Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa didn’t like to split, leave or harm for the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and he didn’t even show a sign of doing such thing, State Minister for higher education Mohan Lal Grero stated in an event held in Mt. Lavinia yesterday.
Kumar Gunaratnam - the controversial political activist holding an Australian citizenship - who was released yesterday after completing his prison term has been granted a two-month visa to submit his application for a citizenship in Sri Lankan, the Daily Mirror learns.
The parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) will probe the Rs.18 billion rice import scam in which both the present and the previous regimes were allegedly involved, COPE Chairman and JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti told Parliament today.
Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi was reported to have told former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his entourage that China was opposed to any ‘external intervention’ in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and the use of human rights as a political tool.
Several private bus operators who were involved in today’s bus strike have requested for a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena and Transport Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva at 5 p.m. today, the Transport Ministry said.
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