Jayampathy Wickramaratne resigns from Parliament

Police raid office of news website

The Police raided the office of a news website linked to an opposition politician today. Police officers searched the premises of the ‘News Hub’ website this morning using a search warrant. The Police said that they conducted the search operation after receiving information that? content which could promote hate among groups had been printed at the location. However, the Police said that such content had not been found at the location. Meanwhile, former Media Secretary to the Megapolis and W

26 Nov, 2019

New State Ministers and Deputy Ministers take oaths

New State Ministers and Deputy Ministers took oaths before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today. Among those who took oaths as State Ministers were former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa and Parliamentarians Vasudeva Nananayakara, Gamini Lokuge, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, S.B Dissanayake, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Susil Premjayantha and Duminda Dissanayake. Among the Deputy Ministers who took oaths were Nimal Lanza and Kanchana Wijesekera. The newly appointed State Ministers and

27 Nov, 2019

Doctors from Sri Lanka sign letter over Assange’s health

More than 60 doctors, including doctors from Sri Lanka, wrote an open letter published today saying they feared Julian Assange’s health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail, the AFP news agency reported. The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could see him given a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison. In the letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, Britain

25 Nov, 2019