Sexual demands, groping, touching, lude comments and verbal abuse of helpless and silent female employees are common occurrences inside the glamourous offices of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) according to the official testimony of a former female Executive officer of the country’s most internationally recognized corporate body.
Former President and Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that if anyone found the US$18 billion that the government alleges he has stored in secret offshore accounts, he would use it to remove the tax imposed on medicine and use the money to give relief to patients.
The Chairman of SAITM and its Teaching Hospital in Malabe, Dr. Neville Fernando yesterday said that SAITM would no longer be responsible for the 26 human body parts recently confiscated by the CID from the SAITM laboratory during a search operation to locate the missing body parts of murdered ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen.
Quad Copter, an aircraft used for providing instant information to the mission control centres from the air in connection to Global Disaster Risk Analysis, Prevention and Mitigation Application, was locally produced by the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Centre for Research and Development, the MoD announced today.
The United Nations Rapporteur on minority issues today recommended the government establish a fully empowered independent commission for minority issues is included in constitutional reforms to implement mandates and foster relations between communities.
Colombo Fort Magistrate today granted the FCID request to issue an arrest warrant through Interpol on Udayanga Weeratunga, a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia in connection with the investigation into the huge financial loss caused to the Government in purchasing Ukraine-built MiG-27 aircraft in 2006.
Six years after the vessel-MV Sun Sea-with nearly 500 Sri Lankan Tamils aboard arrived off the coast of British Colombia (BC), four men who were charged with human-smuggling saw their trial open Wednesday in BC Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada.
A Sri Lankan woman was arrested for running a liquor factory in Faiha area after security operatives confiscated 10 barrels of alcohol, 400 bottles of ready-made liquor, 13 pumps for distillation, and raw materials for brewing the contraband.
Former Army Commander Lt. General Daya Ratnayake arrived at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) to give a statement.
Indian Foreign Secretary S.Jaishankar is to visit Sri Lanka with a business delegation this weekend, to promote Indian business and investment in the island nation in accordance with the Narendra Modi government’s policy of using diplomacy to promote India’s trade and investment abroad.
President Maithripala Sirisena never attempted to defend former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in his speech at the SLFI on the 12th but only expressed his displeasure over the treatment on former Navy Commanders, when they were summoned to the courts on the Avant- garde floating armoury case, Cabinet Spokesman Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said.
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