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LocalTags: Print EditionThe Government has signed an agreement to initiate the country’s first-ever cable car project in Nuwara Eliya with an investment of around US$ 55 million. This cable car project will cover a distance of 4 km…

EntertainmentTags: Print EditionHe has become a popular face both on the mini and wide screen these days. He portrays the role of a youth named Pulasthi in Devinda Kongahage’s latest cinematic venture ‘Bavatharana’ while he takes on an…

BusinessTags: Print EditionSwiss brokerage Credit Suisse expects the economy to continue to show positive surprises and record up to 9 per cent growth in the next fiscal. For the current financial year too, the brokerage anticipates…

LocalSubashini SenanayakeTags: Print EditionThe government is not seeking International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans not because it fears measures unpopular with the people but because it fears the IMF will propose cutting down benefits…

ProvokedEntertainmentRuwini JAYAWARDANATags: Print EditionBased on the real life traumatic story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia and inspired by her biography ‘Circle of Light’ by Rahila Gupta, Jagmohan Mundhra’s ‘Provoked’ traces the anguish…

BusinessTags: Print EditionThe Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PA) has urged the authorities to provide an urgent solution to facilitate the availability of appropriate herbicides, weedicides, fungicides and pesticides, which are…

LocalLahiru FernandoTags: Print EditionPolice have proposed several changes to the existing traffic light system at main junctions in order to ease the traffic congestion within Colombo City, said the OIC of the Colombo City Traffic…

WorldTags: Print EditionThe Cost of Living climbed again in November and drove the rate of U.S. inflation to a nearly 40-year of 6.8%, putting more pressure on households as they confront rising prices of gas, food, cars and rents. The…

BusinessTags: Print EditionLanka Salt Company for the second year in succession will be paying a bonus to its employees today at 10 a.m. “This would be equivalent to their one month salary and we have allocated around Rs. 47 million…

SportsDhammika RatnaweeraTags: Print EditionJaffna Kings, led by Thisara Perera, produced a superb display to beat Kandy Warriors by seven wickets with eight balls to spare under the D/L method in their rain-hit LPL game played at the…