The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Thursday as a state-run bank, through which the central bank usually directs the market, raised the currency’s peg against the dollar by 25 cents to let the exchange rate depreciate to 133.75, dealers said.
The Director General of Health Services, Dr. Palitha Mahipala stated that the Sri Lankan instant noodles is safe for the human consumption which was declared as not safe early.
Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, in a special statement issued yesterday, urged the nation to defeat the elements trying to reverse the “January 08” mandate and vote for honest and respectable candidates.
Sri Lankan shares jumped to their highest in more than six months on Wednesday on hopes of political stability after the Aug. 17 parliamentary elections and better earnings in the April-June quarter, brokers said.
It is hard to achieve a significant sustainable economic development without focusing on the development of the export sector, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been providing equipment and assistance to Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which has been accused of kidnapping and torture, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Twenty one passengers were hospitalized after two buses had collided head-on at Radawadunna in Nittambuwa on the Colombo-Kurunegala main road this morning, police said.
Secretary General of the Liberal Party Kamal Nissanka addressing a meeting at Bishop Lauxman Wickremesinghe Hall in Kurunegala said that the UPFA election manifesto resembles’ Santa Claus is coming to town’ and therefore it is like a Christmas hamper or a food basket
After losing some of its big stars, Sri Lankan cricket is going through a tough period. The signals coming from the island nation are not very promising either.
Another person injured during the shooting incident at Kotahena last Friday has succumbed to his injuries. The injured person was receiving treatment at the National hospital at the time of his demise.
SLFP spokesman Dilan Perera yesterday said that two UNP candidates, Srinath Perera, PC and Deputy Justice Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe had confirmed that Friday’s attack near St. Benedict’s College, Kotahena involved two underworld gangs jousting for dominance.
Undeterred by the upcoming election, a confident Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has declared that the 2016 fiscal program will be presented under the more effective ‘Zero-Based Budgeting’, claiming that past practices had been imprudent.
Construction work on the first stage of the Colombo – Kandy Expressway from Kadawatha to Meerigama will be launched by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today.
