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  • HEALTH, EDUCATION TO GET Rs 290 bn in 2019
    The Government has allocated Rs 185 billion for health and Rs 105 billion for education for 2019, according to the Appropriation Bill gazetted last Friday.The figures show an...
  • UNP has not politicised the Police - Hector
    The UNP has not politicised the Police or meddled in its administrative affairs while working in the Unity Government, UNP backbench MP Hector Appuhamy said.The MP was...
  • President stresses improving attendance in Parliament
    President Maithripala Sirisena stressed the need of improving attendance of Parliamentarians and having their active contribution in committee deliberations to enhance...
  • Heat wave advisory for East
    The Meteorology Department yesterday issued a heat wave advisory for the Eastern Province and the Polonnaruwa, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi Districts.The Advisory said the...
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  • Minister Samarasinghe, President’s rep for CC
    President Maithripala Sirisena has nominated Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe as the President’s representative to the Constitutional Council (CC), Parliament Chief of Staff and Deputy Secretary General...
  • Committee to probe oil spill
    The Petroleum Industries Ministry will shortly appoint a committee to probe into the oil spill in the seas off Muthurajawela, Ministry Secretary Upali Marasinghe said.He said the report of the...
  • JHONNY, GAMLATH MUM IN HOUSE FOR 3 YEARS
    Joint Opposition MPs Johnston Fernando and Siripala Gamlath had not spoken a word in Parliament for the last three years.Statistical analysis by ‘Manthri.lk’ website had found that Kurunegala...
  • SPECIAL CABINET MEETING TODAY
    A special Cabinet meeting has been scheduled for 12 pm today at the Presidential Secretariat.A senior minister confirmed that the Presidential Secretariat informed him of the special Cabinet meeting....
  • LAWS TO BAN ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN HINDU TEMPLES
    Cabinet has approved a proposal to enact laws banning the ritualistic sacrifice of animals in Hindu temples yesterday.A Cabinet memorandum in this regard submitted by Resettlement, Rehabilitation,...
  • Over 31,000 granted dual citizenship in last 3 years
    The Government has granted dual citizenship to 31,322 the last three years, the Immigration and Emigration Department said in its Performance Report for 2017.The report said 10,648 individuals had...
  • UN HR chief expresses concern
    Newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet raised concerns over recurrent incidents of “racist and inter-communal violence and plans to resume the death penalty in Sri...
  • COPA summons Western Provincial Council
    The Western Provincial Council (WPC) has been summoned before the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) on September 18.The COPA has summoned the WPC while it is embroiled in a controversy over the...
  • Salaries, fuel costs eat into Railway bottomline
    The Railway Department’s recurrent expenditure has been more than double of its total revenue last year, the Performance Report of Sri Lanka Railway (SLR) indicated.The report stated that the Railway...
  • OMP wants Enforced Disappearance Act amended
    The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) has recommended amending the Enforced Disappearances Act to expressly recognise the full scope of command responsibility, including the ordering of enforced...
  • Outgoing Serjeant-at-Arms Anil Parakrama Samarasekera officially hands over the Mace to his successor Narendra Fernando.
    Upholding the dignity of Parliament for two decades
    Every time the Members of Parliament get to the middle of the House, he rushed to the podium where the Mace is kept to prevent the MPs from grabbing it. He has intervened on countless occasions to...
  • Mahapola Higher Education Trust Fund Act to be amended
    The Government is to bring in a new Amendment to the Mahapola Higher Education Trust Fund Act to declare all its funds as ‘public property’ and thereby imposing heavy punishments for any financial...