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By Saman Indrajith The Opposition MPs yesterday disrupted Parliament sittings in protest against the government’s efforts to delay the local government polls. Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena adjourned Parliament sittings until today. Members of the main Opposition SJB gathered in the Well of the House in front of Speaker Abeywardena, blocking his view of the Chamber. […]
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, on Monday (20), urged the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JAICA) to recommence projects suspended due to ongoing financial crisis. The Premier made this request when JAICA Director General for South Asia, Ito Teruyuki, called on him. Teruyuki assured the Prime Minister that JAICA projects would be resumed once the debt restructuring […]
Public approval rating for the Ranil Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government has sunk to 10 percent, says a recent poll. According to a survey by Verite Research, a Colombo-based think tank, the government continues to have a poor, merely 10%, approval rating among the public, as shown by the results of a recent poll on the ‘Mood of […]
JJB not among the signatories to appeal Opposition political parties, except the JVP-led NPP, have appealed to the international community to exert pressure on the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government to conduct the local government polls, scheduled for 09 March. The following is the text of the letter addressed to heads of diplomatic missions in Colombo. It has been signed by […]