 2021, though challenges remain, says the latest World Bank Sri Lanka Development Update: Economic and Poverty...
In a move seen as puzzling, or even aggressive, the US Navy conducted a patrol in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Western Indian Ocean without informing India. This freedom of navigation operation (FNOP) was conducted, the...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has appointed a committee to study and make recommendations to the BASL in respect of the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill.
The Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill was presented to Parliament on...
India has established a bilateral air bubble arrangement with Sri Lanka for operation of special international passenger flights between the two countries, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Saturday.
With this, India now has such pacts with 28 countries, including...
A doctor attached to the Negombo Provincial General Hospital has referred a patient who went into a coma due to a hypoglycemic condition or low blood sugar levels to the hospital mortuary.
A forty-five-year-old man from PitipanaNegombo who fell ill...
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has commenced an investigation against Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) national list parliamentarian Diana Gamage over a complaint that she is a British citizen residing in Sri Lanka without obtaining dual citizenship..
Filing a B report...
People’s Movement for the Rights of Patients (PMRP) today filed a Fundamental Rights petition in Supreme Court seeking an Interim Order preventing the health authorities from utilizing the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka.
The PMRP, its President...
The news of Prince Philip’s death was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday. It came after he was admitted to King Edward VII’s hospital in London on 16 February. He was moved to St Bartholomew’s hospital in the City...
