COLOMBO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s cabinet on Tuesday unanimously decided to withdraw two gazette notifications which would enable women to buy alcohol and work in shops selling or manufacturing alcohol beverages, and extending the business hours of liquor shops across the island, …
At least 16 Indian fishermen have been arrested and their four fishing trawlers seized for allegedly fishing in Sri Lanka’s territorial waters near Katchatheevu islet, the Sri Lankan Navy said on Tuesday in Colombo. The fast gun boats and the fast attack craft, attached to the Northern Naval Command of the …
Shares in Hatton National Bank Plc fell 1.2 percent, Commercial Bank of Ceylon Plc dropped 1.1 percent, and Nestle Lanka Plc slipped 1.1 percent. Sri Lanka’s stock, bond, and foreign exchange markets were closed on Monday for a holiday. ($1 = 153.8500 Sri Lankan rupees) (Reporting by Ranga …
Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has clarified that President Maithripala Sirisena can stay in office only for five years, a week after he sought its opinion on whether he can serve a six-year term. “The Supreme Court has conveyed the opinion that the President’s term of office is five years,” a statement from the …
Sri Lanka have been yo-yoing about how to tackle their discriminatory ban on women buying alcohol, and they seem to have settled on the wrong decision. On Wenesday 10 January, Sri Lanka’s finance minister, Mangala Samaraweera, tweeted that the country was overturning it’s 1979 law prohibiting …
Accordingly, the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera removing the ban on females from buying alcohol and working at establishments that produce or sell alcohol and the revision of the business hours of all license…
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met Sri Lankan Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera and discussed issues of … Sri Lanka is one of the major recipients of development credit given by India, with total commitment of around USD …
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met Sri Lankan Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera and discussed issues of … Sri Lanka is one of the major recipients of development credit given by India, with total commitment o…
Jan 13, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said he will appoint a commission next week to probe the alleged fraud and corruption taken place in Sri Lanka’s national carrier SriLankan Airlines and the now nonoperational budget carrier Mihin Lanka. President Sirisena made this …
A decision was made during the weekly cabinet meeting to collect visa charges in US dollars instead of Sri Lankan Rupees. The proposal to regularise and update the present method of visa issuing forwarded by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wayamba De…