Stakeholders to meet Minister to discuss issues this week Funds allocated by Govt. for replanting, research and promotions ...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 506
$ 80 million for LPG storage terminal in H’tota to be the largest in South Asia Constructed by China Huanqiu Con...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 444
Multiple lending has caused serious concerns in microfinance sector Sri Lanka’s banking and finance watchdog, t...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 427
Julius & Creasy’s Dr. Swaminathan to lead IPACSL Seven members named to IPACSL as Govt. aims to complete Madrid entry proces...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:58 Views - 1053
IMF says Cabinet approval of the automatic pricing mechanism for fuel by March 2018, electricity by September 2018 CEB and CPC financi...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 453
New ADB and UNDP report estimates $ 54-56 billion investment necessary Highly ambitious target a big leap towards achieving ...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 430
Calls on Insurance Board of Sri Lanka (IBSL) to lobby Govt. to make amendments About 5.7 million in labour force have no insuran...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 180
Cabinet-Appointed Procurement Committee tasked with selecting consultant to place market-specific promotional material ...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:58 Views - 915
Tea auctions this week had good demand, tea brokers said yesterday with a total of 7.5M/kgs coming under the hammer with positive demand from the M...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 374
Backs Auditor General’s appeal for speedy implementation Says surcharging powers should remain but appeal procedure n...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:45 Views - 852
Newly minted Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana yesterday asserted there is no chance of Sri Lanka having foreign judges in the post war accountabilit...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:42 Views - 853
Australian gender equality advocate Elizabeth Broderick (AO) is currently in Sri Lanka to engage business and public leaders on promoting gender eq...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:36 Views - 716
Crown lawyers in Canada are seeking an 18-year prison sentence for a Sri Lankan man convicted of human smuggling for his role in the voyage of the ...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:16 Views - 735
Political Science Students of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka were recently given the opportunity to learn in detail about the Constituti...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:12 Views - 770
Targets increasing trade between the two countries to $500m by 2020 The visit of the State Minister of International Trade of Sri Lank...
Monday, 21 August 2017 00:00 Views - 319
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday opened the new municipal council buildings of Kattankudy and Eravur in the Batticaloa District. Here ...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:44 Views - 741
Cabinet of Ministers granted approval to construct 50,000 brick and mortar type houses for the conflict affected families in the Northern and Easte...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:41 Views - 763
By S. S. Selvanayagam The Court of Appeal yesterday issued notice on the Divisional Secretary of Jaffna, returnable for 6 September, in res...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:35 Views - 709
President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday joined other world leaders in condemning a terrorist attack in Spain that left at least a dozen people dea...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:15 Views - 747
Deprived school children in Mulankavil Maha Vidyalayam and Nallur Maha Vidyalayam in Poonalari Divisional Secretariat experienced difficulties in a...
Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:10 Views - 757
The Government will work to complete 700 rural bridges by the end of the year and improve rural economies. “As Sri Lanka...
21 August 2017
Minister Susil Premajayantha speaking at the biotech degree launch Northumbria University’s biotechnology degree in Sri Lanka At a recent event at which the UK-based Northumbria University’s BSc Honours Degree in biotec...
21 August 2017
I am indeed glad to pen my 300th column. It began as a weekly column and due to my challenging commitments, now it appears bimonthly. I am also honoured to devote this special column to share memories of my mentor. In fact, this article is on the ...
19 August 2017
Given its seemingly-intractable problems with neighbours Pakistan and China, India has been reaching out to friendlier countries beyond the region, both to its West and the East. In the East, its key partners are Japan and the Association ...
18 August 2017
How did some nations, like a Japan, China, United Stated, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, prosper for periods and then collapse? Pol...
