Japanese Ambassador Hideaki Mizukoshi yesterday (01) met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa against the backdrop of reports that Japan wouldn’t provide financial assistance due to the possibility of such being mismanaged.A section of the media quoted the Japanese envoy having said so at a meeting with a group of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members during a recent […]
Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has requested Charge d’ Affaires of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdulelah A. A. Orkobi, to facilitate Environment Minister Naseer Ahamed to visit Saudi Arabia from July 02-05 as Special Envoy of the President of Sri Lanka.The request was made when the envoy called on Prof Peiris […]
By Dinasena Ratugamage Mullaitivu Magistrate R. Saravanaraja on Thursday (30) directed police to arrest a school teacher wanted in connection with an ongoing investigation into the alleged sexual molestation of six female students. The order was issued after the police informed the Magistrate of the progress of the investigation. Police have already recorded statements of […]
Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa on Thursday (30) reiterated that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had to quit without further delay. Addressing SJB supporters in front of the Fort Railway station, Premadasa, who is also the Leader of the Opposition, emphasised the need to take tangible measures to recover stolen […]
Railway guards yesterday (01) disrupted services, demanding that they be provided petrol as they found it difficult to report to work.Railway sources said that following a tense situation and talks involving railway guards, they had been able to solve the issue. Sources said that services had been restored though some trains were cancelled.