Exports up 9.8% to $ 924 m; first five months figure up 6.7% to $ 4.7 b Apparel and textiles key contributor, agri exports dipMay imports
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Chinese bombshell rocks Sri Lankan Parliament
by Faraz Shauketaly. Additional research by Muaad Razick China’s Belt and Road initiative has caused controversy in most of the countries that apparently benefitted from
Justice Prasanna Jayawardena and ‘Conflict of Interest’
News 21.07.2018: Parliament informed by MP Anura Kumar Dissanayake that a Commission Member of the Bond Scam Commission had a serious conflict of interest: his
Prime Minister assures national security is top priority
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe assured that the government will safeguard country’s national security and will not take any measures that would harm the country. Responding
Govt. amends NBT
By Ashwin Hemmathagama Parliament yesterday approved the Nation Building Tax (NBT) (Amendment) Bill with changes allowing several sectors to be exempted from NBT to increase
SL-Singapore FTA need of the hour: Malik
Tells Parliament despite 70 years of freedom SL has not achieved economic independence Govt. attempting to reverse trend and make up for lost time SL aiming
Probe into MR’s Presidential campaign funds still on: PM
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday denied any suspension of investigations into alleged transfer of funds during the 2015 presidential election, a statement made by the
Over $ 16 b investment projects under discussion with Singapore: BOI
Sri Lanka is gearing to reap the benefits of the Free Trade Agreement with Singapore, with four mega projects being discussed by the Board of
21 heroin parcels worth Rs 66 million found at a beach in Sampur
Twenty-one parcels of heroin weighing 5 kilograms and 550 grams in total and worth around Rs 66 million have been found abandoned at the Ilakkanda
Government uses an unseen formula to manipulate fuel prices: MR
Sri Lanka’s ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa alleges the government for what he called fleecing the public through fuel price manipulation using a price formula which nobody