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By Ifham Nizam Public shouldn’t take the work to rule campaign by the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union (CEBEU) seriously, said the Spokesman of the newly launched Senior Engineers Association Nandika Pathirage. Pathirage alleged that the CEBEU was trying to delay the power generation plans. Once the plans were delayed these engineers could push for […]

Minister official accused of conspiring to bankrupt local manufacturers By Chaminda Silva Jobs of around 500,000 locals involved in the footwear and leather products industry were at stake owing to a decision by ministry officials to suspend imports of essential raw materials, warns Sri Lanka Footwear and Leather Products Manufacturers Association. Addressing the media, in Colombo yesterday, the Association’s Vice […]

SLPP heavyweight says Govt. can do without them By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) heavyweight and Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has asked the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to leave the government as the SLPP could do without its support. Addressing the media on Saturday (27), Minister Ranatunga asked former President and SLFP leader […]

Law is Light is a trilingual legal project to shed light on the law. The Latin maxim “ignorantia legis neminem excusat” translates to ingnorance of the law is not an excuse. The Pro Bono Committee of the Law Students’ Association of Sri Lanka strives to educate the general public by simplifying the laws in our […]

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the Deputy National Security Advisor of India Shri Pankaj Saran, at the National Security Council office in New Delhi. Deputy National Security Advisor Saran cordially welcomed High Commissioner Moragoda and had an extensive discussion with him. The discussion between the Deputy National Security Advisor of […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita The government must make 10-day quarantine mandatory for those who have arrived in Sri Lanka from Africa or have transited from Africa since 10 November due to the newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Management Consultant Dr. Sanjaya Perera told The Island yesterday. Dr. Perera added that issuing a travel […]

A few days ago a very interesting article in the Daily Mirror newspaper quoted Gamini Lokuge, the Minister of Power and Renewable Energy, saying that Sri Lanka could be developing renewable energy plants up to 30,000 MW capacity and selling very large amounts of electricity to India through an undersea cable and even selling electricity […]

By Anura Gunasekera A few days ago President Gotabaya Rajapaksa(GR), the first military man and, unarguably, the most ignorant in the ways of governance to occupy the presidential seat, celebrated the completion of two years as the eighth president of the Republic of Sri Lanka. The salutation coincided with the formal vesting with the Sangha, […]

This month’s edition of Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar, on Tuesday 30 November at 7.00 pm on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, makes a journey to the hill capital Kandy to the Alliance Française de Kandy. A venue of historical significance in central Sri Lanka which […]

This is an amusing incident that took place several years ago. One evening we, then schoolboys, were playing soft ball cricket at the Mahinda College grounds, when someone came rushing up and told us that a young servant girl of a certain household had climbed a huge tree as a mark of protest over some […]