“Vehicle and motorcycle owners would have the capacity of bearing taxes”
– 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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Commercial High Court issues interim order against Damro
The Commercial High Court of Colombo on 4 July issued an Interim Order against the Defendant Damro. High Court Judge Rathnapriya Gurusinghe issued th...
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Fuel prices increased from midnight Thursday
The prices of fuel would be increased with effect from midnight, the Finance Ministry Sources said. Accordingly, the prices of fuel per litre will be...
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PM denies some of NYT allegations
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, yesterday, in Parliament repudiated the recent claims made by The New York Times that the incumbent government ha...
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Travel ban imposed on eight PTL directors
Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today restricted eight directors of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd from travelling abroad without the permission of the Cour...
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Maristella clocks historic world leading time
Bogoda tops Asian region In this file picture by Dimuthu Premaratne, Parami Wasanthi Maristella leads the 2,000 metres steeplechase at the recently he...
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Yen 100 b loan for Central Highway stage III
Cabinet this week gave approval to seek a Japanese loan of 100 billion yen to construct the third section of the Central High Way from Pothuhera to Ga...
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