Sri Lanka’s 2011 tea production records 328.3 million kilograms Sri Lanka’s tea production during the year 2011...
Treasury bill auction Sri Lanka’s weekly treasury bill auction held today...
Sri Lanka’s listed Vallibel Power Erathna PLC has started commercial operations of a another mini hydro-power plant.
The company says, it completed the construction work of the 4.65 MegaWatt Kiriwaneliya Mini Hydro Power Project, recently.
The plant comes under the “Country Energy Private Limited”, a subsidiary of Vallibel Power Erathna PLC.
Sri Lankan government has ordered 161 foreigners who are currently staying in the Island to preach the virtues of Islam to Muslims, to leave the country, say a media report.
“The group which arrived in different batches have violated their visa status,” Immigration and Emigration Controller Chulananda Perera has told the Sunday Times news paper.
According to [...]
Sri Lanka today released water to the tunnel of the Upper Kotmale hydro power project, which is the longest tunnel in the country.
The water which will flow through this 13 km long tunnel is expected to help turn the turbines of the power plant, which is the last such mega scale hydro power project carried [...]
Sri Lanka today handed over licenses to nearly 60 News websites which are engaged in reporting news covering Sri Lankan Affairs.
The registration of the news websites took place following a selection process which also consisted of one to one interviews between the website operators and the Ministry Officials.
Ministry says the license will be valid for [...]
Sri Lanka will receive a US$ 382.37 million loan from India’s Export and Import Bank to restore the Northern railway line, which was destroyed during the three decades of war.
Out of the loan, US$ 149.3 will be used to reconstruct the railway line from Pallai to Kankasanthurai, while another US$ 86.52 million will be used [...]
A British man killed on holiday in Sri Lanka has been described as a “committed” Red Cross worker.
Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Manchester, was a physiotherapist working for the International Red Cross in Gaza.
He died early on December 25 after an attack on him and a colleague in the tourist resort of Tangalle. Four people have [...]
Sri Lanka has decided to shift its main vegetable market located in Pettah to make way for the modernization program of the Colombo City, which is currently underway.
Authorities today revealed that the massive vegetable market which attracts thousands of people and hundreds of lorries carrying fruits & vegetables on a daily basis will be shifted [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.
Kim’s death 17 years after he inherited power from his father was announced today by the state television from the North Korean capital,Pyongyang. [...]
Sri Lanka has renamed and plans to relocate its proposed multifunctional communication tower to the Center of Colombo city, from the earlier planned location of Peliyagoda.
The cabinet of Ministers has given the approval to rename the tower as the “Colombo Lotus Tower Project” and also have decided to shift the project to a central tourist [...]
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce will kick start an industrial energy saving initiative starting from January 2012, in a bid to help local companies reduce energy usage, thus bringing down their cost of production.
Under this Rs. 4.5 million initiative, officials have selected 16 local firms which will initially undergo energy audits conducted by [...]
President Rajapaksa inspecting the “Tyson bite”
Sri Lanka host “Ayubowan China”
An Indian teacher finds $9.8bn in his bank balance
Deepawali celebrations at the Temple Trees
Cruise ship “Costa Concordia” sinks
The navy saves “The Greyhound of the sea”
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani arrives in Sri Lanka