• Capital punishment should be imposed on selected crimes such as drug peddling and organised crimes 

By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera   

Laws should be introduced to regulate social media such as Tik-tok which cause huge cultural, social and national disasters, Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva said yesterday.   

He told Parliament that it was high time that immediate attention be paid to this matter and new laws brought in to regulate social media.  

He said he was not advocating for total banning of social media but a mechanism to regulate them was the need of the hour.