Sex workers arrested following raid on brothel in Padukka

Facebook assures will protect Sri Lanka?s upcoming election

Facebook has assured it will protect Sri Lanka?s upcoming elections and has deployed teams to ensure that Facebook can play a positive role in the democratic process. The Guardian quoted Facebook as saying that over the last two years they have dedicated unprecedented resources to fighting malicious activity on our platform and, in particular, to ensuring the integrity of elections on Facebook ? including this week?s election in Sri Lanka. “Our approach includes removing fake accounts, reducin

12 Nov, 2019

Sirisena chairs his last cabinet meeting

President Maithripala Sirisena chaired his last cabinet meeting at the Presidential Secretariat today. Cabinet members said that both the President and cabinet commended each other on the work done since 2015. They said that despite differences of opinion it was agreed that considerable change was brought about in the country since 2015. Meanwhile, Sports Minister Harin Fernando tweeted saying “President for the last time sat at the cabinet. We may have had lots of differences but as People w

11 Nov, 2019

Five EU Parliamentarians join election observers on the field

Five EU Parliamentarians have joined an EU Election Observer Mission deployed to Sri Lanka to observe the 2019 Presidential election. The Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) Marisa Matias today launched the latest phase of the mission, deploying 30 short-term observers to all nine provinces in the country for election day observations. The 30 observers and five members of the European Parliament will join 30 long-term observers already on the field carrying

13 Nov, 2019