Reuters: The rupee hit a record low for an eighth straight session on Friday, but closed the session firmer following intervention by the Central Bank ..
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:07 Views - 587
A pair of key plots of land within the Hambantota Port premises has been assigned to two local-based Liquid Petroleum Gas providing companies, Ministe
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:06 Views - 86
The Ministry of Public Administration, Law and Order will appoint a three-member committee from within the Ministry to investigate allegations of brib
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:05 Views - 926
The Government this week decided to give prime land in the heart of Colombo on a 99-year lease for Rs. 1.1172 billion to Access Realties. The land, ex
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:04 Views - 93
ISLAMABAD (Reuters): Islamabad has invited Saudi Arabia to become the third partner in the Beijing-funded Belt and Road corridor of major infrastructu
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:06 Views - 211
The Government yesterday reconfirmed in Parliament that it had not divested land in the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company but had incorporated two
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:05 Views - 495
www.traveller.com.au: It was the crab curry that got me. The rich, spicy sauce that ended up covering my hands and splattering my clothes. The sweet,
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:04 Views - 8
Due to the Poya holiday, the Daily FT will not be published on Monday, 24 September.
Saturday, 22 September 2018 00:10 Views - 114
Reuters: Shares dropped to their lowest close in more than 30 months on Friday as foreign investors sold banking stocks, while a weaker rupee dented i
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:09 Views - 18
Special mobile units raising awareness on the Right to Information Act are due to tour in Jaffna during the RTI Week declared to mark the Internationa
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:09 Views - 31
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya suspended the UPFA Joint Opposition group lawmakers Wimal Weerawansa and Prasanna Ranaweera for two weeks and four weeks, resp
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:09 Views - 60
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) yesterday appointed two committees to carry out party restructuring ahead of the 2019 elections. The committe
Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:09 Views - 16
The report of the Delimitation Committee for the Provincial Councils would be delayed a further two months, the Speaker’s Officeannounced yesterday.
Saturday, 22 September 2018 00:10 Views - 210
Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga became the first Sri Lankan in almost seven decades and the first ever Sri Lankan womanto be award
Saturday, 22 September 2018 00:10 Views - 35
September is the Literary Month. Writers submit their new writings to the Department of Cultural Affairs and await the results of the State Literary A
Saturday, 22 September 2018 00:08 Views - 28
President Maithripala Sirisena promised to channel more development activities to the post-war communities in the North and the East. “Every govern
Friday, 21 September 2018 00:00 Views - 67
By Skandha Gunasekara The Opposition in Parliament yesterday charged that the personal staff of Cabinet Ministers were misusing Government vehicles. J
Friday, 21 September 2018 00:00 Views - 252
By S.S. Selvanayagam The Supreme Court yesterday (20) reserved for 1 October its order on granting of leave with the Writ petitions challenging the de
Friday, 21 September 2018 00:00 Views - 85
By Skandha Gunasekara Law and Order Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara had instructed his Ministry Secretary to initiate a ministerial investigation int
Friday, 21 September 2018 00:00 Views - 58
By Nuwan Senarathna The Joint Opposition yesterday called for Provincial Council elections to be held to prevent collapse of democracy in the country.
Friday, 21 September 2018 00:00 Views - 56
The Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, E.M.M. Nandimithra Ekanayake presented his credentials to the President
Saturday, 22 September 2018
‘Indian Film,’ first published in 1963 and co-authored by former Columbia University Professor Erik Barnouw and his student Dr. Subrahmanyam Krishnaswamy, is considered a seminal study of the evolution and growth of Indian cinema. The book is cit
Saturday, 22 September 2018
There are clear signs that Pakistan’s freshly minted Prime Minister, Imran Khan, will make a sincere effort to reduce corruption and maladministration in the domestic sphere. In foreign affairs he is likely to make a brave attempt to mend fences wi
Friday, 21 September 2018
The Central Bank (CBSL) exists for the sole purpose of price stability. Its controls on the financial system and monetary policy exist to maintain price stability. As put forth many times by the Governor, the failing of the CBSL to control inflation
Friday, 21 September 2018
Shocking story Rusiripala, a former banker in Sri Lanka, who has taken to writing in Daily FT, is perturbed by the red flag I have raised (Daily FT article 18 September) over the shocking charge that our Navy had operated a ransom gang that had abduc
Friday, 21 September 2018
In its most innocent forms, we may all enjoy a bit of ‘fake news’ and go to bed with a lighter heart and clean conscience. A meme on Facebook urging social media consumers to caution – “You can’t believe everything you read on the internet
Thursday, 20 September 2018
The tax regime in Sri Lanka historically imposes WHT on both domestic as well as cross border payments. WHT on domestic payments eases revenue collection (e.g.: PAYE) while WHT on cross border payments are adopted by most countries to ensure that the
