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Sri Lanka is preparing to issue two-year oil and gas exploration licenses for as many as 900 offshore blocks for foreign…

By PRIYAN DE SILVA A teacher accused of caning and injuring a Grade five student of Lunama Maha Vidyalaya, Ambalanthota was arrested yesterday.The teacher was to be produced before the Angunukolapelessa Magistrate. The girl was admitted to the Tangalle Base Hospital.The parents of the victim said they had been compelled to lodge a complaint with […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, with funding through USAID, is planning to distribute 9,300 MT of Urea to smallholder paddy farmers cultivating paddy on land holdings up to 2.5 acres in Jaffna, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Anuradhapura, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and Moneragala districts, with less than 41,500 rupees in permanent monthly income. […]

By Saman Indrajith There was a delay in releasing funds for the payment of gratuity to retiring government employees due to the current economic crisis and a large number of persons had been placed awaiting list, Director General of Pensions Jagath D. Dias told the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Public Administration. “All payments up to […]

By Saman Indrajith Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha yesterday admitted in Parliament that Sri Lankan schoolchildren were not receiving adequate food.Answering a question posed by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, the Minister said the government was trying to allocate more funds for the school mid-day meal programme. Premadasa said, “I would like to urge the government […]

By A.J.A. Abeynayake Colombo Chief Magistrate Nandana Amarasinghe yesterday (11) issued an injunction banning State Minister Diana Gamage from leaving the country without authorisation from the Court. The ban was imposed when the Court considered a complaint filed by social activist Oshala Herath alleging that the State Minister’s identity documents, including her passport, birth certificate […]

By Saman Indrajith The controversy over the berthing of China’s space and satellite tracking research vessel, Yuan Wang 5, at Hambantota was proof of how Sri Lanka mismanaged its foreign policy, says JVP Politburo Member and International Affairs Secretary, Bimal Ratnayake. Rantnayake, in a brief interview with The Island, said India would continue interfere with […]

Bell Geospace, the world leaders in gravity gradiometry, has conducted the first aerial mapping of petroleum resources in Sri Lanka in Q4 of 2021, and will be presenting these insights – together with Wintermoon Geophysics- at the prestigious SEAPEX (South East Asia Petroleum Exploration Society) As

Search for offshore oil BY Trevor Jayatillake The Petroleum Resources Development Secretariat (PRDS) hopes to go for joint study blocks in its next round of bidding in the search of its Hydrocarbon El Dorado. It is also putting up the contentious M2 offshore block in the Mannar Basin for investors to test its commercial potential. […]

Sri Lanka is in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis.