SLTB employees to get higher salaries from October 1st

Bhanuka Rajapaksa withdraws resignation letter

Sri Lanka cricketer Bhanuka Rajapaksa has withdrawn his resignation letter following an intervention by Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa had urged Bhanuka Rajapaksa to face the challenges before him instead of taking any hasty decisions. Bhanuka Rajapaksa had handed over his resignation letter to the Sri Lanka Cricket board recently. The Sri Lanka Cricket board had said that Rajapaksa, in his letter of resignation handed over to Sri Lanka Cricket, said the decision to resign was tak

13 Jan, 2022

Litro Gas Chairman removed and later reinstated

Litro Gas Chairman Theshara Jayasinghe was removed from his post today but was later reinstated on the instructions of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Former Housing Development Authority Chairman Renuka Perera was reported to have replaced Jayasinghe as Litro Gas Chairman. However, according to reports, the President had intervened and ordered that Jayasinghe be reinstated.

13 Jan, 2022

China razes second Buddhist statue revered by Tibetans in Sichuan province: Report

China has destroyed the second Buddhist statue revered by Tibetans late last month in western China?s Sichuan province as a part of the campaign by the Chinese dispensation to destroy religion and traditions of the ethnic minority, said a media report. Commercial satellite imagery was used to verify the destruction of a three-storey statue of Maitreya Buddha at Gaden Namyal Ling monastery in Drago (in Chinese, Luhuo) county in the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, reported Radio Fre

14 Jan, 2022