A number of issues have risen after bus permits were issued by Northern Province District secretaries with no proper procedure, SLTB chief regional manager in Jaffna - Upali Kiriwaththuduwa says.

The Sterling Group Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd. has alleged that it had paid a Rs. one million bribe to the then investment promotion minister and the deputy director general of the BOI in order to get permission to close its facility at the Malwatte export processing zone in Nittambuwa and to get Rs. 18,285,800 of its money cleared.

A SriLankan Airline hostess attached to the presidential secretariat during the Rajapaksa regime had been paid Rs. 1.5 million as an flying allowance, which she is not entitled to, reports say.

A WHO research conducted in Paris in 2015 shows that five pesticides in the organophosphate group, including glyphosate, cause cancer in humans.

Fifteen and 20 out of every 100 Sri Lankans respectively suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure, says the Family Health Bureau.