News Room : Ranil steps down!
Sri Lankan-origin British MP Ranil Jayawardena has resigned from his role as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ahead of a to-be-expected cabinet reshuffling following the appointment of the UK's new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. "I know that you wish for a new team to join you in HM Government, so I write to stand aside," he...
News Room : EUR 7 mn EU funding for Mediation Boards – The Island
Tax evasion: By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday (25) said the Finance Ministry owed an explanation regarding its failure to regulate chartered accountants to increase state revenue. The former minister said so when The Island asked whether the Finance Ministry had cared to verify accusations he made in Parliament on 20 Sept., about large-scale tax evasion and the role played...
News Room : PAFFREL wants Speaker to act – The Island
Tax evasion: By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday (25) said the Finance Ministry owed an explanation regarding its failure to regulate chartered accountants to increase state revenue. The former minister said so when The Island asked whether the Finance Ministry had cared to verify accusations he made in Parliament on 20 Sept., about large-scale tax evasion and the role played...
News Room : Accusations reiterated, explanation sought from FM – The Island
Tax evasion: By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday (25) said the Finance Ministry owed an explanation regarding its failure to regulate chartered accountants to increase state revenue. The former minister said so when The Island asked whether the Finance Ministry had cared to verify accusations he made in Parliament on 20 Sept., about large-scale tax evasion and the role played...
News Room : Committee on Public Finance approves four out of five Gazettes – The Island
Tax evasion: By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday (25) said the Finance Ministry owed an explanation regarding its failure to regulate chartered accountants to increase state revenue. The former minister said so when The Island asked whether the Finance Ministry had cared to verify accusations he made in Parliament on 20 Sept., about large-scale tax evasion and the role played...
News Room : JVP plans protest in Colombo tomorrow – The Island
Tax evasion: By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday (25) said the Finance Ministry owed an explanation regarding its failure to regulate chartered accountants to increase state revenue. The former minister said so when The Island asked whether the Finance Ministry had cared to verify accusations he made in Parliament on 20 Sept., about large-scale tax evasion and the role played...
News Room : Lucky criminals – The Island
Wednesday 26th October, 2022 No sooner had Parliament passed a vital amendment to the Constitution to reduce the powers of the executive presidency in the name of the separation of powers than President Ranil Wickremesinghe made use of a controversial constitutional provision that undermines the justice system, according to legal experts. He granted an amnesty to three LTTE members convicted...
News Room : A tribute to a pioneer who united Sri Lanka – The Island
The 32nd Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara Memorial Lecture titled ‘For a country with a future’: Educational reforms Sri Lanka demands today’ delivered by Prof. Athula Sumathipala, Director, Institute for Research and Development, Sri Lanka and Chairman, National Institute of Fundemental Studies, Hanthana on Oct 13 at the National Institute of Education, Maharagama Continued From Monday (24) A pilot project is due...
News Room : The meteoric rise of Rishi Sunak!
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Monday, 24th October, is a momentous day in British political history; the day MPs of the governing Conservative Party elected Rishi Sunak as their leader, paving the way for him to become United Kingdom’s first Prime Minister of Asian descent. Sunak is a practising Hindu and, interestingly, it happened on one of the most important days...
News Room : English as medium of instruction at Law College
The step the government has taken to introduce English as the medium of instruction in the Law College will definitely ensure the quality of the lawyers produced by the Law College, and it will also increase their employability. It will help them for their higher studies and foreign employment as well. It will boost their image too in the eyes of the...