MAIN PARTIES TO VOTE AGAINST DELIMITATION REPORT
Report needs to be passed with a two thirds majority in House: UNP for holding PC elections under old electoral system The United National Front...
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Ports Ministry to present Cabinet paper on ECT development
Govt. grants approval to Ports Authority to run the ECT Ports Authority to procure equipment for the development of the Terminal Equipm...
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No decentralized budget for MPs for 8 months: JO
The Government had failed to release the decentralized budget funds to MPs for the past eight months, the Joint Opposition (JO) said today. JO MP Mah...
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Lanka’s ICT exports surpasses US$ 1bn
Sri Lanka’s Digital Literacy has reached 39% and ICT exports have surpassed USS 1 billion making ICT the 5th largest foreign exchange revenue earner...
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Human Rights Commission Chair criticises media for sensationalising crime
Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (HRC) Chairperson Deepika Udagama was critical of the media for its lack of social responsibility for sensationalisi...
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Tharanga century sets up massive win for Colombo
Veteran opening batsman Upul Tharanga smashed a sensational century as Colombo defeated Galle by 90 runs in the first game of the SLC T20 at R. Premad...
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Hayleys 1Q19 revenue tops Rs. 50 billion
Hayleys PLC, generated strong top-line performance across all of its key business verticals resulting in a 74% Year-on-Year (YoY) increase in revenue ...
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Gota under probe by SriLankan commission
Presidential Commission of Inquiry sends notice to former Defence Secy. Others to include Sajin Vaas, Nishantha Wickremasinghe and Kapila Chan...
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UNP Back-benchers unhappy with President
United National Party (UNP) backbencher, MP Chaminda Wijesiri, yesterday (21), said that the UNP is distressed over President Maithripala Sirisena not...
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President rejects proposal to limit three-wheeler driver age
In a progressive move, President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday rejected the controversial Cabinet paper imposing an age limit on drivers of passenger...
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Welikada Prison protest leaves 11 injured
A tense situation at the Welikada Prison left three inmates and eight officials injured. According to prison sources, female inmates of the priso...
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Regulatory Commission for three-wheelers to be appointed
Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday said that a separate agency will be appointed to regulate the Three wheeler service in th...
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Sri Lanka coconut prices plunge 30-pct at auction; export ban may be lifted
Sri Lanka's fresh coconuts dropped to an average 30 percent to 30,793 rupees for 1,000 nuts at the latest auction in August 2018 from a month earlier,...
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Government generated 700 ,000 income sources by end 2017 - PM
By the end of 2017, the government has generated 700,000 income sources including 430,000 direct employments, self-employments and foreign workers...
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JO seats to come under threat if they go independent- Manohara de Silva
In order to obtain the Opposition Leader’s post in Parliament, the Joint Opposition (JO) is planning to leave the United People’s Freedom Allian...
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People's Bank GM and ex-SDGM paid Rs. 75mil as arrears salary increment
The People’s Bank has paid a total of around Rs 75 million as arrears of the annual salary increments to its incumbent General Manager, N. Vasanth...
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Rs 32B allocated to Gamperaliya for 2018
The Government has allocated a sum of Rs 32 billion till the end of the year for the Gamperaliya programme, with Rs 200 million set aside per electora...
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Drivers who ignore level crossing signals to be fined
Drivers who ignore railway crossing signals would be soon fined Rs. 25,000, Minister of Transport, Nimal Siripala de Silva said on Sunday at Hikkaduwa...
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Gnanasara Thera spoke up for the country: Kotte Maha Sangha Sabha
In a letter to President Maitripala Sirisena with regard to the imprisonment of Bodu Bala Sena general secretary Ven. Galagodaathte Gnanasara Thera, t...
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FM evades RTI query on UK wartime dispatches from Colombo
Foreign Ministry has refrained from responding to a query whether it would brief the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) as regards wartime B...
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SriLankan Airline decisions on shares of SriLankan Catering defy any sense
SriLankan Airlines officials had not done an evaluation of share value before it bought back 40 mn of SriLankan Catering shares, at Rs. 100 reach, at ...
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Former Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee dead
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had been admitted to the AIIMS hospital in New Delhi for the past few weeks, died on Thursday. He was ...
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SLTB in the black for first time
The Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) which was incurring heavy losses for many years, had earned a profit of Rs. 1,618 million last year, for the ...
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