Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) yesterday justified the new deal for the crucial East Container Terminal (ECT) was the best fit given the State-owned ..
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:13 Views - 162
As long as he is the Health Minister, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne stated yesterday that he will not allow the import of foreign cigarette imports into the c
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Sri Lanka will make a fresh push to woo Chinese tourists post-Easter Sunday terror attacks by putting up a major promotional initiative at the biggest
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:11 Views - 133
Members of the Parliament Select Committee (PSC) looking into the Easter Day attacks will meet with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today to discuss how to ov
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:03 Views - 171
LSEG Technology, part of London Stock Exchange Group, has announced that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has successfully gone live with Equity
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:12 Views - 344
Ceylon Electricity Board is set to retire power plants incurring high production costs within the next one and half years, Power and Renewable Energy
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:11 Views - 176
Sri Lanka Tourism will launch the much-awaited two-month global promotional campaign next month with an investment of Rs. 500 million, to position Sri
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:11 Views - 121
Sri Lanka’s first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ was successfully launched into orbit on Monday from the International Space Station (ISS) along with two
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:00 Views - 101
Following the unprecedented Easter Sunday attacks on hotels, security of the hotels and its patrons are of paramount importance and hoteliers are work
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:07 Views - 345
At a time when the rupee was being strengthened after a long period of economic downturn and the country was ranked as the number one tourist destinat
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:07 Views - 135
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday criticised a possible move by President Maithripala Sirisena to hold a referendum seeking public views on
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:04 Views - 93
AFP: Media activists on Monday accused Sri Lankan police of using a UN convention on hate speech to crack down on media freedom and the country’s Mu
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By S.S. Selvanayagam Supreme Court
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In commemoration of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) 2019, Biodiversity Sri Lanka, together with its member companies from the agr
Monday, 17 June 2019 01:20 Views - 251
UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on UNP Chairman MP Kabir Hashim to rejoin the Cabinet as soon as possible and take his place in th
Monday, 17 June 2019 01:19 Views - 188
President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday called on Asian countries to unite in the battle against terrorism while protecting and preserving the inte
Monday, 17 June 2019 01:19 Views - 207
A visiting Maldivian state delegation said the purpose of their visit was to show the international community that Sri Lanka is a tourist friendly, pe
Monday, 17 June 2019 01:15 Views - 244
The proposal made by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera in his 2019 Budget to remove the pensioners’ salary anomalies will be implemented effectiv
Monday, 17 June 2019 01:14 Views - 188
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) says its Red Notice has helped the arrest of Sri Lanka bombing suspect Mohammed Milhan and f
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
“It is necessary, therefore, for the Government to pay serious attention to the doings of Sri Lanka Cricket [board] and take immediate action to lif
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
From the time of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike’s election victory in 1956, one and only one issue had dominated political party campaigns in this country; a
Monday, 17 June 2019
Going after social proof
Swiss writer and novelist, Rolf Dobelli, in one of the essays in his 2013 book ‘The Art of Thinking Clearly’, has given a
Monday, 17 June 2019
We witnessed a serene Poson Poya, in a far more improved security setting in Sri Lanka. Whilst the Sri Lankan life slowly returning to normal, politic
Monday, 17 June 2019
The expression ‘The Emperor without clothes’ derives from the Hans Anderson tale that is based on Sufi wisdom.
The Emperor in Anderson’s story
