Duties on small cars to be revised soon: PM
The government intended to revise the import duties imposed on small cars and hybrid vehicles in the near future, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ...
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Sri Lanka seek best combination and 'continuity' in ODIs
Sri Lanka are in a little bit of a muddle. So woeful have they been in ODIs lately, that it is difficult to say who exactly forms the core of their te...
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FOUR INTERDICTED AFTER TRAIN MISHAP
Four railway workers have been interdicted in connection with Monday evening’s train accident at Panaliya, near Polgahawela. Over 30 passengers wer...
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Prime Minister launches Rs. 50 million sports fund to help athletes
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe presenting the Rs. 50 million cheque to President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka Suresh Subramania...
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Fuel prices might drop after Friday: Ministry
The scheduled fuel price revision every two months would come to effect on Friday (10) where there might be a drop in fuel prices, the Finance Ministr...
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SAITM no more, staff should request salaries from President: Dr. Fernando
SAITM founder Dr. Neville Fernando said that as the SAITM Institute was abolished by President Maithripala Sirisena the staff should ask him for their...
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189 young entrepreneurs to get Enterprise Sri Lanka loans
The ‘Thurunudiriya’ loan scheme was launched by the Bank of Ceylon with the assistance of the Policy Development Office of the Prime Minister’s ...
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Decision on Opp. leader this week
Speaker to announce determination before Friday P’ment heats up over JO demand to make Dinesh new Opposition leader Dinesh slams UPFA Gen...
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Massive amounts of narcotics in custody to be destroyed
Law and Order Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara on Monday (Aug 6) said that a foolproof and efficient mechanism was urgently required to destroy massiv...
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Old American warship, relocation of camps, etc. to cost Rs. 27 bn more
The government yesterday submitted a supplementary estimate of more than 27 billion rupees for the approval of parliament to cover its expenses exceed...
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Last ten overs took the game away from Sri Lanka, reckons Samaraweera
Hosts Sri Lanka tried to find a different route in order to reverse their fortunes in the ongoing five-match ODI series against South Africa as they o...
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De La Rue injects further Rs 2B in FDI
De La Rue, the leading global identity and currency printing business first entered into a Joint Venture (JV) with the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) ...
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Hilton Colombo leagues ahead of others
2017 revenue crosses Rs. 3 b mark, gross profit up 23% Chairman optimistic recent measures by Govt. to put the national economy back on gro...
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Vijayakala blames South and politicians
Government Parliamentarian Vijayakala Maheswaran on Friday charged that the South was responsible for supplying drugs to the North and that the menace...
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SAITM students registration to KDU today
The registration of SAITM students at the KDU would start today amidst strict regulations that those who failed to pay the course-fee by Monday would ...
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Marapana leads Lankan delegation at 25th ASEAN Regional Forum
Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana led the Sri Lanka delegation at the 25th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting held on 4 August in Si...
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COPE to grill key govt officials on shady power purchases
Sri Lanka had incurred heavy losses amounting to billions of rupees due to irregularities in purchasing power from private producers and the high pric...
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Lankan govenment reworking MoU on airport deal with India
The Sri Lankan government is reworking on the draft of a memorandum of understanding to hand over the management of Mattala Rajapaksha International A...
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Import duty on vehicles below 1000cc increased
The import duty on vehicles which are less than 1000cc has been increased with effect from today (August 1), the Finance Ministry said. Accordingly t...
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Salaries of ministers likely to be increased?
Salaries of ministers, deputy ministers, state ministers and all parliamentarians are likely to be increased by approximately 215 per cent to be on pa...
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Emirates shares of UL were transferred to State entities without Cabinet nod: Official
Shared held by Emirates in SriLankan Airlines worth $ 53 million were transferred to People’s Bank, National Savings Bank (NSB), and the Employees P...
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'We were a bunch of school kids when it came to today's fielding' - Mathews
Angelo Mathews put it bluntly: "We were a bunch of school kids when it came to today's fielding." Niroshan Dickwella said basically the same thing, ...
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US embassy Colombo sidesteps query on Haley’s assessment of HRC as UN’s ‘greatest failure’
Bogollagama praises previous govt arranging Paisley visits The US embassy in Colombo sent The Island a statement that reiterated US commitment to ensu...
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