… frowns on Premadasa’s presence at COPF meeting By Saman Indrajith Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena told Parliament yesterday that the Leader of the Opposition could summon...
By Shamindra Ferdinando UNDP Resident Representative in Colombo, Azusa Kubota, accompanied international expert on parliamentary development, Kevin Deveaux, to meet Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena at the...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced to the House yesterday (10) that he has endorsed the certificate on the Inland Revenue (Amendment) Bill in accordance with Article...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena informed Parliament yesterday that the Supreme Court had observed that the amendment to the Penal Code to decriminalize homosexuality was not inconsistent...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday announced that the ballot papers used in the secret vote to elect President had been destroyed. The vote was conducted on...
SJB MP Eran Wickramaratne yesterday (08) tabled two private member’s Bills to amend both the Value Added Tax Act No. 14 of 2002 (as amended) and...
Wimal: Rs 1.1 bn sufficient By Shamindra Ferdinando Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has declared that he didn’t have the authority to summon Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who engineered a high profile project that culminated with Sri Lanka betraying her armed...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Narendra Fernando, Sergeant-at-Arms of the crisis-ridden Parliament, has declared that the largest number of students, in the post-independence era, visited the House on...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana yesterday (08) announced that the proposed appointment of 17 Sectoral Oversight Committees had been included in the Order Paper of the Parliament....