Police seize 400,000 illegal cigarettes in Pettah

Former PM denies claims Hambantota Port sold to China

Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today denied claims that the Hambantota Port was sold to China. He told Parliament that the port was given to a Chinese company to be managed for 70 years. Wickremesinghe also said that the agreement can be reversed at any time. The former Prime Minister was responding to concerns raised by Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Tissa Attanayake. Attanayake condemned the decision by the former Government in which Wickremesinghe was the Prime Minister, to g

02 Dec, 2021

Sri Lanka briefs Special Rapporteur on efforts to eradicate child labour

Sri Lanka briefed the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery on efforts taken to eradicate child labour. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery including its causes and consequences Tomoya Obokata, who is currently undertaking a visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of the Government of Sri Lanka, called on Foreign Minister Prof. G.L Peiris at the Foreign Ministry. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur includes but is not limited to issues such as

01 Dec, 2021

MP seeks ban on several PC and mobile phone games

An opposition Member of Parliament (MP) has called for a ban on several computer and mobile phone based games. Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Nalin Bandara said that these games have psychologically affected some children. The MP told Parliament today that most children have got addicted to computer games. He claimed that some children have even become suicidal by playing some of these computer games. MP Nalin Bandara appealed to the Government to instruct the relevant authorities to ban these ga

01 Dec, 2021