It has been revealed in Parliament yesterday (22) that a senior official in the Presidential Secretariat has continued to exert pressure on the Town Hall branch of the People's Bank to extend special support to United Farmers Trust Limited, which has won the contract to import nano nitrogen from India to Sri Lanka.

Former Speaker and the Chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) Karu Jayasuriya has appealed to all parties to put an end to all acts of retaliation and to exercise restraint and patience to resolve issues plaguing the country.

Former Sri Lankan Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka made a shocking revelation in parliament on Thursday (21), when he pointed fingers at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) claiming they had tapped his mobile phone, including his WhatsApp phone conversations.

Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena has submitted a proposal to take over the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), a leading non-state degree awarding institute approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the Universities Act, under the government, it is learnt.

The General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union, Joseph Stalin says that the strike conducted by the teachers' unions has proven to be 98% successful.

UNP is to be handed over to a youthful team, which will take the party and the nation to a new era just like its founder leader late Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake did, Party Leader cum Member of Parliament Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday (20).

The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced an additional USD 2.5 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance for Sri Lanka.

Chairman of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) Dr Prasanna Gunasena and Managing Director Lalith Jayakody have resigned from their posts, government sources said.

Unilever Sri Lanka is being accused of committing a tax fraud of over Rs. 570 million in importing raw materials for its products, according to sources at the Customs Department.

Daham Sirisena, the son of former President and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) leader Maithripala Sirisena, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Youth Front in the Polonnaruwa electorate.