Ranil tops Colombo with over 500,000 votes

PUCSL Chairman recieves notice on proposed grounds of removal

The Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), Janaka Ratnayake, has recieved notice on the proposed grounds of removal. Ratnayake confirmed that notice of proposed grounds of removal has been received and a reply denying all the allegations will be sent ?to the Minister of Finance and Economic stabilization today. A charge sheet had been prepared in January to remove Janaka Ratnayake from his post. Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara had accused Ratnayake

28 Mar, 2023

Two Sri Lankan families reach Dhanushkodi and seek asylum

Two Sri Lankan families, five women, two children and an adult male, reached Tamil Nadu’s Dhanushkodi and sought asylum. The ANI news service said the Sri Lankans were found on a sand dune by fishermen who alerted the Tamil Nadu coastal Police. The coastal police in turn informed the Indian Coast Guard officials, who rescued the two families in a hovercraft from the sand dune. Eight people — five women, two children and an adult male — had reached the sand dune near Dhanushkodi from Sri Lanka

28 Mar, 2023

Demand for ethnic recognition in Pakistan census

Islamabad [Pakistan], March 20 (ANI): Authors, politicians, analysts, and journalists have emphasised the need of including ethnic recognition in the ongoing Pakistan census rather than language, Dawn reported. They opined that language-based identification was unfair since it would cause various ethnic groups, especially Baloch, to have lower real populations in the national data. Speaking during a seminar on ?Census and National Languages? conducted at the Noshki district council hall, they e

27 Mar, 2023