A silent protest was held today outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Colombo by women’s rights and civil society activists to condemn Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech ridiculing a rival political leader’s personal life. The activists said the speech made at a recent political rally was highly insensitive and an insult to women’s reproductive rights.
The final rites of veteran broadcaster, writer, and lyricist Nirmala de Alwis will be held today at Peradeniya.
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The Supreme Court today ordered the owning and operating companies of the X-Press Pearl Vessel to pay US $ one billion as compensation for the environmental and economic damage it caused, after the ship sank off the Colombo Port in 2021.
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