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Measures to provide services without interruption during season

Srilanka, March 30 -- The Government has prepared a comprehensive programme to stabilise the economy in the face of global challenges and steps have also been taken to provide services without interru... Read More


PUCSL announces electricity tariff increase effective April 1

Srilanka, March 30 -- The tariff revision follows a proposal submitted by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), which earlier requested a 13.56% increase in electricity tariffs for the second quarter of... Read More


Commissioner General of Motor Traffic arrested by CID

Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Commissioner General of Motor Traffic, Kamal Amarasinghe, was arrested last night (27) by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in connection with alleged irregulariti... Read More


Smart railway service to launch with digital ticketing system

Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Deputy Minister of Highways, Dr. Prasanna Gunasena, announced plans to introduce a modern digital ticketing system and upgraded inspection equipment across railway stations ... Read More


Mainly dry weather to prevail over most parts of the island

Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Department of Meteorology says showers or thundershowers may occur at a few places in Rathnapura, Kaluthara, Galle and Matara districts during the evening or night.Weather ... Read More


SC orders Rs. 275 Mn compensation over drugs procurement scandal

Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Supreme Court yesterday ordered former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and four former senior health officials pay a total amount of Rs.275 million to state, after ruli... Read More


RTI Commission decision against Central Bank's Monetary Board set aside by CA

Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Court of Appeal has set aside a 2018 directive issued by the Right to Information Commission against the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, holding that the Co... Read More


Confectionery Owners assure to withhold price hikes till May

Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Sri Lanka Confectionery Owners' Association yesterday assured Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe, that the prices of b... Read More


Sri Lankan caught with contraband wildlife

Sri Lanka, March 27 -- A Sri Lankan attempting to smuggle 38 live pets into the country was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake yesterday morning. The smuggling attempt... Read More


Ten acres of reserve below Castlereagh Reservoir dam destroyed by fire

Sri Lanka, March 27 -- About 10 acres of the reserve below the Castlereagh Reservoir dam have been destroyed by a fire that broke out due to the severe bad weather prevailing in the reservoir's catchm... Read More