The Cabinet of Ministers yesterday approved the Broadcasting Regulatory Commission for electronic media. The spokesman Bandula Gunawardane said that the obecjtive of the commission is “to safeguard the maximum freedom of speech and expression”.
A Cabinet Sub – Committee headed by the Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms prepared a fundamental draft appropriate provisions that can be taken into consideration at the preparation of the draft bill of the proposed broadcasting regulatory commission.
The resolution was proposed by Minister of Mass Media Bandula Gunawardane who is to direct the Legal Draftsman to prepare a draft bill based on the fundamental draft.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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