Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh's two-day visit to Sri Lanka beginning September 2 has been deferred due to unavoidable circumstances, a government statement said on Friday night.
Freelance Tamil journalists Antony Christopher Christiraj (left), Selvakumar Nilanthan (center), and Valasingham Krishnakumar (right), were held by a mob for five hours on August 22, 2023. (Photo : Valasingham Krishnakumar)
The Court of Appeal has issued interim orders as sought by the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) against the governor of the eastern province Senthil Thondaman in a case that challenges his orders to prevent proposed exploration for mineral sand in Trincomalee district.
Defence Minister of India, Shri Rajnath Singh is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on 02-03 September, 2023 to review bilateral defence ties.
Despite the Right to Information (RTI) Act’s proactive disclosure requirement, only 18% and 25% of information required to be disclosed on large-scale infrastructure projects were proactively disclosed online in 2022 and 2023 respectively, according to Verité Research.
Hundreds of trade unionists and civil society activists staged a protest demonstration in Colombo this week demanding the Central Bank to totally exempt the superannuation funds from the domestic debt optimization (DDO) programme.
22 Sri Lankan students, from across the country, have been awarded full scholarships by Government of India to study Hindi in India.
The Army-sponsored new structures at Kurundi Temple at Kurunthurmalai archaeological site in Mullaitivu have been found to be in contravention of a previous court order.
The UNP held a training workshop for its activists at Sirikotha yesterday (31) on how to raise awareness among the masses on the political message of the party and its leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) filed a fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court yesterday (31) seeking a transparent probe into the deaths of patients and complications caused by substandard drugs.
