Samagi Jana Balawegaya will consider supporting Budget 2023 if it comprises effective proposals to take the nation out of economic crisis and ease the burden of the people, the party’s National Organizer Tissa Attanayake said yesterday.
The Sri Lanka Army held a leadership programme for school prefects at St Thomas’ College, Vijaya College, Government Science College, Christ Church College and Sri Sangamiththa girls’ National School of Matale on October 28 at BooWelikada. The programme was coordinated, monitored and administered solely by the School of Signals under the guidance and coordination of the Director Media and Army Spokesman at Army Headquarters and Director Perspecti
USAID had pledged to donate 36,000 Mt of triple phosphate needed for paddy cultivation, Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera said yesterday. The Minister revealed this during a meeting he had with the ministry officials with regard to supplying fertilizer for the 2022/23 cultivating season.
Sri Lanka’s illicit liquor industry has grown by 300 per cent in the recent times and not all these illegal spirits are brewed in the remote shrub jungles but inside licensed distilleries too, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said.
The current foreign exchange liquidity shortage is leading to rising unemployment hand in hand with hyperinflation, a situation which economists call stagflation, the United Federation of Labour says in a statement.
The Foreign Ministry said it is monitoring the situation in central Seoul closely where over 150 people were killed on Saturday and some 100 were injured in a stampede, when thousands crowded into narrow streets to celebrate Halloween.
The Magistrate who considered the submissions ordered TID officials to submit a report on the two suspects to the Colombo Magistrate’s Court No.08 on November 04
A four-year-old boy from Gemunu Mawatha, Boralugodawatta in Minuwangoda was kidnapped on Thursday evening (27) by an unidentified group of individuals who came by van. Investigations revealed that the child was playing with his uncle when he was kidnapped. Min
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