Sri Lankan music legends, Rookantha Goonatillake and Chandralekha Perera were honoured at the Victorian Parliament in Australia for their outstanding contributions to the Sri Lankan music Industry and the Sri Lankan community of Australia.
Fast-rising home insurance premiums have plunged 1.6m households into affordability stress, an Actuaries Institute report has warned, with those in cyclone and flood-prone areas facing significant spikes in cost.
The Government will strive to promote entrepreneurship among youth, initiating a shift in credit accessibility in the form of seed capital to launch new businesses and startups, former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake revealed. Sri Lanka’s youth population of 4.64 million, or 23.2 percent of the total population, are the changemakers steering the country towards a flourishing entrepreneurial ecosystem and vigorous economic growth, he added
A solution to the woes of dairy farmers in Mailaththamadu in Batticaloa is still not in sight despite the loss of around 1,400 cattle that provide the daily income for a large number of farmer families in the East. The call to end the problem caused by forceful settlements from the South has fallen on deaf ears. Farmers said those who had settled in the area have done so with the backing of politicians. They added that the cattle were killed by p
In a bid to engage Sri Lanka’s youth in the nation’s future, the Presidential Secretariat hosted an insightful Youth Dialogue at the President’s House on Paget Road recently. The event featured President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Chief-of-Staff Saga
Republican legislators on the House of Representatives’ influential China-focused committee on Friday urged the U.S. to investigate six Chinese state-owned companies for allegedly helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions.
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July trade deficit up over higher imports, but exports remain robust
Colombo district land prices increase 6.9% YoY