By Nilakshan Perera Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayake wanted to forge a cordial relationship with school children and the Police Department, after carefully studying a similar programme in Singapore and Malaysia. With the support of the then Ministry of Education and the Sri Lanka Police, the Sri Lanka Police Cadet Corps began as an attachment to […]
COLOMBO -Police imposed an overnight curfew in several parts of Sri Lanka s main city of Colombo early on Friday after protests over the government s handling of the country s worst economic crisis.
Police imposed an overnight curfew in several parts of Sri Lanka's main city of Colombo early on Friday (April 1) after protests over the government's handling of the country's worst economic crisis in decades turned violent, an official said. Hundreds of protesters gathered near President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's private residence in a Colombo suburb late on Thursday and were broken up.