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Treasury bill auction Sri Lanka’s weekly treasury bill auction held today...
The daughter of the slain political leader Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra has joined the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party in a bid to start her political journey, said a local media report.
Hirunika Premachandra once a model earlier announced that she will enter politics to fill the shoes of her father, who was assassinated.
Premachandra was assassinated few months [...]
An Ex-U.S Diplomat wants India to work towards ejecting China from Sri Lanka and make Sri Lanka a kind of vassal state of India, says a Media report.
The Former U.S. diplomat, William H. Avery, in a book written by him has said, by doing this India must respond to the challenge of an authoritarian China.
According [...]
French embassy in Sri Lanka says LTTE stamps printed in France are not a part of the country’s postal services.
It says, neither those stamps are being sold in French post offices.
This statement from the French embassy comes following recent reports, which said the stamps depicting the picture of the LTTE Leader and LTTE symbols are [...]
A stamp has been issued in France with the face of the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on it, a media report said.
The news item published on Indiatoday said the stamp has been issued with the approval of the French government.
According to the news report, pro tiger groups operating in France has work towards issuing 4 [...]
Sri Lanka has established a high level Task Force to work out a viable business model to develop the country’s handloom sector by bringing in public private partnership model.
Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishard Bathiudeen says the task force is tasked with the role of identifying the challenges and issues faced by the Industry.
According to [...]
United National Party has elected Ranil Wickremesinghe to continue as its leader.
Sajith Premadasa has been chosen as the Party’s deputy leader.
Eastern Provincial Councilor Daya Gamage won the post of National Organizer of the party.
94 persons consisting of working committee members and the UNP Parliamentarians voted at this most crucial vote of the party’s history which [...]
Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party alleges that one of its MP’s was attacked inside the parliament by a Government MP, this morning.
Opposition Parliamentarian Range Bandara, who represents the Puttlam District, speaking to News360.lk said, he was attacked by Arundhika Fernando, a Government MP who is also representing the same Electoral District as Bandara.
The [...]
Sajith Premadasa and Ravi Karunanayake will compete against each other to grab the UNP’s deputy Leader’s post.
Premadasa is known as a Karu Jayasuriya loyalist while Ravi Karunayake is a Ranil Wickremasinghe loyalist.
Meanwhile, Dayasiri Jayasekera and Daya Gamage will compete against each other for the post of National Organizer of the party.
The working committee members and [...]
On Monday Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party will hold an election to elect the Party Leader.
UNP’s Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya will take on the current leader Ranil Wickremasinghe.
The Party’s working committee which met this afternoon has decided to hold the election following Karu Jayasuriya forwarding nominations to contest for the leadership position.
94 persons [...]
Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission’s report which studied the conduct of Sri Lanka’s final military effort against the LTTE, reports that the country’s security forces deliberately slowed down its operations in the final stages of the conflict, in a bid to avoid civilian casualties or minimize them.
The Report, which was tabled in Parliament today 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