Cabinet approval has been granted to provide injured military and police personnel a pension equivalent to their last drawn salary at the time of their retirement, until their demise.
This move will be in effect from today (Sept 24), the Finance Ministry said in a press release explaining that an Army officer who served in the ranks of Major will draw a pension of Rs 111,483.
Differently-abled soldiers who had been injured during the war had been engaged in a continuous protest opposite the Fort Railway Station over the last few days calling on the government to fulfill their financial demand
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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