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Company Announcement no. 135 – 2023Copenhagen, December 15th, 2023 Major shareholder announcement – HICO Group Pursuant to section 30 of the Danish Capital Markets Act, notice is hereby given...

By Rathindra Kuruwita About 30 inmates of the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre, who escaped on Sunday, were still at large, the police said. Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Maj. Gen. Darshana Hettiarachchi said that out of those who had escaped, 201 had been arrested. They were detained at the SSP offices of Welikanda, Polonnaruwa and Mananpitiya and […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Young officials must not be denied opportunites for career advancement, and attempts by some Class 1 officers of the education service, who must retire by 31 December to remain in the service must be thwarted, General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) Joseph Stalin, said. Stalin said by the end of […]

… endorses President’s criticism of Parliament By Shamindra Ferdinando Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday (08) said that the party leaders were yet to respond to his request for the appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to examine TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s criticism of the Supreme Court. Minister Rajapakse said that he was […]

The interrogation of a person, 43, arrested with 544 g of heroin at Dickwella on Sunday (06) led to the detection of 25 packs containing heroin by a fishing craft off the Kudawella fisheries harbour, on Oct. 11 this year. Police identified the suspect as a member of the six-man crew of the fishing craft […]

17th Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration The 17th Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration will be delivered at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, 29 November at the BMICH by Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Deshamanaya Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy on the topic “Economic Crisis : Where are we, and where do we go from here ?” […]

…vessel on its way to Canada More than 300 Sri Lankans were rescued at sea off the Spratly Islands after their fishing vessel was damaged and found adrift, Vietnam media reported yesterday (08) A spokesperson for the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center said Tuesday the agency received news that the Myanmar-flagged Lady R3 […]

Squatters in sanctuaries exacerbates human-jumbo conflict By Ifham Nizam Giant Squirrels also known as Rock Squirrels, and monkeys destroy some 107 million coconuts annually, a recent survey by the research team of the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agricultural Research and Training Institute has revealed. Agriculture, Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation Ministry officials had a discussion, last Friday, on how to solve […]

One of the alleged masterminds had been on prez’s delegation to Libya in 2009 By Shamindra Ferdinando Secretary to the Finance Ministry Mahinda Siriwardena yesterday (07) said that the ongoing investigation into the alleged Thico scam haD received the attention of the Central Bank and Monetary Board.  Siriwardena, one of the five members of the Monetary […]

A bust of Sir D.B. Jayatilaka, the first representative of Sri Lanka to India, commissioned by the High Commission of Sri Lanka, in New Delhi, in a bid to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Sri Lanka sending her first Representative to India, in 1942, was ceremonially unveiled yesterday (07). A few former High Commissioners of India […]