Former Director-General of Health Services and Environment Ministry Secretary Dr. Anil Jasinghe who went to attend a meeting of the United Nations Environment Program in South Korea has encountered a problem at the airport as he had forgotten to carry the COVID vaccination card with him.
The Pandora Papers, which has exposed the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents, last night stirred up the high ranks within the government and political circles in Sri Lanka as former parliamentarian Nirupama Rajapaksa was documented in it.
Sri Lanka updated the European Union (EU) on reviewing the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and reiterated its commitment to bring it in line with international norms within a time bound process by the next meeting of the EU-Sri Lanka Joint Commission in early 2022, the Foreign Ministry said.
A Letter of Demand (LoD) has been sent on behalf of the Minister of Trade, Bandula Gunawardena, to a former board member of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA), Thushan Gunewardena, demanding the immediate payment of a sum of Rs. 1 billion for defamatory statements made against him by the latter.
Indictments were yesterday served on Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando in connection with the offences of murder and attempted murder, for their serious lapses and grave omissions to prevent Easter Sunday bomb attacks on April 21 in 2019, by the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar.
