ECONOMYNEXT – The award of a contract to build a 300MegaWatt dual fuel power plant on a 20-year power purchase agreement to Sri Lanka-based Lakdhanavi has been delayed due to appeals from losing bidders, a media report said. Sri Lanka’s The Sunday Times said at least two bidders had …
Rachel Seoighe launched her book ‘War, Denial and Nation-Building in Sri Lanka‘, which explores how political discourse has been utilised to deny and re-engineer state violence in Sri Lanka, at an event in London last week. “People were dying in their hundreds, we still don’t know how many people …
The Coast Conservation Department (CCD) has decided to suspend the removal of illegal constructions on the Mirissa and Weligama coastal belt until further notice, Director General B.K. Prabath Chandrakeerthi said today. He told Daily Mirror several own…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board’s short term debt has soared 50 percent to 138 billion rupees, as the utility lost 45.7 billion rupees as diesel generation costs rose with a dividend from coal power ending. Unaudited data had shown that cost of electricity at selling point was …
( April 30, 2018, Islamabad, Sri Lanka Guardian ) Accidents, particularly the road-accidents, are always a result of some negligence rather carelessness. Fate and luck also play an important role in occurrence of an accident. In the first week of this …
Customs authorities in Sri Lanka arrested a Chinese woman who landed at the international airport in the capital for attempting to smuggle in Chinese cigarettes valued at US$88,548. She had tried to pass through the channel for visitors with nothing to…
The deceptions used to topple Syria – mainstream media lies, child actors, false documentaries, paid witnesses are now being systematically exposed and people are beginning to ask the question ‘did we too get fooled by LTTE lies about war crimes in Sri Lanka‘ and it is certainly affecting even the UN …
Sri Lanka has emerged as a preferred destination for Indian travellers in the past few years. Its idyllic beaches, lush tree green plantations and rich and diverse flora and fauna are worth exploring. What its biggest draw are its temples. One of the m…
Apr 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s inflation, as measured by the change in the Colombo Consumers’ Price Index (CCPI) declined to 3.8 percent in April 2018 from 4.2 percent in March 2018, the Department of Census and Statistics reported. The CCPI for all items for the month of April was 121.5 recording an …
Sri Lankan Minister for Buddha Sasana, Gamini Jayawickrema Perera along with Parliamentarians, High Commissioner of Pakistan Dr. Shahid Ahmad Hashmat as well as Senior Monks, high ranking government officials, religious scholars, received the Holy Reli…