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Drug addicts used to be treated for 18 months at Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre in the past, but the treatment period has been reduced to six months now, Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said in Parliament on Thursday. “Most people in Kandakadu now are addicted methamphetamines. Most of the drug barons have […]

By Saman Indrajith Tourists were facing difficulties due to lack of coordination among institutions tasked with promoting tourism, Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), Priyantha Fernando said. Fernando said that Russians who arrived at Mattala airport on the Red Wings airline had waited for over four hours due to a shortage of immigration […]

Watchdog committee critical of Labour Minister, summons Secy. By Shamindra Ferdinando The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has strongly protested against the executive intervening and undermining the parliamentary process in the wake of Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara’s unprecedented attack on Auditor General W.P.C. Wickramaratne at the National Productivity Awards ceremony held at […]

The Central Bank, on Thursday, said Sri Lanka ended 2022 with gross forex reserves of 1,896 million dollars, up from 1,804 million US dollar, in November.The Central Bank said reserves are largely unchanged after interest rate hikes in April.The country began 2022 with reserves of 3.1 billion US dollars but ran out of foreign reserves […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Year 2023 would be wore than 2022, Secretary to the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA), Dr. Haritha Aluthge said. “Professionals will be taxed directly and unjustly. Meanwhile, indirect taxes that affect the poor people most, have also been increased. We have tried our best to make the government rethink the tax policy. […]

The contract is the first major foreign investment deal since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021.Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin and develop an oil reserve in the country’s northern Sar-e Pul province. The contract was signed on Thursday by […]

(ANI): The Tamil Nadu Police on Thursday seized around six lakh tablets (banned narcotic pills in Sri Lanka) on the coast near Vedalai village in the state’s Ramanathapuram.According to the Q branch police, the seized tablets were seized in a country boat to be smuggled to Sri Lanka. The police found these boxes in a […]

Ceylon Electricity Board United Trade Union Alliance convenor Ranjan Jayalal yesterday alleged that the CEB, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) and the Ministry of Power and Energy were working together to increase the electricity tariff by an unjust amount.Jayalal said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe is trying to implement his Regaining Sri Lanka […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Uttara Lanka Sabawa (ULS), and Nidahas Sabawa, would join forces with another party represented in Parliament to form a coalition to contest the coming Local Council election, leaders of the parties said, addressing the media at the Elections Secretariat, yesterday. ULS member MP Wimal Weerawansa said […]

The Harvard Kennedy School in the United States rescinded a fellowship offer to the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) over the well-respected organisation’s criticism of Israeli government policies, US magazine The Nation has reported. Kenneth Roth, who spent nearly three decades as the executive director of HRW before announcing his retirement in April, […]