Amendments recommended by the Supreme Court to the Right to Information Bill will be accepted by the government.
According to the Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media, Karunarathna Paranawithana those amendments are mostly technical changes and if they are accepted and applied the Bill can be passed with a simple majority instead of a special majority.
The RTI Bill was submitted to Parliament for its first reading on 24th March and the second submission will be made soon.
The Government official news portal is maintains by the New Media Unit of the Department of Government Information and it was titled "news.lk" and commenced in mid1996 and release to Internet from March 01st, 1997.
News.lk publishes in three languages – Sinhala, Tamil and English.
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