Category: Local News

The Special Commodity Levy on imported white sugar has been increased to Rs 2.00 per kilogram and Rs 15 per kilogram on raw sugar with effect from midnight yesterday, the Finance Ministry announced.

Sri Lanka told the 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday, that constructive engagement with the Special Procedures and the UN system as a whole has benefitted Sri Lanka “significantly”, and it looks forward to continuing the engagement.

India on Thursday signed an MoU with Sri Lanka to support livelihood of the fishing and farming communities by providing them equipment worth USD two million in the country’s southern Hambantota district.

Parliamentarian Mahindananda Aluthgamage was arrested by the CID a short while ago, the Police said.

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers have approved the new amendments to Value Added Tax (VAT) Bill.

Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) will implement a National Standard for plugs and socket outlets in Sri Lanka for non-industrial applications.

Sri Lanka has stopped issuing on-arrival visas for Bangladeshi nationals without informing Dhaka, officials at the Bangladesh foreign ministry said.

The Attorney General yesterday told the Supreme Court that the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy would not go ahead with the proposed joint-venture coal-fired power project with India at Sampur, Trincomalee.

Sri Lanka fiscal deficit goal for 2016 would still be challenging despite a better-than-expected performance in the first half by the coalition government due to possible populist policies ahead of local elections next year, economists said on Tuesday.

President Maithripala Sirisena says the next year will be planned as a year for implementation of well planned programmes for promotion of Buddhism.

Scores of suspected war criminals seeking to live in Britain escaped deportation thanks to a series of blunders.

National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, yesterday, charged that the government was in a hurry to draft a new Constitution, to satisfy the whims and fancies of UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein.

An appalling lack of security at the airport and a corrupt Malaysian administration are blamed for the brutal assault on the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Malaysia, Ibrahim Sahib Ansar, by local Indian Tamil radicals at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the New Indian Express reported.

The festival of Hajj, also known as Eid-ul-Alha symbolizes the noble human values and the ideals of sacrifice that left a deep and significant impression in the historic Muslim legend.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe issuing a message said that Hajj Festival is celebrated in a true spirit of fellowship among Muslims all over the world, gave us great insights into the need for reconciliation and unity.

The Army has agreed to release to civilians 700 more acres of private land occupied by it in the Valikamam North area in Jaffna