Budget proposals for 2023 have been compiled within the frame work of the economic programme recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), President Ranil Wickremesinghe informed Parliament yesterday. The President was responding to questions raised by the opposition MPs on the budget in the House.
Patrick Thelwell, 23, pelted at least four eggs at Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, during a public walkabout in York yesterday.The Extinction Rebellion activist arrested for throwing eggs at King Charles says he has been banned from carrying eggs in public or going within 500 metres of the monarch.
The Supreme Court yesterday issued an interim order directing the authorities to immediately produce Convener of Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige before a Magistrate in terms of the law. Mudalige is currently detained under Prevention of Terrorism Act.
A Sri Lankan cricketer in Australia for the T20 World Cup choked a woman so forcefully, she had a brain scan at a hospital, court documents allege. Danushka Gunathilaka, 31, was arrested at the team’s hotel in Sydney’s CBD Sunday morning and charged with four counts of sexual assault.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has hired a new attorney-at-law to represent Sri Lankan cricketer Dhanushka Gunathilaka who was arrested over rape charges in Australia, former Legal Head of the SLC Chanaka Senaratna said.
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