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HNB syndicates Rs.9 billion loan for waste-to-energy plant Uncategorized

HNB syndicates Rs.9 billion loan for waste-to-energy plant

* First of its kind in Sri Lanka * BOC, DFCC and People’s Bank join as co-lenders Hatton National Bank has syndicated a nine billion rupee loan for Western…

04 Jun 2018
PC polls before year end Uncategorized

PC polls before year end

Provincial Council elections will be held before the end of the year, President Maithripala Sirisena had said yesterday. He was addressing newly appointed…

04 Jun 2018
Sri Lanka kick off Women’s Asia Cup with rout of Bangladesh Uncategorized

Sri Lanka kick off Women’s Asia Cup with rout of Bangladesh

KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday: Sri Lanka kicked off their Women's Asia Cup campaign in style, knocking Bangladesh over for 63 and then chasing down the target with five…

04 Jun 2018
Release names of 118: CaFFE writes to Aloysius, Palisena Uncategorized

Release names of 118: CaFFE writes to Aloysius, Palisena

Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Centre for Human Rights and Research Sri Lanka (CHR) Executive Director Keerthi Tennakoon has sent a letter to…

04 Jun 2018
Matara - Colombo Expressway fares to be reduced to Rs 460 from July 1 Uncategorized

Matara - Colombo Expressway fares to be reduced to Rs 460 from July 1

Commuters will benefit while the NTC will lose millions from July 1, 2018 when super luxury buses plying between Matara and Colombo on the southern expressway…

04 Jun 2018
SLFP resolves to ask PM to quit Uncategorized

SLFP resolves to ask PM to quit

The SLFP parliamentary group, at a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena, last night, at his official residence in Colombo 07, unanimously resolved to…

03 Jun 2018
Ministries barred from purchasing new vehicles Uncategorized

Ministries barred from purchasing new vehicles

Government ministers have been directed not to purchase new vehicles to Ministries or for their official use as the Treasury has to handle new expenditure…

03 Jun 2018
Field Marshal receives Rs 100,000 from Aloysius Uncategorized

Field Marshal receives Rs 100,000 from Aloysius

Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that he, too, received about Rs100,000 from tainted businessman Arjun Aloysius at the last parliamentary…

31 May 2018
Death toll due to Pneumonia rises to twelve Uncategorized

Death toll due to Pneumonia rises to twelve

Five patients who sought treatment for Pneumonia at the Matara General Hospital during the last few days, have died, the inquirer into sudden deaths T.M.…

30 May 2018
Aloysius never offered us money: Hadunnetti Uncategorized

Aloysius never offered us money: Hadunnetti

JVP MP Sunil Hadunnetti said Perpetual Treasuries Ltd., owner Arjun Aloysius had never offered any money to Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MPs and pointed out…

30 May 2018
Dayasiri no balls Malinga! Uncategorized

Dayasiri no balls Malinga!

Former Minister of Sports Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday (28) said that Sri Lanka’s fast bowler and Former Twenty-20 Skipper Lasith Malinga could have made a…

29 May 2018
India develops Most Ven. Maduluwave Sobitha Thero Village in Anuradhapura Uncategorized

India develops Most Ven. Maduluwave Sobitha Thero Village in Anuradhapura

At a special ceremony held on 27 May, the foundation stone was laid to start the construction work for development of Most Ven Maduluwave Sobitha Thero Village…

29 May 2018
VAT TO BE REDUCED BY 2.5% IN 2020 Uncategorized

VAT TO BE REDUCED BY 2.5% IN 2020

Even after 70 years of independence, Sri Lanka could not achieve peace as our people were still quarreling on the basis of race, religion and party politics,…

28 May 2018
UPDATE 1-Sri Lanka accepts $1 bln, 8-yr syndicated loan from China Dev Bank Uncategorized

UPDATE 1-Sri Lanka accepts $1 bln, 8-yr syndicated loan from China Dev Bank

COLOMBO, May 25 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has accepted an eight-year China Development Bank $1 billion syndicated loan to repay loans maturing this year, two top…

28 May 2018
13 dead, 125,954 affected Uncategorized

13 dead, 125,954 affected

The death toll due to floods and landslides has risen to 13 by last evening, while 32,136 families have been displaced, Director General, Disaster Management…

25 May 2018
SLC tie up with new Casual Clothing Partner Uncategorized

SLC tie up with new Casual Clothing Partner

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has joined hands with LiCC (Long Island Clothing Company) as the organization’s Official Casual Clothing Partner. With this timely…

24 May 2018
China strongly committed to helping Sri Lanka become prosperous: Envoy Uncategorized

China strongly committed to helping Sri Lanka become prosperous: Envoy

China yesterday expressed stronger commitment to help Sri Lanka realize its goal to become a prosperous country, allaying fears over growing engagement and…

24 May 2018
Pushparaj wins silver at Austrian International Championship Uncategorized

Pushparaj wins silver at Austrian International Championship

Sri Lankan bodybuilding champion Lucion Pushparaj won a silver medal at the Austrian International Bodybuilding Championship held in Vienna, Austria, on 19 May…

23 May 2018
Lankans ready for West Indies pace challenge Uncategorized

Lankans ready for West Indies pace challenge

Skipper Chandimal confident of winning if team plays to potential The challenge for Sri Lanka is to win their maiden Test series in the Caribbean. They came…

23 May 2018
Milestone marks from Mangala Uncategorized

Milestone marks from Mangala

After completing year as Finance Minister insists sound macroeconomic fundamentals exist for stronger growth Higher tax revenue, investments, FDIs, export…

23 May 2018
Govt.’s net borrowings equal to foreign reserves: Cabraal Uncategorized

Govt.’s net borrowings equal to foreign reserves: Cabraal

Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal yesterday charged that the net borrowings by the present government almost equal the country’s current…

22 May 2018
Lord Naseby meets Sri Lankan Diaspora at House of Lords Uncategorized

Lord Naseby meets Sri Lankan Diaspora at House of Lords

One of the 1st events representing Sri Lankan Diaspora at the House of Lords Last week, the UK Parliament paid tribute to the Sri Lankan community living in…

22 May 2018
SLNS Sagara returns home on completion of successful naval exercise Uncategorized

SLNS Sagara returns home on completion of successful naval exercise

Sri Lanka Naval Ship Sagara which left the island for Indonesia on last 24th April to attend Komodo-2018 Naval exercise and International Fleet Review, on…

19 May 2018
Necessary information provided to Interpol for Udayanga’s extradition. Uncategorized

Necessary information provided to Interpol for Udayanga’s extradition.

Sri Lanka has presented a strong case to Interpol as regards its efforts to have former Sri Lanka Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine extradited in connection…

19 May 2018