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LocalTags: Print EditionSri Lanka Navy apprehended a local multi-day fishing trawler with 38 individuals, suspected to be on an illegal migration attempt to Australia via sea. This trawler was detected during a search operation carried…

Rs.3.1 bn 50 faulty generator purchaseLocalTags: Print EditionThe attention of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) was drawn to an incident of 50 generators purchased in 2017 and 2018 at a cost of Rs.3,100 million which…

LocalTags: Print EditionFrustration grows as long lines are seen outside the Department of Immigration and Emigration where passport-seekers have been camping out for days till their turn comes to obtain their passports. Picture by…

LocalTags: Print EditionA Gazette Extraordinary issued on Thursday night creating two new portfolios, namely, Minister of Technology and Investment Promotion and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment by President…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe COPE Committee has revealed that 35 university lecturers who went abroad on study leave at the University of Moratuwa alone were found to be in arrears of Rs. 51,649,961 as at 31 December 2021 due to breach…

Opening of sluice gates at Randenigala and Rantambe reservoirs:LocalIrangika RangeTags: Print EditionPower and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said yesterday that the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board…

LocalTags: Print EditionAgriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday instructed the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) to process 43,000 metric tonnes of paddy into rice and send it to the market. The Paddy Marketing Board currently has…

LocalAsela KURULUWANSATags: Print EditionPeradeniya University’s Allied Health Sciences Faculty has decided to grant two weeks emergency leave to first year students due to harassment by a group of senior students. It is learned that…

LocalIshara MudugamuwaTags: Print EditionIt is no longer be mandatory to wear a face mask outdoors or indoors in Sri Lanka from today. Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardena said that the individuals will no longer…

LocalTags: Print EditionLeaders of nine political Parties, including the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa urging him to immediately begin bilateral talks to buy…