The independent polls monitors and Public Health Inspectors are seeking the intervention of the Election Commission to run a probe into the two recent incidents of distributing artificial bottled toddy at Presidential Election campaign rallies in the upcountry.
The government is bound to serve the interests of the people of this country, not only those of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB), Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Namal Rajapaksa said.
Whilst highlighting that eradicating corruption during the Yahapalana government was a success to some extent while there were failures at the same time, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said over the weekend that laws are now in place to rectify the shortcomings.
The funeral of veteran Sri Lankan politician Rukman Senanayake was held at the Borella public cemetery. He was the grandson of the nation’s first Prime Minister, D.S. Senanayake. Rukman Senanayake passed away at the age of 76. Pix by Nimalsiri Edirisinghe
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Sri Lanka urged the voters to elect a wise and courageous leader who can bring about the long awaited system change and eradicate corruption and one who will introduce a new political culture.
Drastic changes have taken place in the health sector after appointing Dr. Maheepala Herath as Health Secretary and the number of patients receiving hospital care has increased, Government Medical Officers’ Forum (GMOF) president, Dr. Rukshan Bellana claimed.
In the wake of controversies surrounding the recent appointment of Harin Fernando and Manusha Nanayakkara as Presidential Advisors by President Wickremesinghe, the Election Commission stated it is carefully monitoring whether the duo is abusing their privileges for election purposes.
Various institutions which purportedly conduct opinion polls and surveys, and publish results in a manner adversarial to some candidates and advantageous to others will come under scrutiny by the Election Commission, an official said yesterday.
Australia’s United Petroleum plans setup a food manufacturing venture in Sri Lanka with an investment of US$ 20-30 million to produce pies and other convenience food items under Australia’s iconic pie brand ‘Pie Face’.
Sri Lanka has earned a robust income of US$ 328.3 million from the tourism trade in July at a level nearly equal to what the country gets from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for six months for raising taxes of its people and corporations and perhaps on their properties and capital gains,
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