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HR complaint to be lodged over vehicle taxes
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 13:09The organization for the protection of consumer rights alleges that by raising vehicle taxes, an atmosphere has been created for only the affluent to buy vehicles.
Fonseka, Namal alone in elevator
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 10:10Minister, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka and MP Namal Rajapaksa, eldest son of the ex-president, had travelled in the parliament elevator alone recently.
Sri Lanka will not prosecute those responsible for disappearances
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 08:49The government of Sri Lanka will not take legal action against those found to have been responsible for enforced disappearances.
Call against sending housemaids to ME
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 08:46The president and several ministers, at yesterday’s (31) cabinet meeting, spoke of gradually minimizing the number of Sri Lankan women being sent to Middle Eastern countries as housemaids.
‘Next step is Rajitha’s removal’ - GMOA
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 08:24Nepotism in the health ministry should stop, or else the next step will be the removal of minister Rajitha Senaratne, warns the GMOA’s assistant secretary Dr. Nalinda Herath.
Norwegian state secretary visits Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 31 May 2016 22:08State Secretary Tore Hattrem visits Sri Lanka today to have bilateral meetings and to develop further the business cooperation between Sri Lanka and Norway.
‘Credibility of transitional justice mechanisms is essential’
Tuesday, 31 May 2016 22:04Among the festering wounds of Sri Lanka’s protracted war that came to its bitter end 7 years ago is the fate of at least 20,000 persons who went missing and whose names have been registered with the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (the Commission) which was established in August 2013, says the National Peace Council.
Basil’s secretary harboured by PM’s office
Tuesday, 31 May 2016 22:03A top politician has prevented the arrest of Hema Premawardena, additional secretary to the prime minister, by the FCID on May 26.