Quarry owner mines for gems in Galoya national park
A quarry owner from Bibile is allegedly involved in gem-mining in the Galoya national park, alleges the Centre for Environmental and Nature Studies(CENS).
A quarry owner from Bibile is allegedly involved in gem-mining in the Galoya national park, alleges the Centre for Environmental and Nature Studies(CENS).
French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
A collective of national organizations has appreciated the Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s (SJB) stand with regard to the 22nd amendment to the constitution, said the opposition leader’s media unit.
Sri Lanka has neither imported nor received donations of questionable Indian cough and cold syrups, against which the World Health Organization has issued an alert, said health minister Keheliya Rambukwella.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite a programme to provide welfare benefits to 3.1 million low-income families.
A new resolution titled promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka was adopted today, was adopted by majority vote yesterday (06) at the 51st regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe should implement his repeated assurances to annul the 20th amendment to the constitution like “words inscribed in stone”, said former speaker Karu Jayasuriya.
BANGKOK, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former policeman killed 34 people on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care centre in Thailand, with media reporting the gunman later shot and killed himself.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for an end to past rivalries and to join a common effort to overcome Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in the recent past.
Newly-elected chairman of the Planters Association Senaka Alawattegama has called for a wage reform towards a productivity-linked wage model as the only “practical way forward.”