In the wake of Labour Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, Senior Vice President of the SLFP declaring his opposition to the proposed surcharge tax on EPF...
By Shamindra Ferdinando A person shot by a police commando during a search operation in the Egodauyana police area in Moratuwa on Thursday night (10) has...
The ongoing health sector strike by 31 unions has made the poorest of the poor absolutely helpless, the Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) says. Issuing a...
The Punjab government has decided to move the trial in the lynching of Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara from Gujranwala to Lahore. Priyantha, who was...
Sri Lanka’s government recently introduced a bill to amend its abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Foreign Ministry hailing it as a “most progressive step”...
The Health Ministry disclosed yesterday that over one million Sri Lankans had not received even the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The Ministry said that more...
Referring to allegations levelled against him in Parliament on Thursday, MP Tissa Kuttiarachchi raising a privilege issue yesterday said that he had no links to the...
The government has decided in an unprecedented manner to impose a 25% surcharge on the income of the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), which has never been...
Human Rights Advocate Ambika Satkunanathan has alleged that the culture of impunity is well documented, not only by civil society organisations, human rights defenders and the...
Opposition to the proposed surcharge tax of 25 percent on workers’ social security and welfare funds is growing with a collective of trade unions representing several...