‘Yugadanavi is one among many contentious issues’ By Shamindra Ferdinando State Minister Jayantha Samaraweera says the country wouldn’t have been in such turmoil today if the top political leadership consulted constituents of the ruling coalition. Kalutara District National Freedom Front (NFF) lawmaker Samaraweera said that a simmering dispute over Yugadanavi deal that ended up in […]
Accident wards, maternity units, paediatric, cancer and kidney hospitals spared By Rathindra Kuruwita The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) would launch a countrywide strike today, GMOA Secretary Dr. Senal Fernando said yesterday. Dr. Fernando said that they had held a token strike on Monday as the post-internship appointments had been made by the Ministry of […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando The National Freedom Front (NFF) says the ongoing investigations into Dr. Shafi Shahabdeen’s alleged involvement in Easter Sunday attackers and nonconseual sterilisation of women in Kurunegala had been seriously weakened by the government’s controversial decision to pay him back wages. The Constituent party of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday […]
By Saman Indrajith The country’s economy cannot be shored up without plugging the holes such as MPs pensions, mansions for ministers and maintenance of former presidents, security and other provisions for politicos, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says. Addressing the national convention of the JVP-led NPP at Imperial Monarch at Sri Jayewardenepura, yesterday, the JVP […]
By Akitha Perera Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa again yesterday to pardon former MP Ranjan Ramanayake. Speaking to journalists after a visit to the Welikada Prison to see Ramanayake, Opposition leader Premadasa said: “Ranjan Ramanayake was not imprisoned for murder or theft. He spoke on behalf of the people. […]