A lawyer who sustained injuries following the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attack at the Hotel Shangri-La has sent a letter of demand to the former President, former Prime Minister and ten other officials requesting them to jointly pay him...
Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) are likely to be performed on the people who cross the borders of the Western Province during the Festive season. The government said yesterday.
However, no decision has been taken to restrict the movement of people.
The government has ordered the removal of all oil palm plantations on a phased-out basis by uprooting 10 per cent of the oil palm trees at a time. The government has also banned the importation of palm oil to...
A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money that could shake a pillar of American power.
It might seem money is already virtual,...
Former Governor of Western Province Azath Salley today filed a fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order to release him from the custody of the CID.
Salley was arrested by the CID and currently being detained over...
The Court of Appeal today issued notices on the respondents including Minister of Labour returnable for May 5 in connection with the writ petition filed by 20 major plantation companies.
The petitioner-companies are seeking an order quashing the decision of...
The writ petition filed by Gampaha District Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake, claiming his rights to function as a Parliamentarian was today dismissed by Court of Appeal.
Accordingly, Court of Appeal (President) Justice Arjuna Obeysekera and Justice Mayadunne Corearefused to issue notices...
The Mrs Sri Lanka 2021 pageant was ugly. The event was ugly. The women who took centre stage were ugly. Why? Because beauty as they say radiates fromwithin and what manifested on stage was unadulterated ugliness.
It’s only Monday...
It said vaccine supplies had taken place in many countries in various regions of the world, referring to a statement made by the External Affairs Ministry on the second of April.
Sri Lanka is among 80 countries to which a...
The members of the NMRA said no sufficient literature on the vaccine by the manufacture was the reason not to approve the vaccine for use among the general public.
The first victim was well-known specialist Dr Palitha Abeykoon and the...
What’s the delay, the Archbishop queried the government when those responsible for the carnage had been clearly indicated in the report handed over by the Commission of Inquiry.
“We would not approve of any moves by the government if efforts...
