By Shamindra Ferdinando
Senior Attorney-at-Law Manoli Jinadasa Monday (24) said that illegal acts, such as arson and trespass, couldn’t be vindicated on the basis of ‘trade union’ action, under any circumstances. Thus, the normal law should operate against the perpetrators...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 24 April 2023 by the Department of Meteorology
Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Northern, North-Central, Eastern, Uva, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-Western provinces during the afternoon or night. Fairly heavy...
Two explosions have rocked a counter terrorism facility in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 50 others, police said.
Sharifullah Khan, a police official in Kabal, told Al Jazeera that at least 12 people died...
By Shamindra Ferdinando
SLPP MP Prof. G. L. Peiris has found fault with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for not paying sufficient attention to waste, corruption and economic mismanagement under the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe administration.
The former External Affairs Minister emphasised the responsibility...
by AJA Abeynayake
The Colombo Magistrate’s Court yesterday said it would not issue an order for the arrest of State Minister of Tourism Diana Gamage over the offences committed under the Immigration and Emigration Act.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis said...
World military spending reached an all-time high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fuelled a sharp jump in military spending across Europe, according to a leading defence think tank.
Global spending rose for the eighth consecutive...
World military spending reached an all-time high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fuelled a sharp jump in military spending across Europe, according to a leading defence think tank.
Global spending rose for the eighth consecutive...
Acquittal of group indicted for smuggling 197 kg of heroin
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC, will soon move the Supreme Court against the recent acquittal of five persons indicted at the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar for the possession...
BBC reported that Kenyan police have exhumed 21 bodies near the coastal town of Malindi, as they investigate a preacher said to have told followers to starve to death.
Dead children were among those exhumed, and police said they expected...
BBC reported that a group of foreign nationals have been evacuated from Sudan, as fighting between rival armies raged on in the capital Khartoum.
More than 150 people were evacuated by sea to the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah on...