Drug mafia rattled over locally produced medicine - Ravi Kumudesh
Leading health sector trade unionist Ravi Kumudesh says the drug mafia gets upset over moves to encourage the local production of pharmaceutical drugs.
Leading health sector trade unionist Ravi Kumudesh says the drug mafia gets upset over moves to encourage the local production of pharmaceutical drugs.
One of the groups at the Galle Face protests, Black Cap Movement, says it vehemently opposes granting a cabinet position to Namal Rajapaksa in a future all-party government.
The Vanni is currently staging a major protest demanding solutions to a shortage of kerosene oil and other problems faced by its fisher community.
A young British woman, Kayleigh Fraser, has been unaccounted for since her visa was cancelled on August 15, says the Department of Immigration and Emigration.
A return by former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to Sri Lanka is yet to be confirmed, his private secretary Sugiswara Bandara has told Neth News.
Mano Ganeshan, a former minister of national reconciliation, dialogue and state languages, says he is prepared to meet with the Sri Lankan diaspora to bring dollars into the country, but wants rulers first to declare Sri Lanka as a country not only of Sinhalese Buddhists.
Former star swimmer and social activist Julian Bolling and businessman Jonathan Martenstyn have been summoned to the CID for questioning.
India’s Adani Green Energy has been issued provisional approvals for wind energy projects in Mannar and Pooneryn, said Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara yesterday (16).
A gazette notification issued by the Transport and Highways Ministry has removed the full-face helmet law, while making it compulsory to wear protective helmets for both the rider and the pillion.
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) hierarchy has decided not to use either the name or the picture of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the party’s propaganda activities any longer, according to the Nelum Mawatha office sources.