The seven youth who had gone missing while trekking in the Knuckles Range were rescued by the police today. The Panvila Police said the search operations were launched this morning after one of them had telephoned his parents last night saying they wer…
This year Sri Lanka will despatch its largest ever business and trade delegation targeting the Commonwealth. Sri Lanka is also scheduled to unveil its new country branding & slogan for its ICT sector in London next week. “Sri Lanka is one of the St…
Investing.com – Sri Lanka stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Services, Information Technology and Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares lower. At the close in Colombo, the CSE All-Share lost 0.38% to hit a new 1-month lo…
Like it did for most Sri Lankans, the Boxing Day Tsunami took Sriyanyakanthi by surprise. Earlier that morning, one of biggest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, displacing over seven cubic miles of water and unleashi…
ECONOMYNEXT – Tourist arrivals into Sri Lanka rose 24.1% to 233,382 in March 2018 from a year ago, despite violence against minority Moslems that prompted the government to impose a state of emergency and led to cancellations of hotel bookings. The lar…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister have been urged to stop shuffling secretaries of ministries starting from the next cabinet re-shuffle in a bid to bring back good governance which was broken by ending permanent secretaries. Sri Lanka’s independent public service was broken …
COLOMBO, April 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka received 707,924 tourists during the first three months of this year, and it was an increase of 17.1 percent compared with the corresponding period of last year, a minister here said on Monday. Tourism Development…
India, China, Germany, France and the UK are the biggest tourist markets for Sri Lanka. Quoting the latest statistics released by the Sri Lankan Tourism Development Authority, he said the country received 233,382 tourist arrivals in March. "It is …
A MUM from Sri Lanka, who arrived in the UK in a shipping container, has transformed an underperforming schoolboy into a model student after he moved in with her. Jack, 15, was regularly late for school after staying up late and partying. Mum Priyanka,…
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M.A. Sumanthiran said yesterday Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran would not be given the chief ministerial candidacy again. He told a news conference that the chief minister had assured the party that he…