Sri Lanka, Sept. 12 -- Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne adjourned Parliament for 10 minutes yesterday following a tense situation that arose in the House.

The suspension was triggered by the tense situation that arose following the Speaker's rejection of the No Confidence Motion (NCM) submitted by the Opposition against Deputy Defence Minister Major General (Retd.) Aruna Jayasekara.

The adjournment of Parliament took place after the Opposition members came to the middle of the House and staged a protest in the chamber against the Speaker's decision on the No-Confidence Motion when the protesting opposition MPs demanded that the Attorney General's advice and other reports pertaining to the matter be tabled in Parliament. The situation was fu...