Sri Lanka and the Principality of Andorra, a European microstate co-administered by Roman Catholic Bishop of Urgell in Spain and the President of France, have formally established diplomatic relations by signing the Joint Communiqué on November 30.
Strongly denying the allegation that the Central Bank is politicized, Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy last week told reporters in Colombo that it is not his institution but what is politicized is the country’s whole economic decision-making system.
The resolution approved by the Northern Provincial Council prohibiting the construction of Buddhist temples in the North will have no legal value, Buddha Sasana and Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapakshe told Parliament today while taking part in the committee stage debate on the Budget.
The FCID today informed court that it had sent extracts of the two cases filed against MP Namal Rajapaksa and five others, on charges of money laundering, to the Attorney General seeking his opinion on filing indictments against the suspects at the High Court.
Cricketers could be 'red-carded' by umpires and ejected from the ground for the duration of a match from next October after the sport's lawmakers on Wednesday recommended on-field sanctions to address declining standards of player behaviour.
Cabinet spokesman, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne today said who ever spoke to IGP Pujitha Jayasunadara during the press conference in Ratnapura on November 30 was not to influence him to arrest or not to arrest any individual but only to know about the position of the said case.
The ongoing construction of the world’s tallest artificial Christmas Tree at the Galle Face Green had been halted today, the convener of the Prime Mover Driver's Union attached to the Ports Authority and Social Welfare Committee Mangala. P. Gunasekera said.
The construction of a Christmas tree on Galle face is a sheer waste of money, and those responsible for this work should be asked to use the funds to construct houses for poor people or provide scholarships to poor children, said the president of the Bishops' Conference -- Colombo Archbishop, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, yesterday.
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M. A. Sumanthiran, yesterday, told Prisons Reforms, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Hindu Religious Affairs Minister D. M. Swaminathan to resign his portfolio and hand over his ministry to someone else if he could not work for the Tamil people.
Former Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardena, who trail blazed the entire 670km from Point Pedro in Jaffna down to Matara along with hundreds of other people to support establish a cancer treatment facility in Karapitiya, said in an interview with Daily Mirror that if he were rich enough to build a hospital by himself he would have definitely done that.
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