By Raisa Wickrematunge Local alcohol prices may only rise by Rs. 10 to 15, and not Rs. 50 as previously reported, the Excise Department said. The decision to increase alcohol prices had been made by local alcohol manufacturers, not by the government, an official from the Department said on conditions of anonymity. The final price [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara The Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) is to solicit the support of the Mahanayaka Theros and opposition political party leaders to get the 21 jailed IUSF members released, acting Convener IUSF, Sanjeewa Bandara told The Sunday Leader. According to Bandara, the IUSF Bhikku Wing will be meeting the four Mahanayaka Theros this [...]
Presidential Secretariat Allegedly Involved By Dinouk Colombage Pandemonium reigned in Jaffna when the Public Library was stormed by hundreds of unarmed assailants on October 23. Hundreds of people in over 30 buses stormed the library at about 7 pm, says retired Municipal Council Commissioner C.V.K Sivagnanam in a letter to President Rajapaksa, dated October 27. [...]
MCC will host the third NatWest One Day International between England and Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Sunday, 3 July 2011. The Home of Cricket takes over from the Emirates Durham ICG which was originally scheduled to host the fixture. Lord’s will now host two Test matches and two ODIs in 2011 – one each [...]
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) had extended its censorship campaign to dissident websites critical of the government and President Rajapaksa, The Sunday Leader reliably learns. Several websites that are opposing the government had been banned without any legal procedures. Among them, LankaNewsWeb had been banned by the TRCSL for months due to [...]
Mobile telephony helps those at the bottom of the pyramid (earning less than US$ two a day) to increase their incomes and have greater access to job opportunities, a study has revealed. Sriganesh Lokanathan of Lirneasia, a think tank with a bent on the use of technology to uplift the indigent told reporters on Tuesday [...]
Janashakthi Insurance PLC recently launched a unique Sports Insurance Policy, for the benefit of all sportsmen and women in Sri Lanka, providing a range of benefits including personal accident cover on sports injuries. Other benefits include hospitalisation due to sports injuries, home nursing expenses, student benefit assistance, parent inconvenience benefit and physiotherapy cover. This novel [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The notice by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) that the public should exercise due care when depositing monies in licensed commercial banks, specialised banks and registered financial institutions has created much confusion. Among the banks listed by the CBSL are the state managed Bank of Ceylon and the People’s [...]
A negative perception of Sri Lanka still persists among the investor community in the West (US and EU), a global fund manager said. Don Laguardia, Principal, LR Global, a US$ 800 million US based fund, speaking at a seminar in Colombo on Wednesday said that what is in the mind of Sri Lanka of an [...]
Diet Dilemmas My sisters and I were having this totally futile discussion about various diets (in our case it’s a wasted exercise) and after a while I think my Big Sis got rather bored with the conversation. “Oh,” she airily announced, “I’m a fruitarian on some days, I drink lots of wine and beer! Wine [...]
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