Study projects smoking up 16% in 2018, calls for more effective policy
Sri Lanka’s smuggled cigarette market is projected to grow 21% this year, with around 520 million sticks reaching consumers, as overall cigarette co...
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President seeks AG’s help to break deadlock between PUCSL and CEB
PUCSL still opposed to CEB’s original plan submitted in 2017 CEB insistent on getting approval for original plan CEB Engineers’ Union call...
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Sports Minister directs SLC to take prompt action on ‘pitch fixing’
Sports Minister Faiszer Mustapha has in a letter addressed to the secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket has directed the national body for the sport to promp...
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Ex-President says govt harasses Rajapaksas out of fear
KANDY – Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said in Kandy that the government is scared of the Rajapaksas and they were harassed due to that fear...
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722 two new houses in Colombo vested with low income families by the President.
Seven hundred and twenty two (722) newly built houses of Madampitiya, Henemulla, “Methsanda Sevana“ housing scheme were vested with low income fam...
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Government to remain neutral on commemoration activities in North for 18 May
The Government yesterday (16 May) said that it would remain impartial with regard to the planned commemoration activities by the Northern Provincial C...
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Presidential-aspirant Gota gets going on Vision 2030
Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressing the Viyathmaga Forum at Shangri La Hotel yesterday Over 2,000 professionals and business lea...
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Won’t retire in 2020: President
President Maithripala Sirisena today declared that he would not retire from politics in 2020 as he had to complete his mission to serve the people and...
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Minister vows action after Yala bear saga
While stating that there is a threat to wildlife in the Yala National Park due to the action of some people, Wildlife Minister Ravindra Samaraweera ye...
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Social media ban: Undue pressure from diplomats: President
When the Sri Lankan Government took action to impose the curfew, banning the social media and declaring the State of Emergency to control the Sinhala-...
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Only President can win 2020: Duminda
The General Secretary of the SLFP Duminda Dissanayake yesterday said that he did not like to respond to the remarks made by SLFP Parliamentarian Dilan...
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President arrives in London to participate in CHOGM
President Maithripala Sirisena reached London this morning (April 16) to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2018. He was rece...
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Four temp. Ministers appointed in place of six SLFPers
President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed four acting ministers to temporarily handle the Ministerial portfolios which were vacated by six Sri Lank...
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President in dilemma: UNP all out to oust SLFP ministers
President Maithripala Sirisena now has another serious problem to contend with as the UNP is all out to oust the SLFP ministers who voted for the ...
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Ranil urges UNP to prepare for elections
Leader of the UNP and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, having defeated the No Confidence Motion (NCM) brought against him by the Sri Lanka Poduj...
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Ranil urged to quit unity govt, bring in SF as law and order minister
An overtly anti-Joint Opposition civil society grouping that campaigned for 2015 change of government yesterday said that the National Unity Governm...
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January 2015,Presidential election : BJP IT expert advised Rajapaksas
After three years of claiming that India helped the common opposition to victory in January 2015, a top Rajapaksa administration official openly admit...
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Vajira reads the riot act to President,
"says no-faith motion is illegal; Sirisena has no power to remove PM" The UNP yesterday warned President Maithripala Sirisena and the SLFP that the no...
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President brings CB under Finance Ministry purview
In a major and contentious move, the President Maithripala Sirisena, issuing an Extraordinary Gazette notification last evening, removed the Central B...
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JO alleges MPs offered Rs. 100 mn each to vote against no-faith motion
Members of parliament have been offered as much as Rs. 100 mn each to oppose the no-confidence motion (NCM) moved against Prime Minister and UNP leade...
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Government to create three BOI zones
The government will speed up creating three new Board of Investment (BOI) zones at Bingiriya, Mawathagama, Milleniya and Charlimount (Matara). A budg...
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