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Speaking at the 150th-anniversary celebration of Eppawala Siddhartha Central College, on Thursday (07), President Ranil Wickremesinghe reaffirmed that the country’s education policies will be safeguarded from political influence and unified under a single legal framework. The President pointed out that swift and substantial education reforms were needed to prepare Sri Lanka’s education system. &#...
Australia beat South Africa in the first ODI in Bloemfontein, courtesy a lower-order rescue act by concussion substitute Marnus Labuschagne and all-rounder Ashton Agar. After Australia were in a crisis, at 113/7 chasing 223, Agar and Labuschagne put on a century stand to take Australia to victory, despite Temba Bavuma’s one-man show in the first […]
Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith on Wednesday (06) called for an independent international team to investigate the Easter Sunday attacks.The team must be supported by CID officials who were initially involved in the investigation but were transferred to other areas by a biased political authority, the Cardinal said. Minister Manusha Nanayakkara had said that […]
Friday 8th September, 2023 The Opposition’s no-faith motion against Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella is scheduled to be put to the vote in Parliament today. Perhaps, the SJB would not have caused it to be taken up for debate early but for humiliation it suffered at the hands of President Ranil Wickremesinghe recently in the House. […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay, in his present capacity as Director, State Intelligence has told Channel 4 Television that he was not in Sri Lanka for the whole of 2018 as he was in Malaysia as Minister Counsellor of the government of Sri Lanka. Therefore, the accusation that he met several members of […]
By Saman Indrajith Chief Opposition Whip and Kandy District SJB MP Lakshman Kiriella told Parliament yesterday that a nexus between the Secretary to the Health Ministry and unregistered drugs importing companies had was the reason for the proliferation of substandard medicines in the country. Participating in the debate on the no-confidence motion against the Health […]
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday ( 07) denied allegations made against him in a documentary on the Easter Sunday attacks by Britain’s Channel 4.Issuing a statement, he said that the documentary is an anti-Rajapaksa tirade and a bundle of lies Full text of Rajapaksa’s statement: “The central allegation made in the latest film on […]
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reaffirmed that the country’s education policies will be safeguarded from political influence and unified under a single legal framework.
With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country s ruling party in next June s election, Mexico will for the first time have time two women from its main political movements competing for the presidency.
Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a statement in order to respond to the allegations made by the Channel 4 program on the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks.The post Gotabaya Rajapaksa responds to allegations made by Channel 4 on Easter Sunday attacks appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
… Threats to political leaders often come from closest allies By Rathindra Kuruwita Former President and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) leader Maithripala Sirisena, yesterday (06), said that threats to political leaders often came from their closest allies. Sirisena said so at the SLFP HQ in response to a question from a journalist on the […]
Thursday 7th September, 2023 Former Sri Lankan cricketer Sachithra Senanayake has been arrested for spot-fixing. He is alleged to have approached some players during the Lanka Premier League tournament in 2020 and sought to lure them into spot-fixing. Senanayake has denied the allegation against him, claiming that it is part of a sinister campaign to […]
‘Crisis of governance’ stressed Judicial independence: By Shamindra Ferdinando Lawyers’ Collective, consisting of some influential members of the legal fraternity, has urged the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) to take a stand on what it calls President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s continuing efforts to stifle democracy. The grouping warned that the failure to safeguard the independence o...
By N Sathiya Moorthy Between them, two UN affiliates, namely, the UNDP and the UNICEF have damned the nation on the socio-economic front. Much of it is unbelievably attributed or is attributable to last year’s economic crisis, and thus may hide more than they may have revealed. Or, that is the collective impression gathered from […]
Video: A-PAD adresses climate crisis during International Symposium 2023 in Colombo
Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit – be it for war crime atrocities, more recent human rights violations, corruption, or abuse of power – which must be addressed for the country to move forward, according to a UN Human Rights Office report published on Wednesday. “More than a year ago mass protests demanded better governance […]
Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people.The post Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories...
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today questioned if the murderer of journalist Lasantha Wickremetunga is in Parliament. Premadasa said that Wickremetunga helped strengthen the political journey of current President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He told Parliament the President, and the Government must comment on the state of the investigations into Wickremetunga’s murder. In 2015, then Prime Mini...
[…]The post Singapore Elected A ‘Tharman’; For Sri Lanka, A ‘Kadirgamar’ Still A Wish! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Colombo Rubber Traders Association (CRTA) stresses that the rubber harvest has significantly dropped as a result of the leaf fall disease in rubber trees for several years.
Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Food Security and Agriculture, Member of Parliament Mr. D. Weerasinghe said that they have already proposed a national policy for agriculture to regulate the usage, quality and price of chemical fertilizers and seeds imported to the country based on experimental data carried out for several decades.
Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Food Security and Agriculture, Member of Parliament D. Weerasinghe during a media briefing held on Tuesday (05) at the Presidential Media Centre under the theme ‘Collective Path to a Stable Country’ said that the SOC have already proposed a National Policy for Agriculture to regulate the usage, quality […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Asanka Navaratne yesterday (05) denied claims that he had recently joined the SJB. Navaratne said so when The Island sought his response to reports of him switching his allegiance to SJB leader Sajith Premadasa. Navaratne, who is the General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya said that he remained […]
MP Asanka Navaratne, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (Sri Lanka People s Party), has refuted recent media reports claiming that the political party joined hands with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB).
Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Food Security and Agriculture, MP D. Weerasinghe said that they have already proposed a national policy for agriculture to regulate the usage, quality and price of chemical fertilizers and seeds imported to the country based on experimental data carried out for several decades.
[…]The post Taxation Without Accountability Is Not Sustainable appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (Sri Lanka People s Party) MP Asanka Navaratne has decided to join the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), expressing his support towards the political party led by Sajith Premadasa.
Nine international human rights organizations have raised grave reservations about the Sri Lankan Government’s “flawed plans” to appoint a National Unity and Reconciliation Commission. The human rights groups said the concerns echo many of those already raised by victims of conflict-related abuses and their families. “Sri Lanka has a long history of convening similar bodies, [...
An appreciation: It is with profound sadness that this tribute is being written to the remarkable life and accomplishments of Douglas Pemasiri, who passed away at age 88 in Miami, Florida, in the United States on June 12th this year. He was a diplomatic officer who dedicated his life to promoting trade and commerce, representing […]
Tuesday 5th September, 2023 A poor man who recently walked along a road, carrying a jackfruit, in Gampola, while President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s motorcade was passing through the area is reportedly in trouble. Media reports say the police have initiated an investigation, claiming that he did so by way of protest. Even if he had protested […]