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Australian Government-funded Skills for Inclusive Growth Program (S4IG), managed by Palladium International Group entered into an MoU with Cinnamon Hotel Management Ltd (CHML) to achieve several strategic results in Colombo recently. S4IG is a programme by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in accordance with the terms of a subsidiary agreement signed on […]
- I took an online ninja class and now I'm ready for the apocalypse - CNET (Category: Technology)
- I took an online ninja class and now I'm ready for the apocalypse - CNET (Category: Technology)
- I took an online ninja class and now I'm ready for the apocalypse - CNET (Category: Technology)
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By Uditha Devapriya A Budget vote usually shows which parties support the government and which do not. Barring the Dullas Alahapperuma faction, the SLPP voted en masse for the second reading of the recent Budget. Except for MPs like Duminda Dissanayake, the SLFP voted against it. Despite some ambivalent, vague remarks from its MPs, the […]
- TNA to support forming of all-party government (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe and the politics of incompatibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez may change law to advance presidential election: Mano (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil can steer country out of crisis – EPDP (Category: Breaking News)
“Templeton Freedom Award has been won by Advocata Institute Sri Lanka. The CEO is our Dhana. It is with great pride I send this message to you to celebrate our dear friend Dhananath’s leadership victory of Advocata. Horekale and St Sebastian’s College man has really shown class.” That was Elmo Jayawardena’s email to me since […]
- Dhananath Fernando – determined to do much for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando (Category: Breaking News)
by Rajan Philips Ranil Wickremesinghe is the third President to sequester the finance portfolio instead of assigning it as an exclusive portfolio to a cabinet minister, but he is the first, perhaps after Ronnie de Mel, to prepare and author most or the entirety of the budget speech. He is also the first leader of […]
- Ranil likely to go for presidential poll first – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- Over 70% salary hike for CBSL employees: Gevindu demands explanation from FM (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB will support NCM against Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- PTA unconstitutional, says TNA (Category: Breaking News)
Five people belonging to a family in Killinochi district reached the Indian waters at Dhanuskodi first islet at around 5 a.m. on Thursday, said a news report by The Hindu.The Hindu report filed from Rameswaram said: With this, the total number of refugees camping at the Special Camp in Mandapam stands at 214. Apart from […]
- Orwellian Isle Ordeals (Category: Breaking News)
- Message from a Cell Death (Category: Breaking News)
- Post-Match Melancholia (Category: Breaking News)
- Empire’s Enchantment (Category: Breaking News)
Speech made November 22 I have consistently recorded my opposition to Minister of Finance being the President. From 2010 onwards in this House, whenever the President in his capacity as Minister of Finance has presented a budget I have recorded that protest and I wish to record that today as well. When a person who […]
- Reconstitution of COPE, COPA in limbo (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL: If 21A fails, that will adversely affect future law reform initiatives (Category: Breaking News)
- Interim Budget passed (Category: Breaking News)
- GL: Govt. not concerned about corruption despite Geneva warning (Category: Breaking News)
To address the looming shortage of grains for the animal feed industry and maize based food items due to the ongoing socio-economic crisis in Sri Lanka, as a part of the response efforts through the United Nations (UN) joint Humanitarian Needs and Priorities (HNP) Plan, the Royal Thai Embassy in Colombo has supported the procurement […]
- Royal Thai Embassy and UN work together to support vulnerable Sri Lankan farmers during Maha sea... (Category: Breaking News)
- Food Deal (Category: Business)
- US supports Sri Lankan govt in providing Thriposha to mothers and children through WFP (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan mahout honoured by Thai royals (Category: Breaking News)
By Ifham Nizam Out of the estimated 50,000 acres in the Balangoda Soragune Reserve Forest 6,245 have been parceled out to influential businessmen and politicians, claiming them to be under Devalagam Lands, leading environmentalists alleged.Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) Executive Director, Dilena Pathragoda told The Sunday Island that such lands belonging to both Ratnapura and Badulla dist...
- JVP: Mahaweli land given away to cronies of govt. (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt to acquire underutilized lands owned by large-scale plantations (Category: Breaking News)
- Uncultivated paddy lands to be acquired by govt for 5 years (Category: Breaking News)
- CID commences operations against Janaka Bandara Tennakoon (Category: Breaking News)
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Manila organized a virtual meeting between the Ministry of Labor and Foreign Employment and the Department of Migrant Workers as a preliminary discussion on Sri Lanka’s interest to conduct a comprehensive study on the Philippines’ model of migrant worker recruitment and management, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.The interactive discussion […]
- Sri Lanka to raise duty-free allowance for migrant workers to encourage remittance (Category: Breaking News)
- SLBFE facilitates repatriation of 54 Sri Lankan workers stranded in Kuwait (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankans to receive employment in Canada (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister Thondaman raises concerns about Lankan migrant workers with ILO Director General (Category: Breaking News)
by Norman Palihawadane If those responsible for the Easter Sunday terror attacks do not accept their guilt with contrite hearts, then nature will follow suit, says President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Sri Lanka and the Bishop of Kurunegala Catholic Diocese, Rt Rev Dr Harold Anthony Perera. While delivering his homily at the Holy […]
- Lanka to seek UK assistance to probe Easter Sunday attacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Low compensation paid for Easter attack victims? (Category: Breaking News)
- Low compensation paid for Easter attack victims? (Category: Breaking News)
- Low compensation paid for Easter attack victims? (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT —Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will engage constructively in sincere attempts at resolving the ethnic issue, legislator M A Sumanthiran said responding to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s overtures to the opposition, while also suggesting that the TNA was open to a federal solution. “We will engage constructively in every sincere attempt as we have always done but […]
- PTA unconstitutional, says TNA (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez, TNA discuss reconciliation, political prisoners, lands (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA: Budget needs to be consistent with IMF economic reform program and macroeconomic framework (Category: Breaking News)
- FSP raises alarm over Indian investments in strategic locations (Category: Breaking News)
Women MPs will attend parliament on Dec. 1 in line with slogan ‘Let’s unite to end gender based violence’ of the UN-led global campaign – 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus (WPC) Chairperson, Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle said that a wristband with the message “Let’s Unite to end Gender Based Violence” will […]
- Parliament turns orange against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) (Category: Breaking News)
- UNFPA Regional Director here (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives: Bridge gender gaps to accelerate progress, say UN experts (Category: Breaking News)
- UN told about progress made by Sri Lanka for the advancement of women (Category: Breaking News)
by Rex Clementine There’s a lot of respect for Virat Kohli’s batsmanship but still, lot of people don’t like his attitude. But if you ask the Indian press about his work ethic and diet routines, you will realize that what makes him the player he is, the discipline that he has brought into his lifestyle. […]
- Let’s make most of local coaches (Category: Breaking News)
- My best knock for Sri Lanka – Asalanka (Category: Breaking News)
- MJ set to get extension despite World Cup catastrophe (Category: Breaking News)
- Muralitharan slams SLC for calling back players from IPL (Category: Breaking News)
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Street Burger -home of Sri Lanka’s original gourmet burger-, launched its inaugural annual “ForHer” initiative, in collaboration with the Indira Cancer Trust and Suwara Arana -the first paediatric palliative care centre in Sri Lanka. The campaign kicked off on the 1st of October, and for the entire month […]
- Sri Lanka to create awareness on breast cancer next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Special offer to ladies from Ceylinco Healthcare Centre (Category: Business)
- Pink has shades of grey (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Every four days one Sri Lankan woman dies of breast or cervical cancer - Ministry of Health (Category: Breaking News)
Indi’s bridal designs design are renowned for its distinctive use of colours, quality of fabrics, intricate embroideries and a glorious rich Sri Lanka culture.Indi is included in the list of best Sri Lankan bridal designers and she is one designer who is acknowledged on the international pedestal for her different and unique designs of bridal […]
- Vogues Bridal Haven re-defines the Sri Lankan wedding dream (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Love is not canceled': Iowa bridal industry prepares for major comeback (Category: USA, Iowa)
- 'Love is not canceled': Iowa bridal industry prepares for major comeback (Category: USA, Iowa)
- 'Love is not canceled': Iowa bridal industry prepares for major comeback (Category: USA, Iowa)
A court in the Netherlands orders the country to compensate families of the 20 victims killed in the air strike. (Al Jazeera) A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a 2007 bombing of a residential compound in Afghanistan by Dutch forces was unlawful, and it ordered the country to pay compensation to the victims’ […]
- Death toll rises to 70 in bombing at mosque in Pakistani security compound (Category: Breaking News)
- University professor convicted for Paris synagogue bombing after 43 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Pardon for terrorists unpardonable (Category: Breaking News)
- Sivalingam Aruran acquitted from case over Gotabaya assassination attempt (Category: Breaking News)
by Chanka Jayasinghe Sri Lanka’s Tea Board, fearing labor shortages, has initiated mechanized tea harvesting with no quality or production loss expected, E.A.J.K. Edirisinghe, Commissioner of the Tea Board said He said the Tea Research Institute (TRI) has already carried out research collaborating with Japan, and identified that efficiency can be improved, while preserving the […]
- Lanka’s crisis powers 22% spike in Indian tea exports (Category: Breaking News)
- Paddy cultivators complain of exploitation by traders (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea Board has spent Rs 4.6 billion on advertising campaign, but no results (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabinet approval to raise daily wage of estate sector workers (Category: Breaking News)
Matara District Samagi Jana Balavegaya MP Buddhika Pathirana told Parliament on Friday that a group of racketeers have been successful in getting round the Excise Department introduced ‘foolproof’ stickers by printing counterfiets. These are self-adhesive paper stickers affixed on the stoppers of liquor bottles, cans and kegs. Pathirana, speaking during the second reading debate of […]
- Countrywide raids in search of counterfeit stickers on bottles of liquor (Category: Breaking News)
- Security stickers on bottles of liquor: The corrupt make a killing – Buddhika (Category: Breaking News)
- Excise tax on alcohol spirits increased (Category: Breaking News)
- Police hunt on for racketeers luring Lankan refugees (Category: Breaking News)
Looking for something out of the extraordinary to do on a weekend? Then look no further than Cloud Red at Cinnamon Red Colombo said a press release The release said with views of the changing landscape of the city of Colombo in the background, Cloud Red invites guests to a variety of curated experiences. The […]
- hSenid Mobile Hosts Webinar on Unifying Multi-Cloud Experience with Managed Services with Red Hat (Category: Breaking News)
- hSenid Mobile Hosts Webinar on Unifying Multi-Cloud Experience with Managed Services with Red Hat (Category: Breaking News)
- hSenid Mobile Hosts Webinar on Unifying Multi-Cloud Experience with Managed Services with Red Hat (Category: Breaking News)
- hSenid Mobile Hosts Webinar on Unifying Multi-Cloud Experience with Managed Services with Red Hat (Category: Breaking News)
The new Ambassador of Oman to Sri Lanka H.E Ahmed Ali Saeed Al Rashdi called on the Speaker Hon. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena recently (25) in Parliament.
Secretary-General of Parliament Mr. Dhammika Dasanayake said that four Secretaries to Ministries, a Chairman to an institution and an Ambassador were granted approved by the Committee on High Posts recently (22).
The Committee decides that further discussions should be held to grant approval for orders under the Casino Business (Regulation) Act No. 17 of 2010
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