New traffic fines from Sunday, 10 more offences included

2018-07-12   |   Uncategorized

The number traffic offences that deserve fines has been increased from July 15 which includes ten new offences, the Director of Traffic Administration...

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Investments under FTA: Singaporean investors keen to enter services and manufacturing sectors

2018-07-12   |   Crime

Subsequent to the signing of the Singapore-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) there is already interest among Singaporean investors to invest in ser...

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ETI Finance to be purchased at US $ 75 million

2018-07-12   |   Business

Singapore-registered Blue Summit Capital Management Ltd and Sri Lanka’s Ben Holdings Ltd. have made a joint investment to purchase the crisis-hit fi...

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Thai cave rescue: All 12 boys and coach rescued

2018-07-11   |   Sports

All 12 boys and their football coach who were stranded in the flooded Chiang Rai cave system in Thailand have been rescued after dramatic search opera...

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65-pct of Sri Lanka state workers do not have A-Levels

2018-07-11   |   Uncategorized

Less than seven percent of Sri Lanka's 1.1 million public sector workforce have university degrees in commerce, management or science related areas, w...

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USD 585 mn for SL parties from US: JO demands probe

2018-07-11   |   Uncategorized

Presidential election 2015: Anuradhapura District UPFA MP Shehan Semasinghe says a comprehensive inquiry is needed to ascertain US funding made availa...

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Kalkudah Police officer arrested for accepting bribe of Rs 300,000

2018-07-11   |   Crime

Officer in Charge of the Kalkudah Police Administrative Unit has been arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 300,000, stated the Bribery Commission. ...

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Samsung opens world’s largest phone factory in India

2018-07-10   |   Entertainment

Reuters – South Korean President, Moon Jae-in and Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, jointly inaugurated the world’s largest mobile factory, in...

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“Vehicle and motorcycle owners would have the capacity of bearing taxes”

2018-07-10   |   Uncategorized

– Inland Revenue Dept.- Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Department Ivan Dissanayake has stated that vehicle and motorcycle owners would have the...

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Public and semi government sector employees exceeds 1.1 million

2018-07-10   |   Politics

Dr. Amara Satharasinghe Department of Census and Statistics The importance of public sector is an indisputable social and economic reality throughout ...

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Former UL board members appointed in violation of regulations: Official

2018-07-10   |   Technology

Unqualified appointments were made to the former Board of Directors of SriLankan Airlines, a top official from the national carrier told the President...

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Rs. 600 million from Rotary to Sri Lanka focus on 2018/19

2018-07-10   |   Uncategorized

There has been a donor funding of $ 3.9 million dollars or Rs. 600 million, given by Rotary Foundation to Sri Lanka in the last five years, said the n...

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Can the SLFP be thrown out?

2018-07-10   |   Uncategorized

Sampanthan - Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan asked in Parliament as to how the new political party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SL...

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Parliamentarians reaction to PM’s visit to Singapore

2018-07-09   |   Politics

Political representatives say that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is currently in Singapore, should be able to return with the fugitive form...

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Suspects in Anuradhapura murder arrested, three swords and a motorcar found

2018-07-09   |   Crime

Another two suspects have been arrested in Thammannakulama, Anuradhapura over the murder of a father of three. They have killed him using sharp obje...

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Vijayakala under fire for LTTE remarks; hailed as hero in Jaffna

2018-07-09   |   Technology

After widespread condemnation from all quarters in the south following her controversial statement about the LTTE, former State Minister of Children...

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‘Fiscal position under stress from doubled car and gold imports this year’

2018-07-09   |   Business

Gold and car imports have doubled this year compared to last year, creating tremendous pressure on the fiscal position and on the whole economy, Centr...

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Sri Lanka’s govt gets USD 50Mn loan from OPEC fund for international development

2018-07-09   |   Development

Sri Lanka’s government signed a loan agreement for obtaining financial assistance of US 50 million dollars from OPEC fund for International Developm...

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Earnings of listed corporates gain in March quarter

2018-07-09   |   Business

Values up 28.5% to Rs. 98 b and by 15.4% to Rs. 87.5 b excluding one-off profits for two corporates Food, Beverage and Tobacco, Bank and Capit...

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Blood bank to malfunction today as Doctors demand to remove its Director

2018-07-09   |   Health

A dispute between the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) Director and its medical officers has lead to a malfunction of the blood bank for the ...

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Ramayana tourism to kick off in Nov, train will go to places linked with the Hindu epic

2018-07-09   |   Weather

The Ayodhya to Colombo via Rameshwaram service by the Indian Railways will start from November 14 from Delhi and take 16 days to cover the circuit. Th...

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Mendis issues 2,487 cheques for Rs. 1.134 mn in eight months

2018-07-09   |   Uncategorized

A team of experts who probed the accounts of WM Mendis Company, owned by the Perpetual Treasuries Pvt. Ltd, has found that it has issued 2,487 cheques...

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Heroin worth Rs.1,248 mn seized

2018-07-09   |   Uncategorized

PNB detects over 103 kilos One of the largest drug busts ever Two suspects arrested, jeep, equipment seized The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB...

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Chandimal named captain pending ICC hearing

2018-07-06   |   Technology

Sri Lanka named Dinesh Chandimal as captain for the upcoming two-Test series against South Africa despite the fact that he has a charge sheet hovering...

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Four Lankan athletes qualify for Youth Olympics

2018-07-06   |   Sports

Four Sri Lankan athletes qualified for the Youth Olympic after producing their best performance at the Asian Youth Olympic Qualification trials conclu...

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