2021

The Board of Directors of Union Bank of Colombo PLC announced the appointment of experienced Economist and Public Policy Specialist Dr. Roshan Anne Perera as an Independent Non-executive Director, with effect from July 5, 2021.…
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Saegis Campus, a leading higher education institution, recently strengthened its partnership with Pearson to offer students the opportunity to pursue internationally recognized BTEC HNDs in Business, Computing and Engineering with the…
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Two State Ministry portfolios were reshuffled and accordingly, two State Ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday (08). Shasheendra Rajapaksa was sworn in as Organic Fertilizer Production, Supply and…
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Former Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe MP yesterday instructed the party’s legal unit to take immediate legal action against the government’s decision to ban protests and agitations under the Quarantine Act and…
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The government grace period for non-payment of loans and interest installments on loans and leasing facilities obtained by travel service providers from banks and financial institutions will be extended up to December 2021, Tourism…
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Disciplinary action will be taken against any players, no matter how talented, for dishonouring the country they are representing, Sports and Youth Minister Namal Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday (08). No matter how talented a…
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Defence Secretary Gen. Kamal Gunaratne (Retd) stated that based on the assessments of the intelligence sources, no reports on terrorist activities or such related threats were reported. He was responding to an updated travel advisory…
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China was the top lender to Sri Lanka for the first four months of 2021, disbursing 514.9 million US dollars including a 500 million budget support loan, slightly down from an year earlier, official data shows. In the first four months of…
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Reiterating its commitment to expanding connectivity to every corner of the nation, Dialog Axiata PLC, the widest network in Sri Lanka, launched its 4,000th network tower in Thihawa village, Kurunegala, to further expand coverage to…
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Sri Lanka will repay a sovereign bond in 2020 and others as they fall due and there was no requirement for an International Monetary Fund bailout, State Minister for Money and Capital Markets Nivard Cabraal has said. “There is no question…
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