Visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, today, emphasised the importance of the involvement of young people and women in peacebuilding approaches to ensure sustainable social justice, especially in post-conflict countries like Sri Lanka.
A pistol allegedly used by the suspect military officer in the recent shooting at Aturugiriya where his wife was killed was recovered last morning from the Diyawannawa Lake near the Japanese Friendship Bridge by Aturugiriya police with the help of the army and the Navy.
The Joint Opposition, the collective of National Organizations headed by Ven. Akmeemana Dayarathna Thera and Ven. Iththe Kande Saddhatissa Thera and the Janasetha Peramuna today handed over three petitions to the United Nations (UN) office in Colombo to be handed over to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging the international community not to interfere in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka.
Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today issued arrest warrants on Indika Karunajeewa and Iresha Silva again over the two cases conducted under money laundering Charges against Namal Rajapaksa and five others over alleged purchasing of Hello Corp shares.
China’s top diplomat in the country yesterday said that the world’s second largest economy is prepared to commit over US $ 5 billion in foreign direct investments (FDIs) over the medium to long term for special economic zones, if the Sri Lankan government is prepared to authorize them.
The United Nations, the European Union, other global agencies and the international community are no longer insisting on a so called ‘credible domestic inquiry’ with the participation of foreign judges, Cabinet spokesman and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said yesterday.
To prevent unregistered motorcycles being used for illegal purposes such as highway robberies, snatching of gold chains, hit and run accidents and in an effort to collect a large amount of unpaid registration fees, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved a grace period of four months for their registration.
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today hit out at the government saying that the demolishing of the war heroes memorial in Kurunegala indicated that this government was bent on blotting out the war in Sri Lanka and that war heroes ever existed .
The joint opposition today requested President Maithripala Sirisena to make the 17-year-old student, who was arrested in Kadugannawa on chargers of hacking into the President’s official website, his Information Technology Director.
Five university students were admitted to General Hospital, Colombo during a protest at Kollupitiya Junction staged by the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) against the controversial private medical campus South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe.
Teargas was fired to disperse a group of cricket fans who were behaving in an unruly manner outside the Rangiri- Dambulla International Cricket Stadium today while attempting to purchase tickets for the fourth ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia.
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