Wijeyadasa, Tiran discuss amending Police Ordinance
A meeting took place today (23) to identify and rectify shortcomings in the Police Ordinance to suit the times.
A meeting took place today (23) to identify and rectify shortcomings in the Police Ordinance to suit the times.
None of those who said coal could be purchased at low prices have so far made an appearance at the Power Ministry, said its secretary Mapa Pathirana.
Activist and private tutor Hemapriya Kaviratne has urged public security minister Tiran Alles to make an active intervention to save children from the Ice menace by going beyond mere checks on their lunchboxes.
Two flights carrying more than 600 Russian tourists arrived at Katunayake Airport this morning (23).
Examinations chief L.M.D. Dharmasena has called for an immediate overhaul in the prevailing system of education.
Lanka Change Makers has launched a campaign against the drug methamphetamine, or Ice, that is fast becoming a menace to society.
Asanga Jayalath, a veteran in advertising, has been appointed new director general of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation by media minister Bandula Gunawardena.
Imprisonment due to drug-addiction among schoolchildren has now doubled from seven years ago, according to prison spokesman Chandana Ekanayake.
The Ministry of Public Security today (22) received 125 new jeeps as the first phase of 500 jeeps to be given to the Police under Indian loan assistance.
Two Tamil journalists operating in the Wanni were threatened by a plainclothes policeman as they covered a protest on December 19.