Politics

Discussion on draft bill to set up Parliament Budget Office A special meeting attended by the Party leaders and members of the Committee on Parliamentary Business to discuss the draft bill for the establishment of the Budget Office of the…

Foreign Employment Minister in Saudi : Several key issues discussed Saudi Arabia has expressed its willingness to raise the minimum wage of Sri Lankan domestic workers employed in the Kingdom and to recruit more Sri Lankans for the construction and…

Sri Lanka monitors the progress of rescued passengers   The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says they are continuing to monitor the progress of the passengers of Sri Lankan origin who were rescued and bought to the Port of Vung Tau…

Four Cabinet Ministers including Harin to resign!   Four Cabinet Ministers have decided to withdraw from their ministerial portfolios and launch a new political movement in the near future. Deshaya newspaper reported that Lands and Tourism Minister Harin Fernando has…

Retiring officers cannot take vehicles home: Ministry   The Finance Ministry has informed to immediately suspend the decision taken by the board directors of corporations, statutory bodies and state banks who retire at the age of 60 to take home…

New job for Mahinda Deshapriya   A Gazette Extraordinary has been issued by Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardene appointing a 5-member National Delimitation Committee on demarcation of wards for local authorities. The committee is chaired by former Election Commissioner – Mahinda…

Another SJB bigwig to crossover?   A bigwig of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is preparing to cross over to the government soon, ‘Lankadeepa’ reports. Quoting highly placed sources in the party, the newspaper says that the politician in question…

  Former prime minister of Pakistan – Imran Khan has sustained a bullet injury in his leg after shots were fired at a rally in Gujranwala. Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party confirmed to Al Jazeera, that…

Rishad released from Easter attack case MP Rishad Bathiudeen who was named as a suspect in the Easter Sunday attack investigations was released from the case by Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage today (02). The order was issued as per…

Gazette suspending bath ware imports, an injustice  – COPF The Committee on Public Finance was of the view that Regulations published in the Extra Ordinary gazette Notification 2296/30, Under the Import and Export (Control) Act No. 1 of 1969 should…