Over 280 prisoners to be pardoned by President

Disinformation by media over damage to glass cover of Mawanella Buddha statue

Police investigations have revealed that disinformation had been spread by the media over the damage caused to the glass cover of a Buddha statue in Mawanella. Police Spokesman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said that some media had claimed that extremism or terrorism was linked to the incident. He said that similar claims were spread over social media as well but investigations have found that the claims are false. The glass cover surrounding the statue in the Hingula area in M

05 Jan, 2021

Venerable Athuraliya takes oaths as an MP

The Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero was sworn-in as a Member of Parliament of the 9th Parliament today. The name of the Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero was gazetted by the National Election Commission to fill the National List Parliament seat won by Our Power of People Party (Ape Janabala Party) at the last General Election. The Our Power of People Party secured 67,758 votes in the Parliamentary Election held in August and was allocated one National List seat in Parliament. Initially, t

05 Jan, 2021

After getting Rs4.6 bn, Broadsheet seeks Rs483m more

The Government of Pakistan has made a payment of nearly $29 million under a London High Court order to the Broadsheet LLC but the litigation is far from over as liquidating agents of the assets recovery firm are seeking several million more from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), $3 million (approx Rs483 million) in interests and costs at the rate of $5,000 per day. An agent of the Broadsheet LLC has told this reporter that the NAB still owes the Broadsheet $3 million and interest rate o

05 Jan, 2021