Category: Local News

Nalini Sriharan, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Monday again moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to Tamil Nadu government to consider her representation for premature release.

The State, private sector and Semi-Government Trade Unions Collective yesterday temporarily suspended strike action they were to embark on today.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said that the Rs.10,000 monthly allowance given to the government employees will be added to their basic salary in three stages from next year January.

President Maithripala Sirisena who left for Vatican yesterday on an invitation extended by His Holiness Pope Francis, arrived at the Fiumicino Airport last night.

The recently released Supplementary Environmental Impact Report (SEIA) for the Colombo Port City (CPC) project says the main objective of the CPC is to create a regional business hub…

Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to make a special statement in Parliament today on discussions he had with the representatives of Trade Unions over the weekend.

Yesterday, the government held last minute talks with the trade unions with a view to heading off strike action on Monday. The GMOA apparently had not been invited for this meeting.

Minister of Science, Technology and Research and former General Secretary of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Susil Premajayantha says that maintaining a balance is the key in all areas of the government’s policies and implementation.

Two Bills to introduce anti-hate speech laws and criminalizing the instigation of communal violence and disharmony were presented in Parliament yesterday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe rejected a request by the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) which sought an appointment to meet him.

Former Minister Johnston Fernando and former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal were summoned to the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) this morning to record statements on two different cases.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the government expects to hold the Local Government election before the next Sinhala and Tamil New Year.

Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that as Southern youth responsible for insurrections in 1971 and 1987-89 had been pardoned after re-habilitation there was no reason why the northern youth should not be released in a similar manner.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has curtailed participating at functions and meetings as his life is in danger due to lack of security, his spokesman Rohan Welivita said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremeinghe informed Parliament yesterday that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) will not be signed with India and that only an economic and technological cooperation agreement…

Finance minister Ravi Karunanayake says that the 25% tax surcharge on profits of casinos and gaming companies and the doubling of the annual levy on gaming businesses..