A special Party Leaders' meeting to discuss the current situation of the country will be held virtually via Zoom at 3.00pm today (11).
The meeting had been scheduled to be held in Parliament physically but Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said last night that it had been cancelled owing to safety concerns of MPs.
However, it has now been decided to hold the meeting as scheduled in a virtual setting.
Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) General Secretary and MP Jeevan Thondaman took to Twitter last night calling for the party leaders' meeting to be held virtually. He was supported by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M.A. Sumanthiran.
Parliament is due to convene on May 17.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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