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Pakistan downgrades diplomatic relations with India

Pakistan has decided to downgrade diplomatic relations with India, the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo quoted the Press Information Department of the Government of Pakistan as saying. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan today chaired a meeting of the National Security Committee at the Prime Minister?s Office. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, Interior Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Human Rights, Minister for KA & GB, Law Minister, Adviser Fi

07 Aug, 2019

Supreme Court dismisses five petitions in support of Bill against death penalty

The Supreme Court today dismissed five petitions filed in support of a Private Member?s Bill submitted in Parliament against the death penalty. United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian Bandula Lal Bandarigoda had submitted the Private Member?s Bill seeking to abolish the death penalty. The five petitions sought and order to declare the Bill legal. However, the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions. President Maithripala Sirisena said recently that he had been told that the Bill against th

09 Aug, 2019

MR says he will be SLPP’s Prime Ministerial candidate

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he will be the Prime Ministerial Candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). The Hindu quoted Rajapaksa as telling the Virakesari newspaper that under the 19th Amendment to the Constitution he will have more powers than the new President. While his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a powerful war-time defence secretary, is widely expected to be named presidential candidate tomorrow (Sunday), Mahinda Rajapaksa will take over the leadership of the Sri L

10 Aug, 2019