COLOMBO (News1st): The Sri Lanka Amarapura – Ramanna Samagari Maha Sangha Sabha announced today that the government has ignored the Sri Lanka Amarapura and Ramanna Sects, which represent two-thirds of the Maha Sangha in the country. The Maha Sangha Sabha made this statement citing that the presidential commission’s report on the 2019 April 21st attacks had [3/3/2021] …
COLOMBO (News1st): The companies that have received lands for large scale cultivations near the Rambakan Oya forest reserve were revealed by a former parliamentarian on Wednesday. I have obtained information from the Mahaweli Authority through the Right to Information Act, Wasantha Piyatissa, a former Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna parliamentarian said. The details as revealed by the former lawmaker [3/3/2021] …
: Official sources have expressed surprise over remarks made by the government that the Indian High Commission had agreed on a proposal to develop the Colombo Port’s West Container Terminal (WCT) with India’s Adani Group. The ministerial cabinet, on Monday, approved a proposal to develop the WCT with India’s Adani Ports and Special [3/3/2021] …
: India are yet to formally announced their stance on Sri Lanka in relation to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Indian Representative who addressed the 46th UNHRC Session last month said that India expects that Sri Lanka would fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in the country. Secretary to [3/3/2021] …
: Opposition lawmaker Kabir Hashim has responded to claims made by State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal on the previous government in Jaffna last week. Cabraal had claimed that the previous government had not obtained debt to construct towers, ports, cricket stadiums, conference halls, or luxurious restrooms for the country’s leaders. We obtained loans [3/3/2021] …
Attorney-at-law Hejaaz Hizbullah and Principal of the Wanathawilluwa Puttlam Madrasa School Mohammed Shakeel were further remanded till the 18th of March. The remand order was made after the duo were produced before Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage on Wednesday (03). They were earlier arrested under charges of aiding and abetting and having close links [3/3/2021] …
Detectives traced the location of the killer responsible for the murder of a woman and placing her headless body inside a traveling bag, by tracking the movement of his mobile phone, it was revealed on Wednesday (02). Sri Lanka Police said during its extensive investigation following the detection of a traveling bag with [3/3/2021] …
Official sources have expressed surprise at the mention of the approval by the Indian High Commission to Sri Lanka with regard to the Public-Private Partnership with the Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited on the West Container Terminal project of the Colombo South Port. Sources stressed that the investments in Sri Lanka [3/3/2021] …
Attorney General Dappula De Livera has directed the Inspector General of Police to arrest all Suspect Police Officers of the Peliyagoda Police involved in the assault of law student Migara Gunaratne. State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, the Coordinating Officer to the Attorney General told News 1st that the IGP was also directed to produce [3/3/2021] …
: Badalkumbura Police has discovered a letter with regard to the Sub Inspector who committed suicide after being identified as the perpetrator who murdered a woman and left her headless body inside a travelling bag in Dam Street, Colombo, Sri Lanka Police said on Wenesday (Mar. 03). The magisterial inquest of the Sub-Inspector [3/3/2021] …
