Category: Local News

World Bank Vice President for South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer said that the World Bank will increase assistance to Sri Lanka under three of its new operations. They include assisting the agriculture sector faced with climatic vagaries, irrigation, renewable energy, climate resilience operations and renovation of tanks in rural areas.

Spill gates of the Kotmale, Laxapana and Wimalasurendra reservoirs have been opened due to the incessant rains experienced in these areas.

The decision to increase the price of a 450 g loaf of bread has been revised, stated the bakery Owners’ Association.

Members of a number of Teachers’ and Principals’ unions will be on sick leave today and tomorrow.

The discussions held with Minister of Postal Services & Muslim Religious Affairs Abdul Haleem have failed, the postal trade unions stated.

A consignment of 102 container loads of garbage imported from the United Kingdom now lies in the Colombo port while another 122 containers of garbage have already been cleared out of the port to unknown destinations within the country because of a loophole in import regulations created during the previous government, the country’s Customs officers’ union claimed yesterday.

Common candidate was a term that no longer had any political value in the country thanks to the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government, JVP Kalutara District MP Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said, addressing the media at the party headquarters in Pelawatte.

The current postal strike has interrupted the mail exchange procedure in the Colombo area.

The price of a loaf of bread has been increased by Rs. 5 with effect from midnight today (17), stated the Bakery Owners’ Association.

Muslim politicians are reported to have agreed to amend the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) on four categories including that of increasing the marriageable age to 18, but disagreement over four other categories had hampered the process of enacting the amendments,

President Maithripala Sirisena says all perpetrators of the Easter Sunday attacks should be sentenced to death.

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said, there is no other group that suffered more under this Government than the Buddhist clergy, as they even remanded monks.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said, on Monday, in Jaffna that he would do his utmost to find a political solution to the national question within the next two years.

President Maithripala Sirisena disclosed yesterday that he had personally spoken with Singapore’s Prime Minister concerning the extradition of Central Bank bond scam suspect former Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran.

Due to several demands not being met, the Joint Postal Trade Union Alliance stated that a token strike will be launched from 4 pm today(July 16) to 4 pm tomorrow (July 17) at the Central Mail Exchange.

State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake yesterday said there was no need for him to seek an apology from the Maha Sangha as he had not made any statement insulting the Maha Sangha and said he only spoke about a ‘handful of monks’.