Sri Lanka’s worst post-war economic crisis represents a major blow to the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts that were already hobbled by the COVID pandemic. However, the situation is also providing impetus to the work of academics that are using their knowledge to tackle the immediate fallout from […]

Faithful urged to refrain from making Christmas a ‘mere occasion for external celebrations’ Catholic bishops have urged devotees to provide medicines and dry rations for the needy at a time when Sri Lankan is mired in crises.The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL), in a statement released on Oct. 28, urged people to be […]

Lankan High Commissioner in India, Milinda Moragoda, last week became one of the early customers of Maruti Suzuki’s newest offering, the Grand Vitara. R. C. Bhargava, Chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, handed over the Intelligent Electric Hybrid variant of the Grand Vitarato the High Commissioner at the High Commission of Sri Lanka, New Delhi. The High Commission said in a media statement: ̶...

Diabetes is a major killer of humans. It is very dangerous. It comes third or fourth after the chief killers namely, heart attacks and strokes. Anyone can develop diabetes by simply eating the wrong foods- by following the sweet path of ‘ignorance is bliss.’ But it makes your life very unpleasant and shortens it greatly. […]

By Ifham Nizam The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) expects to collect revenue between Rs 32 and 35 billion in October, up from a monthly Rs. 20 billion earlier.Though a 75 per cent tariff increase was enforced in August, CEB was able to collect only Rs. 29.5 b in September. This is due to variation in […]

Fuel price hike, forex-shortage led long fuel queues help boost LIOC's profits

"The government should step in and set a rate, but instead they are making obnoxious statements."

"For a week, we need 30 liters if we run an average of 100 kilometres a day."

The first phase will commence in the Western province, the PMD said.

By Meera Sirinivasan As Sri Lankans continue braving their worst economic crisis since Independence, urban poverty on the island has tripled in the last year, from 5% to 15 %, according to a recent World Bank report.Sri Lanka is experiencing “its highest poverty rate since 2009 [when the civil war ended], and an erosion of […]

By SHIHAR ANEEZ Leaving his family and relatives was the hardest decision for Suren. But he had no other option.He never wanted to go abroad for work. An accountant by profession, Suren even had the opportunity to be promoted for a higher post at the private firm he was working at in Colombo. But he was […]

by Rajan Philips The Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Bill had a quiet passage in parliament with a majority of 60 votes, 77 for and 17 against. What is disquieting is that only 94 of the 224 MPs (excluding the Speaker) were in parliament for the vote on a Bill on petroleum products, the mismanagement […]

The demand to develop and put into practice new and innovative sustainable lifestyle methods that contribute towards a greener economy continues to surge, now more than ever as Sri Lanka sees itself in the wake of an economic crisis. The recent fuel hikes seen the world over along with the rise in cost of living […]

By A.A. Premasiri Around 75 percent of small and medium scale rice mills had been closed down, W.H. Gamini, Tissamaharama Rice Producers Association Chairman, told The Island on Friday. “Now, we have to pay an additional 2.5 percent social security tax. We have decided to stop buying paddy until we are exempted from this tax,” […]

Global Tamil Forum skirts the issue  By Shamindra Ferdinando The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wouldn’t get involved in the ongoing controversy over the UK decision to move Sri Lankans, seeking to settle in the UK, to what the government called ‘a safe third country,’ unless they returned to Sri Lanka ‘voluntarily’. About 120 Sri Lankans […]

We will give our storage facilities and pipelines for a fee.

 By Saman Indrajith The National Council sub-committee on identifying short and medium-term programmes, related to economic stabilization recently, discussed the possibility of making available for the use of trishaws and motorcycles 87 Octane fuel produced at the Kolonnawa refinery. The committee said that the electricity tariff must remain stable, and in line with other countries […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita The government must reveal the losses incurred by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) since 2008 due to the prevention of cost-reflective pricing, and tell the people how it planed to recover the losses, former Minister of Energy, and leader of Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), Udaya Gamnapila, said.Gammanpila said that CPC trade unions […]

The University of Sri Jayewardenepura has become the first university in South Asia to report its greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the ISO 14064-1:2018 standard. The official Awarding Ceremony of the ISO 14064-1:2018 certificate took place on Thursday at the Senate Boardroom of the University. The Jayewardenepura University has in a media statement said […]

Weekend power cuts reduced with rain