Sep 02

FACETS 2010, International Gem and Jewellery show in Sri Lanka opens today

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Sept 02, Colombo: FACETS Sri Lanka 2010, the International Gem and Jewellery Show will be open from today till September 5th at the Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre in Colombo. Read the Full Article
Sep 02

Sri Lanka Freedom Party celebrates the 59th Anniversary today

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Early in the 1950s when a mere 3812 elite urbanites of the then population of 7.5 Million enjoyed m.. Read the Full Article
Sep 02

New British High Commissioner for Sri Lanka

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Britain has appointed John James Rankin, a career foreign officer of the Foreign and Commonwealth Of.. Read the Full Article
Sep 02

SLFP for common good of people - PM

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If there is any political party which has united independent thinkers in Government and Opposition r.. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

New British High Commissioner for Sri Lanka

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Sept 02, Colombo: Britain has appointed John James Rankin, a career foreign officer of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), as the new High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Non-Resident British High Commissioner to the Maldives. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Indian official continues tour in Sri Lanka’s war-torn region

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Sept 01, Colombo: Visiting Foreign Secretary of India Nirupama Rao continued her tour in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka for a second day on Wednesday by traveling to Mullaitivu and Trincomalee. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Dengue mosquito eradication with locally made BTI begins

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Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena today ceremoniously initiated the use of locally produced larvicide BTI bacteria to curb the dengue menace in suburbs of Colombo while First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa participated in a dengue eradication campaign in the Sri Lankan capital. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Report on tortured Sri Lankan housemaid to be given to Saudi government

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Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau says that a report on the incident of torturing a Sri Lankan housemaid allegedly by the employers in Saudi Arabia was to be handed over today to the Saudi government via the Sri Lankan Embassy in that country. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Salaries of Sri Lankan garment workers increased

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Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Wages Board has increased the minimum salary of the employees in the garment sector by 20%, Sri Lanka government says. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Indian Foreign Secretary calls on Sri Lanka President

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Sept 01, Colombo: Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao today called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees. Ms. Rao apprised the President of her visit to the Northern and Eastern provinces and the support Indian government has granted for projects to assist the resettlement of the IDPs. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Sri Lanka President promotes organic farming

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Sept 01, Hambanthota: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa says the government has a clear vision to boost the organic farming in the country to provide the public with local foods free from artificial chemicals and the agricultural officials should encourage the farmers to adhere to organic farming. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

OIC summoned

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The Colombo Fort Magistrate today issued summons on the Police Narcotics Bureau OIC to show cause as to why the police had failed to submit an investigation report over an incident..
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Sep 01

UNP will object

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The UNP working committee has decided to vote against the proposed constitutional reforms when it is debated in Parliament, UNP leader Ranil Wickramasingha told reporters a short while ago. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Canadian authorities separate suspected Tigers from migrants

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Sept 01, Vancouver: Canadian police had separated over three dozen suspected Tamil Tigers from the 492 migrants arrived in Vancouver last month in a Thai cargo ship MV Sun Sea, a Cnews report said yesterday. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Rao, Pillayan talks

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Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had talks with the Eastern Province Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan and the Eastern Province Governor Mohan Wijewickrama this morning. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Sri Lanka’s trade deficit widens over 100 percent in first half of 2010

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Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka's expenditure on imports surpassed the earnings from exports widening the trade deficit by 108.6 percent in the first half of 2010 to US$ 2.844 billion, figures released today by Economic Research Department of Sri Lanka's Central Bank showed. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Sri Lanka Supreme Court to deliver decision on constitutional amendments today

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Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court is to deliver its decision on the proposed amendments to the country's Constitution today to the President and the Speaker. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Report to Lanka

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The Sri Lankan High Commission in Malaysia has compiled a report on the incident where a Sri Lankan was murdered and two others escaped after being abducted by a gang in Malaysia. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Currency seized

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Customs officials confiscated Rs. 70 lacks worth of foreign currency being smuggled out of the country at the Katunayaka International airport, the Customs Superintendent said. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Sri Lanka inflation rises in August after falling for five months

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Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka's rate of inflation, on a year-on-year basis, rose to 5.0 percent in August 2010 after falling for five consecutive months as consumer spending in the country has increased in parallel to the rising global commodity prices. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Constitutional amendments should have Constitutional Council sanction - SL UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella

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* Only hope of referendum now lies with the judiciary * Tinkering with 17th Amendment a retro.. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Indian Foreign Secretary asks Tamils in Northern Sri Lanka to look to the future

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The visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao today told the Tamil people in Northern Sri Lanka.. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Leasing Association partners Asia Microfinance Forum

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The Leasing Association of Sri Lanka (LASL), the Apex body of the leasing industry in Sri Lanka has .. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Hanging thieves of poor man`s drugs

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Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena is in the news these days, not so much because of his politi.. Read the Full Article
Sep 01

Constitutional Council replaced: Sri Lanka Parliament Council mooted

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*PC to include all ethnic groups *In force even under dissolution Rasika SOMAR.. Read the Full Article
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