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The Immigrants & Emigrants (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to encourage foreign investors to extend the validity of visas to five years was considered by the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Defence yesterday (22).…

US President Joe Biden urged world leaders to get together to overcome the key challenges faced by the world today by defeating COVID-19 pandemic. The US President made this remark while addressing the 76th Session of the United…

Small and medium scale entrepreneurs are going through a very challenging period with the loss of income due to the inability to carry out their daily business activities for nearly two years. This has also caused severe hardships and…

Over 228kg of Kerala cannabis abandoned in the beach area of Narivilkulam were seized by the Sri Lanka Navy during a special foot patrol carried out at the above beach yesterday. Sri Lanka Navy has been conducting regular…

A heated exchange of words took place between Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Vadivel Suresh and UNP MP Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament yesterday. Raising an issue of privileges and threat to his life, Vadivel Suresh alleged…

882 more individuals recovered from COVID-19 bringing the total recoveries in the country to 435,022, the Epidemiology Unit confirmed

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal submitted by the Minister of Finance to increase the credit limit of Rs. 2,997 billion approved by the Appropriation Act No.7 of 2020 by another Rs.400 billion to Rs.3,397 billion and to…

The Ports and Shipping Ministry has taken measures to develop Galle Port as a regional commercial port, Co-Cabinet Spokesman Plantation Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana said. Informing the decisions taken at this week's Cabinet…

The Minister of Environment has instructed the Director General of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) to immediately investigate and submit a report regarding the dumping of fuel into the Diyawanna Oya. The Minister of…

The Cabinet of Ministers granted their consent to the proposal made by the Minister of Environment to implement four projects to reduce environmental pollution, Co-Cabinet Spokesman Mass Media Minister Dullas Alahappruma said. He…