Owners of small and medium-scale rice mills stated that thousands of rice mills could shut down if immediate action is not taken to impose a control price on rice.

Chairman of the ‘One Country, One Law’ Presidential Task Force, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, criticised the former and current Governments for failing to pass legislation to stem the rise in racism and put an end to the ethnic conflict.

Former President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday said that the Government doesn’t give an ear to the concerns raised by him.

Vice Chairman of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya Parliamentarian Harin Fernando says he is willing to resign from his National List Parliamentary seat in order to give a Parliamentary seat to the imprisoned former Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has emphasized the imperative need for a new agricultural revolution that is not against nature and pointed out that people should coexist with nature rather than act against it.

Victims of the Easter Sunday bombings seek justice not as a gift, but as a fundamental right, Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said.

The JVP will commence a series of programmes from today under the theme “Gamen Patangamu”, with the aim of providing solutions to issues faced by the rural community.

Direct flights between Sri Lanka and France resumed after six years yesterday, the Ministry of Tourism stated. Accordingly, SriLankan Airlines Flight UL 563 departed for the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, at 1 a.m. yesterday.

The JVP says that the country is caught-up in what it calls ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ and warns that Sri Lanka is poised to lose more national assets in the immediate future.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a wide range of public services as essential services, as trade unions are bracing for a strike demanding the cancellation of an agreement with a US company on the sale of 40 percent of the shares of the Yugadanavi power plant at Kerwalapitiya.

The brother of the notorious criminal figure on death row ‘Dematagoda Chaminda’ who was arrested over his involvement in drug dealing has been remanded until November 05.

“At that point I wondered whether I was dreaming” said Minister Wimal Weerawansa, recalling the instance when the cabinet paper on the controversial LNG power plant deal was approved within the Cabinet.

Health Minister Dr. Keheliya Rambukwella told EU officials yesterday (29) that 70 per cent of the country’s population has been vaccinated. The Minister also pointed out that the population over 30 years of age has been fully vaccinated.

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country today (30) to attend the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.

The United National Party says international powers have started to blacklist the present administration.