India has done more for Sri Lanka than the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Union Minister for External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar stressed on Saturday. The Modi government, he underlined, is working on developing an “extended neighbourhood” that involves islands in the Indian Ocean, Gulf countries and nations in South-East Asia.
A case filed by fishing community demanding compensation from the owners, operator and insurer of the vessel MV X-Press Pearl and the responsible authorities in Sri Lanka for failure to discharg
The Power and Energy Ministry has decided to increase the fuel quota for vehicles when the prices are revised next month, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said. Sri Lanka introduced the fuel quota last year following difficulties in purchasing adequate quantities of fuel due to foreign reserve shortages. The Minister, said in a Twitter message, that the fuel Quota currently allowed on the national fuel pass QR system will be incr
The government has decided to address the negative effects of blunders and illogical decisions taken by the successive governments over the years on major development projects launched with foreign or local funding, a Minister said.
Up-country and low-country vegetable production declined by more than 50 per cent in 2021 and 2022 due to the government decision to ban the import of chemical fertilizer, a study revealed. A research conducted by
A whistleblower who raised the alarm over a threat posed by gas cylinders and about a garlic scam, says he is prepared to make more expose’s and reveal the names of officials involved in multiple rackets. Former Executive Director of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA), Thushan Gunawardena, told Daily Mirror in an interview conducted in Australia, that he hopes President Ranil Wickremesinghe takes ac
Former PUCSL Chairman, Janaka Ratnayake who was sacked from his position by Parliament on Wednesday said that since all common political candidates had failed, he would contest the next Presidential Election as a People’s Candidate. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Ratnayake said there are a number of political parties in Sri Lanka, but none of these parties had been able to deliver to fulfil the peop
Sri Lanka has been ranked as the 11th most miserable country in the Hanke’s Annual Misery Index (HAMI) 2022. Economist Steve Hanke’s index provided rankings for a total of 157 countries. The index is the sum of the year-end unemployment, inflation, and bank-lending rates, minus the annual percentage change in real GDP per capita.
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