Sri Lanka car registrations up in March, Wagon-R leads

2018-04-18   |   Uncategorized

Sri Lanka's vehicle purchases rose 6.5 percent in March 2018 from a year earlier, with car registration up 107 percent to 5,968 units with Suzuki Wago...

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Southern Expressway grosses Rs. 105 mn during festive week

2018-04-18   |   Uncategorized

The Road Development Authority says that a revenue of Rs.105 million was generated from the Southern Expressway during the New Year Season from April ...

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Global recognition for SL’s dry zone Cascaded Tank-Village System

2018-04-18   |   Uncategorized

Included among 14 new sites in eight countries to be designated globally important agricultural heritage systems by Food and Agriculture Organiz...

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Abolishing Exec Presidency JVP to submit 20-A proposal JO says will support

2018-04-18   |   Uncategorized

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday (17) said that they would submit the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution, to abolish the Executi...

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SL joins C'wealth Clean Oceans Alliance to end plastic pollution

2018-04-17   |   Uncategorized

Countries from across the Commonwealth have yesterday pledged to eliminate avoidable single use plastic in an ambitious bid to clean up the world’s ...

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Aluthgamage remanded till today

2018-04-17   |   Uncategorized

Former Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage was yesterday (16) remanded until today (17) the Colombo Fort Magistrate, Lanka Jayaratne, due to h...

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Govt. plans to build 50,000 flats for low income families in Colombo

2018-04-12   |   Uncategorized

The Government plans to launch a project to build housing units in Colombo and suburbs for low income families, aiming to relocate families presently ...

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NCM victory and the end of Yahapalanaya ?

2018-04-12   |   Uncategorized

Although the no-confidence motion brought against Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesighe, has been decisively defeated largely because of those who broug...

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Absence of termination clauses, ill-effects highlighted

2018-04-12   |   Uncategorized

Professionals oppose SL-Singapore free trade pact The recently signed Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA) is a smokescreen for introduci...

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CABINET MEETS SANS SLFP, NEW CABINET BEFORE NEW YEAR

2018-04-11   |   Uncategorized

President Maithripala Sirisena had informed Cabinet of his intent to make a reshuffle before the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The President had made an...

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MOVING LANKA TO A CASHLESS SOCIETY

2018-04-09   |   Uncategorized

Sri Lanka will be moving towards a cashless transaction era enabling it to become a digital economy with Visa, the global leader in digital payments t...

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Anusha creates history

2018-04-09   |   Uncategorized

First Lankan woman in C’wealth Games Boxing semis Anusha Dilrukshi Kodituwakku became the first ever Sri Lankan woman boxer to enter a semifinal i...

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22 Global reinsurance giants join to provide reinsurance

2018-04-09   |   Uncategorized

Sri Lanka's only local reinsurance provider, The National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF) has successfully concluded the placement of its reinsurance prog...

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Authorities had not made any attempt to resolve Uni. non-academic strike: UTAJU

2018-04-09   |   Uncategorized

The Higher Education Ministry(HEM) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) had not made any substantial attempt to resolve month long non-academic ...

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The Future of Colombo is here

2018-04-06   |   Uncategorized

In 1962 when Lee Kuan Yew visited Ceylon, he was coming from a war torn land. He immediately fell in love with the human scale and the large trees he ...

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Who won?

2018-04-06   |   Uncategorized

Who won the battle of the no-confidence motion? There were a two winners, not one. One of them won tactically and the other strategically. There were ...

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Which UNP politician lead the mob that surrounded MTV/MBC HQ

2018-04-06   |   Uncategorized

The individual who lead the unruly behavior opposite the MTV/MBC head office was identified as Kithsiri Rajapaksa a UNP politician representing the C...

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PM thanks supportive MPs, admits shortcomings, vows to strengthen Govt. and UNP

2018-04-05   |   Uncategorized

    Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (4 April) expressed his gratitude to all the Parliamentarians who helped to defeat t...

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WATCH: 'Sri Lanka's Got Talent' contestant knocks himself out during karate routine

2018-04-05   |   Uncategorized

Sri Lanka's got talent, and probably also a serious concussion. On the first season of "Sri Lanka's Got Talent" -- the latest of many localized Got T...

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PM Ranil Wickremesinghe defeats the No-Confidence Motion

2018-04-05   |   Uncategorized

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has defeated the No-Confidence Motion brought up against him by the Joint Opposition. The Premier gained the supp...

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Royal victory for Ranil

2018-04-05   |   Uncategorized

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe yesterday emerged victorious after he managed to decisively defeat the much anticipated No-Confidence Motion with a...

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FinMin puts bunching debt figure at US $ 15bn between 2019 and 2022

2018-04-05   |   Uncategorized

The headroom to tackle Sri Lanka’s worsening public debt situation appears to be disappearing as the government estimates a whopping US $ 15 billion...

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Money talks for prisoners #967 and #968

2018-04-04   |   Uncategorized

They were accused of being involved in a major Treasury bond scam but putting them behind bars did not stop them from using the money they had to brib...

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National Audit Bill presented to P’ment

2018-04-04   |   Uncategorized

The long-awaited National Audit Bill was presented in Parliament yesterday by the Government as it seeks to widen the powers of the Auditor General an...

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NCM: TNA’s final decision this morning

2018-04-04   |   Uncategorized

SLMC likely to back Ranil. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has postponed till 10.00 am today in making a final decision on the no-confidence again...

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