Politics

PoliticalRakshana SriyanthaTags: Print EditionOpposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday stressed the importance of restructuring and reforming   loss-making government entities. Addressing a public meeting in Borella, Premadasa said that…

Views from trade unions, investors, entrepreneurs, academics on new labour laws will be takenPoliticalTags: Print EditionThe first draft of a new Labour Code which will be more comprehensive but flexible than the existing complex labour…

PoliticalTags: Print EditionAgriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday said that those who are trying to take the country into anarchy are against the Anti-Terrorism Bill and common   masses are not against it. “What the people of…

PoliticalTags: Print EditionSpeaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana stated that the Ballot Papers used in the secret ballot to elect a Member of Parliament to the office of President on the July 20,2022 has been destroyed. The Speaker announced…

Subject to amendments given in the determination :PoliticalIshara MudugamuwaTags: Print EditionSpeaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday announced that he has received the determination of the Supreme Court regarding the Central Bank…

PoliticalTags: Print EditionParliamentarian Hector Appuhamy was appointed as the Chair of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Foreign Employment and Labour, unanimously, in Parliament recently. The first meeting of the Committee was held…

PoliticalShiromi AbeyasingheTags: Print EditionFormer United National Party (UNP) Minister Navin Dissanayake said that the party will launch a major programme to strengthen the party after May 1. He was speaking at a press conference at the…

PoliticalTags: Print EditionLabour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said yesterday that a decision to increase the duty free allowances for goods purchased at the airport by migrant workers has been taken   depending on…

PoliticalIrangika RangeTags: Print EditionCabinet approval has been granted for the memorandum presented by Urban Development and Housing Minister Prasanna Ranatunga to sustainably run the Metro Colombo   Solid Waste Management Project…

PoliticalNuwan KodikaraTags: Print EditionPivithuru Hela Urumaya leader lawyer Udaya Gammanpila said yesterday (3) at a press conference held at the party’s headquarters that he would agree to privatization subject to five conditions.  The…