By Shamindra Ferdinando General Secretary of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) Vasudeva Nanayakkara, MP, yesterday (20) said that the UNP had sold the urea plant at Sapugaskanda to a foreign buyer who set it up in an Arab country.Having brought the machinery as scrap iron the buyer had re-installed the machinery and today Sri Lanka […]
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KANGAR, Perlis –Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad lost his seat in Parliament after residents of Langkawi on Saturday voted to put Perikatan Nasional (PN) in control of the island constituency.It is the 97-year-old’s first defeat in Malaysia’s parliamentary elections since he lost in 1969. The Langkawi seat was won by Datuk Suhaimi Abdullah from PN, […]
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana announced to the House, on Friday, that he endorsed eights Bills in terms of the provisions of Article 79 of the Constitution. He has endorsed the certificate on the Small Claims Courts’ Procedure, Judicature (Amendment), High Court of the Provinces (Special Provisions) (Amendment), Civil Procedure Code (Amendment), Kandyan Marriage and Divorce […]
The ministerial consultative committee on water supply is considering a proposal for another water tariff hike.The consultative committee on water supply, which met at the parliamentary complex last week, received the proposal to increase water tariffs. The committee also discussed a new tax to be levied on bottled water and the current state of the […]