President Ranil Wickremesinghe appoints Committee of Inquiry to investigate pre-Easter Sunday terror attack intelligence handling: Led by retired Judge De Alwis, it aims for impartiality and accountability: Deadline set for September 15, 2024, for findings presentation. SLPP National Organiser MP Namal Rajapaksa says contradictory sentiments have been made about the holding of an election by the UNP Leader and its Secretary: asserts the SLPP is against the idea of postponing the election: warns parties that had catered to the postponement of elections throughout history were decimated from existence: assures the SLPP already has a candidate for the upcoming Presidential Polls, but will not be revealed until the arrival of the appropriate time. NPP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says in light of establishing national unity, the Tamil people of Sri Lanka should be given the right-to-decision making about their community in a political landscape beyond the proposed Provincial Council System: asserts such establishment should include constitutional changes, whilst ensuring that provisions which have already been constituted for unity are implemented: laments such provisions have confined themselves into mere laws, proposing that they should be brought into a practical reality.
Eminent economists caution that IMF-led economic reforms disproportionately harm Sri Lanka’s citizens, especially women and SMEs: Prof. Jayati Ghosh advocates for alternative approaches, urging resistanc.