The Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council (SLSC), together with 17 member associations, the Container Transport Owners Association, and the Association of Clearing & Forwarding Agents (ACFA), yesterday expressed deep concern over the tragic death of a container driver who was stranded in line at the Customs exit gate for three days.
The Cabinet this week approved a strategic framework aimed at revitalising Sri Lanka’s fisheries sector. The proposal, presented by the President and Minister of Fisheries, outlined a plan to position the industry as a key economic driver. The strategic report,
With postal voting for the Presidential election just round the corner, the government’s decision to increase public service salaries has come under heavy criticism, with election monitors suggesting it is an attempt to exert influence.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and the National People’s Power (NPP) should retract the proposals in their policy statements regarding increasing the public servants’ salaries, as this task has already been accomplished, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
People were seen waiting outside the Immigration and Emigration Department even in the rain to obtain their passports. Recently, the Immigration Department had limited the issuing of passports due to a shortage of blank passports and also as step to introduce new electronic passports. Pix by Nisal Baduge
The government has approved the training of 7,500 teachers selected from schools covering all the provinces in areas relevant to the STEAM concept, including information technology, biotechnology, engineering technology and mathematics, under three stages by the Skills College of Technology (SCOT CAMPUS).
In the global economy developing, what is triggered is demand for power more and more. The world is starved of resources and has to use its resources sparingly and sustainably to fulfil demands unlimited in human nature. In power generation, the oil and coal-burned era is now heading for an end. The world is heading for more and more clean energy sources, and Sri Lanka is no exception. It has made plans for diversification of its energy mix.
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