The month end saw Daily Mirror blaring “More arrests of lawyers, politicians and senior police officers are likely in the near future” following the arrest of Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne alias Harak Kata
An audit has found that Sri Lanka’s Department of Agrarian Development spent nearly 90 million rupees to construct crop storage facilities intended to support small and medium-scale farmers, yet many of the
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The Cabinet has approved the emergency purchase of 300,000 metric tons of coal in a move aimed at safeguarding national energy security amid mounting concerns over the quality of recent imports. The
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Sri Lanka’s energy sector is now mired in a scandal so blatant that it has stripped away any remaining pretence of clean governance. The importation and continued use of substandard coal at
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Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption landscape has come under renewed scrutiny following the release of the 2025 Progress Report of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, revealing widespread procedural failures across
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Sri Lanka’s long-term coal supply agreement with Trident Chemphar Ltd. will remain in force after the third shipment of coal reportedly cleared required quality standards, easing immediate concerns over supply disruptions, according
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Oxfam has been investigated over major failures in its staff vetting processes, eight years after the charity was engulfed by the Haiti sexual abuse scandal that forced it to promise sweeping reforms.
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Full-page advertisements published this week by Hatton National Bank and Commercial Bank have once again exposed a deeply entrenched culture in Sri Lanka where prestige is not earned but purchased. Splashing newspaper
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China has expelled three top-ranking military officers from the National People’s Congress, marking the latest developments in an ongoing anti-corruption campaign within the People’s Liberation Army. The Standing Committee of the NPC
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Jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is set to hear a crucial verdict on Friday in the biggest trial he faces over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a decision that could further
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A majority of judges on a Brazil Supreme Court panel voted Monday to uphold the preventive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, keeping him behind bars while he awaits the start of
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