Sri Lankan household workers will no longer be required to surrender their passports to their sponsors, according to a new agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka on Monday. Under the agreement, the salaries of domestic workers will also be remitted to their bank accounts. The two governments signed on Monday a memorandum of […]
Panadura Magistrate, Ruchira Weliwatte, ordered the suspect who was remanded on charges of stealing seven bottles of whisky and a laptop computer from United National Party MP, Mangala Samaraweera’s Panadura home, be released on Rs 5,000 cash bail and Rs 25,000 personal bail on Monday (13). […]
The United National Party (UNP) is mooting a No Confidence motion against beleaguered Prime Minister, D.M. Jayaratne, over the allegations that his office had issued a letter to secure a duty waiver for a container, which had South Asia’s largest heroin haul concealed within. […]
Homagama Magistrate Y.R.B. Nelundeniya issued notice on Thursday (9 January) to Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena requesting his appearance in Court on Sunday (19 January) to inquire about a statement the minister had made to the Lanka newspaper in 2012 about the still missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda. […]
Sri Lanka’s post-war rehabiliation project to reintegrate former LTTE combatants into society has come in for criticism from the United States. The US has faulted President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government for releasing those who had fought for the LTTE without prosecuting them. […]