Successive pre-Aragalaya governments appointed Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (PCoI) as well as various other committees for specific purposes to dissipate pressure from contentious issues. This despicable strategy was also used to divert
Successive pre-Aragalaya governments appointed Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (PCoI) as well as various other committees for specific purposes to dissipate pressure from contentious issues. This despicable strategy was also used to divert
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Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has accused former presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel of treason, alleging that she carried out information and sabotage activities against the country and justified Russia’s war of aggression.
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A complaint has been lodged with Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, calling for a formal investigation into the allocation of Rs. 100 million to a private television
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A Sri Lankan excise officer has been sentenced to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment for demanding and accepting a bribe from the wife of a French national in exchange for avoiding legal
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Australia’s corporate regulator is investigating the role of investment banks in promoting the initial public offering of Firmus, a data centre operator backed by Nvidia, after concerns emerged over information provided to
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More than 50 Sri Lankans have allegedly been defrauded of a total of Rs. 42.2 million after responding to Facebook advertisements offering jobs in Japan, according to a representative of the affected
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The release of You Can See Everything, a film documenting the final weeks before Elizabeth Holmes went to prison in 2023, has returned the disgraced entrepreneur and her failed blood-testing company, Theranos,
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Sri Lankan parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa has said he is prepared to spend 500 days in prison, rather than the 50 days he says he has already spent in custody, if his continued
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Alleged irregularities in medical procurement in Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have exposed vulnerabilities in public purchasing, including suspected price inflation, manipulated tenders and collusion between officials and private suppliers. As political
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Sri Lanka’s taxpayers may ultimately have to bear the cost of a USD 2.5 million fraud involving funds transferred from the Treasury to recipients overseas, Dr Harsha de Silva, chairman of Parliament’s
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Sri Lanka lost an estimated Rs 29.5 billion in potential tax revenue in 2025 because of illicit factory-made cigarette consumption, according to an economic assessment by Oxford Economics, which estimates that illegal
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Sri Lankan opposition parliamentarian D. V. Chanaka has blamed substandard coal used at the Norochcholai power plant for a nationwide electricity blackout on the 17th, alleging that the plant’s shutdown has forced
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An environmental justice advocate has called for an international tribunal to hold transnational corporations accountable for environmental damage, citing the limited compensation reportedly paid following the X-Press Pearl disaster off Sri Lanka’s
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has acknowledged that she failed the California bar exam after previously telling reporters she had passed one when she moved to China, prompting renewed scrutiny of
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Bank of America has been ordered to pay more than $1.21 billion in penalties over failures to meet US anti-money-laundering and sanctions requirements, in an enforcement action that the Treasury Department described
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