Amnesty International says it is worrying that even after months of widespread protests in the country, Sri Lanka Police need to be constantly reminded of their duty to facilitate the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and exercise restraint in the use of force while policing assemblies.

US Republican Party, Grand Old Party (GOP) Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said that if voted to power, she will cut every cent in foreign aid for countries that hate the US. This includes China, Pakistan and other adversaries as “a strong America doesn’t pay off the bad guys”. “I will cut every cent in foreign aid for countries […]

Vietnamese airlines have to temporarily postpone the resumption of air routes to China until late April or May to wait for China’s next decisions about the allowance of its tourists to Việt Nam, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV). In mid-February, China announced the reopening of tours to 20 countries, excluding […]

  A Uyghur refugee from China’s Xinjiang region died of alleged police neglect this month at the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center, raising concerns about the treatment of the more than 50 Uyghur refugees who have been held at the center since 2014. The victim was Abdulaziz Abdullah, 49. His son, Muhammad Abdullah, who lives in […]

When the Russian naval frigate the Admiral Gorshkov arrived in the port of Richards Bay in South Africa early this week for joint military drills with China and South Africa, it was sporting the letters Z and V on its sides. Those are the same letters seen on Russian weapons on the front lines in […]

Pakistan’s government has agreed to increase the policy interest rate which stands at 17 per cent by two per cent or 200 basis points to meet another condition set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), The Express Tribune reported. With the new decision, Pakistan has accepted another pre-condition of the IMF for the release of […]

Pakistan’s federal budget deficit projection has been revised to history’s highest at Rs6.22 trillion, highlighting the unending fiscal woes that have pushed the country into a debt trap despite putting an additional burden of Rs735 billion on people in the current fiscal year. The revision has been made in light of recent talks with the […]

The Chairmen of the People’s Bank and the Bank of Ceylon both emphasized that their respective banks are ready to serve their customers tomorrow (01). They expressed their confidence that it is the responsibility of all public servants to support the government’s program to build the country’s economy, and that bank employees will do the […]

The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (27) approved the proposal furnished by the  President to direct the Legal Draftsman to prepare a draft bill to establish a fund named National Contributory Pension Fund  to ensure an appropriate environment for state sector employees to spend their retired life without being a burden to the country as […]

The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) and the Ministry of Labour and Foreign Employment have signed an agreement with the Japan International Training Cooperation Organisation (JITCO).

The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to establish a National Contributory Pension Fund for new public service employees and those who have joined the public service after January 2016, with an 8% contribution from the employee and 12% from the employer.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the G20 is destabilized by the collective West and is used in an anti-Russian, purely confrontational manner. The United States, the EU and the G7 continue their attempts to isolate Russia and shift the blame for the provoked problems in international security and the global economy […]

Maritime safety and security within the Indian Ocean are set to increase and will benefit Seychelles as two centres dealing with and coordinating maritime information exchange signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday. The MoU was signed by the director of the Seychelles-based Regional Coordination Operations Centre (RCOC), Sam Gonthier, and done virtually by […]

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Dinesh Deshapriya won gold at the ITTF Para Open Table Tennis (TT) (Class 09) championship which was worked out in Giza Egypt. In the grand finale Dinesh beat Hussein Hassan who represented the host country in straight sets (3-0). With this win Dinesh who had not played in an international tourney for over two years […]

by Jehan Perera Government supporters appear to be satisfied at the masterful manner by which they believe they have had the local government elections postponed. They deny there was to be an election to be postponed, at all! They find fault with the Election Commission for not having minutes of the meeting they had to […]