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Colombo Port gets competitiveness boost. Uncategorized

Colombo Port gets competitiveness boost.

Collaborate to compete! The terminal operators of Colombo Port yesterday made a bid to improve its efficiency by signing a landmark Memorandum of Understanding…

15 Mar 2018
Malabe - ‘Sri Lanka’s fastest growing residential & IT hub’ Uncategorized

Malabe - ‘Sri Lanka’s fastest growing residential & IT hub’

Malabe is a suburb of the greater Colombo area, in the Colombo district, Western Province of Sri Lanka. A predominantly residential area Malabe is now rapidly…

15 Mar 2018
Facebook expresses concern over Sri Lanka ban Uncategorized

Facebook expresses concern over Sri Lanka ban

Facebook said Wednesday it was responding to Sri Lanka's concerns over incendiary material shared on its platform and hoped internet restrictions imposed…

15 Mar 2018
Japanese –Sri Lankan state leaders agree to strengthen bilateral ties Uncategorized

Japanese –Sri Lankan state leaders agree to strengthen bilateral ties

Japanese Prime minister says that he would work towards provide funds, without loans A new agreement is signed between two countries on conducting Japan-Sri…

15 Mar 2018
Govt will not ban social media – PM Uncategorized

Govt will not ban social media – PM

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (14) said that as the person who introduced Internet to Sri Lanka, neither he nor his Government has any…

15 Mar 2018
Thakur, Pandey fashion India's emphatic win Uncategorized

Thakur, Pandey fashion India's emphatic win

India 153 for 4 (Pandey 42*, Karthik 39*, Dananjaya 2-19) beat Sri Lanka 152 for 9 (Kusal Mendis 55, Thakur 4-27) by six wickets Scorecard and ball-by-ball…

13 Mar 2018
Lankan women in IT commit to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace Uncategorized

Lankan women in IT commit to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace

In a bid to bring gender diversity to the forefront, a group of high-profile professionals from some of Sri Lanka's leading technology-driven companies has…

13 Mar 2018
New Port City’s hidden truth spells danger for future generations Uncategorized

New Port City’s hidden truth spells danger for future generations

At the media briefing.

13 Mar 2018
No need to extend 'State of Emergency' after Thursday Uncategorized

No need to extend 'State of Emergency' after Thursday

The ten-day clamped down on last Tuesday (6) will not be extended from midnight Thursday (15) as the country has fully returned to normal after sporadic…

13 Mar 2018
DIGANA VILLAGE: SHREDS OF HUMANITY AMID VIOLENT TRAGEDY Uncategorized

DIGANA VILLAGE: SHREDS OF HUMANITY AMID VIOLENT TRAGEDY

When bonds of humanity and community shone through the terror and despair during the Kandy unrest DIGANA: As news spread about unrest in Teldeniya following…

12 Mar 2018
Eyes wide open on Chinese media invasion in Sri Lanka Uncategorized

Eyes wide open on Chinese media invasion in Sri Lanka

While Chinese investments started to pour in from the time Mahinda Rajapaksa became President and got close to China, concerns were raised that China was…

12 Mar 2018
Stop. Enough. No more Uncategorized

Stop. Enough. No more

Friday Forum is appalled by the continued violence that has been witnessed in many parts of the country, and especially in the Kandy district, in the last few…

12 Mar 2018
Sri Lanka forex reserves rise to US$7.9bn in Feb 2018 Uncategorized

Sri Lanka forex reserves rise to US$7.9bn in Feb 2018

Sri Lanka's forex reserves rose 244.35 million US dollars to 7,914 million US dollars in February 2018 from a month earlier, amid slower credit, though monthly…

12 Mar 2018
Govt. should hold reform course: IMF Uncategorized

Govt. should hold reform course: IMF

Projects SL to grow by 4.4%, inflation to hit 5% by 2018-end, food prices to stabilise Warns economy vulnerable to shocks, reform momentum essential Advocates…

12 Mar 2018
Sri Lanka shines at ITB despite Kandy crisis Uncategorized

Sri Lanka shines at ITB despite Kandy crisis

Destination Sri Lanka was a hot favourite at the world’s leading travel and trade show ITB, which opened in Berlin, Germany last week. The event is the largest…

12 Mar 2018
Multi-communal dialogue among Sri Lankan expats in Saudi to promote harmony Uncategorized

Multi-communal dialogue among Sri Lankan expats in Saudi to promote harmony

Riyadh: Following the recent violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Azmi Thassim, said that a multi-communal dialogue…

12 Mar 2018
Normalcy returns to Kandy Uncategorized

Normalcy returns to Kandy

Public life in Kandy which had been disrupted over the past couple of days due to ethnic tensions is now returning to normalcy. Businesses which had been shut…

11 Mar 2018
Am I the biggest rogue in this country? Uncategorized

Am I the biggest rogue in this country?

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in an interview with Ceylon Today said he takes pride in saying that he did everything possible to defeat terrorism…

11 Mar 2018
Rise above differences Uncategorized

Rise above differences

My dear Sri Lankan, It is with a sense of sadness that I am writing to you this week following the events in Kandy that has cost two lives already. While I…

11 Mar 2018
Canada deeply concerned by violence in SL Uncategorized

Canada deeply concerned by violence in SL

The Canadian government said it was deeply concerned by the recent inter-communal violence in Sri Lanka and urged all sides to engage in inclusive dialogue and…

09 Mar 2018
Sri Lankans Uncategorized

Sri Lankans

An organisation by the name Citizens Against Racism today staged a peaceful protest outside the Fort Railway station in Colombo against the incidents of…

09 Mar 2018
UN condemns incidents of communal violence in Sri Lanka Uncategorized

UN condemns incidents of communal violence in Sri Lanka

The United Nations in Sri Lanka today expressed concern about the recent incidents of communal violence in the country and condemned the acts in the strongest…

08 Mar 2018
A boom from the past Uncategorized

A boom from the past

Somasiri Devendra with a replica of a cannon Picture from the past: Cannon being unloaded at the Trincomalee harbour

07 Mar 2018
Govt. to disburse Rs.4 b to north as debt relief program Uncategorized

Govt. to disburse Rs.4 b to north as debt relief program

Finance Minister to inaugurate several initiatives in North this Sunday Allocates funds to empower producer cooperatives in North, extending support to…

07 Mar 2018