Colombo Additional Magistrate Chandana Kalansooriya today refused to issue a stay order, requested by the Welikada Police to prevent the protest march organised by the Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) entering the high security zone near Parliament.
State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene today said that Sri Lanka's strategic location in the Indian Ocean had been a connecting point of the East and West and the country is looking at the future with great expectations to regain our maritime glory in the Indian Ocean by mainly promoting trade and tourism.
The rashness demonstrated by the new regime in making tax policies has not only made the business of brewing tougher than ever but also pushed the people towards hard liquor, which is arguably more detrimental to health.
Partnerships of like-minded nations should be strengthened to uphold the rules-based global system to continue along a prosperous path, Admiral Harry B. Harris of the US Navy said in his key note speech at the Galle Dialogue 2016, held in Colombo today.
Sri Lanka and 46 other countries including Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives, which represent the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) had discussed the need to skip fossil fuel stage and move directly on to green energy, the Independent reported.
The supplementary estimate presented in Parliament on Saturday seeking Rs. 790 million as expenditures for vehicles and foreign tours showed the Government was suffering from a ‘vehicle mania’ (Ratha Gaya) and a ‘foreign tour mania’ (Rata Gaya), the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said today.
Security Director of Sri Lanka Cricket and Former Special Task Force (STF) Commandant DIG K. L. M. Sarathchandra, who was arrested on charges of misusing a vehicle attached to the STF, was released on bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today.
Outlining Sri Lanka’s foreign policy in the wake of new global situation, the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said the election of Donald Trump as the US’s new President would not be the end of the USA’s aim of dominating the world.
Three women, including the wife, and a daughter of MP Lohan Ratwatte, had been admitted to the Karapitiya Hospital, when two vehicles collided head-on at Yakgaha near the Pinnaduwa point of entry on E01 last night, the Police said.
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