Another Rs. 300 million sought for LG polls
Election Commission chairman Nimal Punchihewa has again asked the Treasury secretary for funding, this time a sum of Rs. 300 million, as expenditure for the local government polls.
Election Commission chairman Nimal Punchihewa has again asked the Treasury secretary for funding, this time a sum of Rs. 300 million, as expenditure for the local government polls.
The SJB vows to take to the streets with the people to safeguard their democratic right if the government prevents the holding of the local government polls.
Chairman of Supreme Lanka Council Wimal Weerawansa says a list of properties owned by Basil Rajapaksa in the United States will be revealed soon.
Two Sri Lanka Army personnel have been arrested by Borella Police over the incident of a woman being fatally shot when a weapon misfired during a raid at Dematagoda last night (13).
Civil society activists continue to denounce the police crackdown on a peaceful protest against president Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent visit to Jaffna.
Tactics of intimidation are allegedly being employed to delay election-related printing in order to postpone the local government polls, according to sources at the Government Printing Department.
After failing in all its attempts to put off the local government polls for the 21st time, the government is now plotting to block funding for the election, charged MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.
Twenty four Tamil civilians gunned down in Trincomalee 27 years ago, allegedly by the Army, were remembered on February 11.
A Tamil journalist has been remembered 14 years after he died, while on duty, in an artillery attack by the Army in Mullaitivu.
The machinery brought down to clean the coastal areas polluted by the X-Press Pearl disaster is to be used for a new purpose - to tidy up the tourism beachline.