Petition filed against Parliament meeting despite stay order

Stay order preventing the arrest of Gotabaya Rajapaksa extended

A stay order issued by the Court of Appeal preventing the arrest of former?Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been further extended till February 28th. The stay order was issued to the Police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID). The FCID was looking to arrest?Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the use of public funds for the construction of the D.A.Rajapaksa museum when he was the?Secretary of Defence. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had filed a petition in court against the move to arrest him.

14 Feb, 2018

SLPP warns of attempts to mislead Muslims in Sri Lanka

The?Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has warned of attempts being made to mislead the Muslims in Sri Lanka. SLPP Chairman, Professor G.L.Peiris said that following the SLPP?s resounding victory at the Local Government (LG) elections, a rumor began circulating on social media that the Bodu Bala Sena had made facebook posts in support of the SLPP. Articles then appeared in the newspapers quoting a letter written to the press by N.M.Ameen of the Muslim Council stating that SLPP cadres had alleg

14 Feb, 2018

Muthu Sivalingam appointed as Deputy Minister of Primary Industries

Nuwara Eliya District Parliamentarian and President of the Ceylon Workers? Congress (CWC) Muthu Sivalingam has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Primary Industries. He was sworn in as the Deputy Minister before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, today. The CWC had earlier said it was prepared to work with President Maithripala Sirisena.

15 Feb, 2018