There has been a significant increase in the number of intercepted forged documents at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) over the past five years, with 181 forged documents intercepted in 2023 alone, the Immigration and Emigration Department said.
In the wake of declaration of the Presidential Elections, the main candidates, particularly President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa have doubled down on their efforts to woo various parties and individuals, particularly those representing the minority communities to strengthen their bids for presidency.
Sri Lanka Immigration and Emigration Department securing a position to send an officer to function at the Regional Support Office (RSO) of the Bali Process to watch human smuggling and migrant trafficking is a great achievement for the country, said the Immigration Chief Harsha Illukpitiya.
Five Fundamental Rights applications filed seeking an order preventing the authorities from issuing any permits to Adani Green Energy Sri Lanka Limited (AGESL), to carrying out the wind power plant in the Mannar Island were today fixed for hearing on October 14 by the Supreme Court.
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board emphasised that if the consumers clean and maintain their water collection tanks at least in three months, the tap water supplied by the board will be of high quality, even for direct consumption.
Galle district SLPP MP Mohan Priyadarshana, who previously pledged support to Ranil Wickremesinghe during the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) politburo meeting on Monday (29), has withdrawn his decision and officially returned to the SLPP.
While stating that Sri Lanka has made commendable progress with putting debt on a path towards sustainability, the IMF staff encouraged a swift resolution of the remaining steps to achieve debt sustainability and regain investor confidence.
Nearly 67 percent of the country’s population is still without sustainable access to safe drinking water in Sri Lanka, Prof. P.P.A. Wasantha Athukorala of the Department of Economics & Statistics of the Peradeniya University said.
Colombo, August 2 (Daily Mirror) - More than 300,000 ’Encarsia Guadeloupe’ parasites were introduced by the Agriculture Department this year to control the spread of whitefly in coconut and king coconut plantations, the Coconut Cultivation Board said.
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