Bakery owners decide to increase price of bread

Court determines FCID is legal and rejects objections

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today determined that the police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) is legal and rejected the objections raised against the work it carries out. The court found that the FCID has every legal right to conduct investigations within the mandate given to the police unit. The FCID was formed on the 26th of February last year. The FCID is tasked with investigating major financial crime, fraud, unsolicited mega projects, major financial crimes against public

24 Oct, 2016

UN in Sri Lanka adapting and refocusing its work

The United Nations says it has been adapting and refocusing its work in Sri Lanka with evolving global and national development priorities. United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Una McCauley said that this year the UN has scaled up its interventions to support the Government?s peacebuilding, reconciliation and governance agendas, to tackle the impacts of climate change, promote universal norms and values, localize the Sustainable Development Goals and engage youn

24 Oct, 2016

Hartal to be staged in North against killing of two students

A hartal is to be staged in the North on Tuesday against the killing of two students in Jaffna last week. Tamil National Alliance, Northern Provincial Council member M.K. Sivajilingham said that several Tamil political parties in the North will take part in the protest. He said there is a concern that state sponsored terrorism was behind the killing of the two Jaffna university students. Sivajilingham said that university students in other parts of the country are also expected to protest thi

23 Oct, 2016