2021-03-04 19:30:00
Silk Cooperation, a fully-fledged Supply Chain Management leader for the Organic Agriculture, Food and Beverage, and Nutraceuticals’ sectors, emerged victorious at the recent NCE Export Awards 2020; the principle company E-Silk Route Ventures Ltd won the Gold Award in the ‘Organic Products Sector’. E-Silk Route Ventures specializes in exporting organic products inclusive of a wide variety of spices, herbs, coconut products and related value added..
2021-01-08 20:28:00
Sri Lanka Ambassador-designate to Japan Sanjiv Gunasekara assumed duties on 6 January 2021, in Tokyo. He is the seventeenth Sri Lanka Ambassador to Japan during last 69 years of bilateral relations of the two countries. The event of the assumption of duties of the Ambassador-designate included the invoking of the blessings of Buddhists, Hindu, Islamic and Christian...
2021-01-08 20:16:00
The Airline Pilots Guild of Sri Lanka (ALPGSL) issued a press release earlier today, blaming the senior management of the national carrier for issuing a shabbily worded press release and going on to publicly tarnish the reputation of its dedicated pilots...
2021-01-08 19:35:00
The Ministry of Health, (MOH) of Sri Lanka together with the Government of the Republic of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and UNOPS held a ceremony to provide funding for critical medical equipment and supplies including PPE, Medical Gas worth $260,000 to the Korea Sri Lanka Friendship..
2021-01-08 19:13:00
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena held discussions concerning the revival of foreign employment cooperation between Sri Lanka and the Republic of Korea with the Korean Ambassador in Sri Lanka Woonjin Jeong on 4 January 2021, at the Foreign Ministry...
2021-01-08 18:38:00
Boeing Co will pay over $2.5bn to resolve the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into two deadly 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people, the DOJ said, but will not be forced to plead guilty to criminal charges...
2021-01-08 18:00:00
Australia on Friday said it would require all international travellers to test negative for COVID-19 before getting on the plane, as the city of Brisbane prepared for a three-day lockdown after confirming a patient with the highly infectious variant of the virus first discovered in the United Kingdom...
2021-01-08 17:28:00
ETI directors Jeevaka Edirisinghe, Nalaka Edirisinghe, Deepa Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisinghe have been re-arrested by the CID today (08), police spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said...
2021-01-08 16:30:00
Dick Pound, the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), remains uncertain whether the Tokyo 2020 Games will go ahead...
2021-01-08 15:46:00
The Minister of Sports Namal Rajapaksa states that from now on the quarantine of Sri Lankans returning from foreign countries will be done completely free of charge. He said this speaking in Parliament today (08)...
2021-01-08 14:55:00
MP Rishad Bathiudeen said that the present government is not a government that can be dealt with in any way and he cannot even think about the bad deeds done to the society...
2021-01-08 13:55:00
Today marks the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge, the former editor of the Sunday Leader and a veteran journalist...
2021-01-08 13:20:00
Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Minister of State for Finance and Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Reforms, says that every loan and every sovereign bond can be repaid without any problems...
2020-10-29 21:19:00
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the party and has had the whip removed...
2020-10-29 20:22:00
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa says that the failure of the testing machines to identify people infected with the covid 19 virus is a serious problem. The Leader of the Opposition points out that the government should provide immediate solutions for this...
2020-10-29 20:11:00
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is on an official visit to Sri Lanka, has not met with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa...
2020-10-29 19:26:00
People who identify themselves as associates of covid 19 infected are now being referred for self-quarantine in their own homes instead of being sent to quarantine centers...
2020-10-29 19:21:00
Another 414 cases of corona virus have been reported so far today (29), Army Commander Shavendra Silva said...
2020-10-11 15:45:00
The UK has reached a ’’tipping point’’ in its coronavirus epidemic similar to that last seen in March, one of the country’s top scientists has warned...
2020-10-11 15:04:00
Mars is at its biggest and brightest right now as the Red Planet lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun...
2020-10-11 14:28:00
The Attorney General has summoned the DIG in charge of the CID and the Chief Investigating Officer...
2020-10-11 14:01:00
The Foreign Ministry has issued a media release on the topic ’Sri Lanka and China discuss economic revival and COVID-19 assistance’’ it is as follows...
2020-10-11 13:10:00
Former Police Media Spokesperson SSP Jaliya Senaratne has been transferred to Kankesanthurai Division...
2020-09-29 11:40:00
We observe, with disappointment, today’s rating downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service and the recent release of an erroneous analysis by an international investment bank expressing concerns about Sri Lanka’s economic and financial strength and external debt service capacity. This downgrade and the report fail to do justice to the ground reality of the ongoing rapid economic recovery backed by vastly improved business confidence arising from the..
2020-07-10 11:51:00
The Ministry of Defense has commenced the process of reinstating officers who have been ordered to leave the Sri Lanka Police Department. The process is being carried out as per a Cabinet decision taken by the government and appeals have already been initiated...
2020-07-10 10:55:00
Voting is under way in Singapore’s general election, under the cloud of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout...
2020-07-10 10:48:00
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) says that at least 5,000 PCR tests per day should be conducted at random in the community as there is a high risk of a second wave of corona with a large number of covid patients being reported from the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center...
2020-07-10 09:59:00
Another 196 infected people have been found in the Kandakadu cluster..
2020-07-10 09:14:00
Former Member of Parliament Dilan Perera says that President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has managed to control the corona virus, which is a headache that even the most powerful leaders in the world could not control...
2020-07-10 08:29:00
The government had to provide a 25% concession for electricity bills in March-April due to pressure exerted by the Samagi Jana Balawega. Says Mr. Marikkar. However, Mr. Marikkar said at a media briefing yesterday that the government that gives relief to the electricity bill has forgotten the people’s bills...
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