The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) inquiring into the Easter Sunday terror attacks has taken a decision not to open its proceedings to the news media on selected days, PSC Chairman Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarasiri said yesterday.
UN: The world population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report released Monday said. The population could then grow to 11 billion by 2100, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’s “World Population Prospects” report.