Delhi frets over chinese portal
The nagging question of how Sri Lanka would repay the USD 1.5 billion loan it had taken from China to build the non-performing Hambantota harbour...
Sri Lanka needs to increase fiscal revenue
The World Bank’s latest Sri Lanka Development Update – a half-yearly report on the Sri Lankan economy and its prospects – finds that monetary and...
Sri Lanka joins Open Government Partnership
Sri Lanka has become South Asia's first member of the Open Government Partnership as it formally joined the 70-nation Open Government Partnership (OGP) following an...
Uber drivers deserve workers’ rights
Uber drivers are not self-employed and should be paid the “national living wage”, a UK employment court has ruled in a landmark case which could...
Trying to keep the identity of the Hindus strong
One of the main organizers of the newly established Hindu organization Sivan Senai, Maravanpulavu K. Satchithananthan, when asked about rumours that the organization is being...
The biggest challenge is militarisation ?
The NGO, Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) published a 50 page report titled 'Under the Military's Shadow', reviewing the...
EU to review reconciliation process
A delegation of the European Parliament is to visit Sri Lanka to discuss national reconciliation and greater women’s empowerment. The EU office in Colombo said...
Incentives, Lower Taxes to boost Investment
Sri Lanka will introduce concessions on investments and a lower tax regime in its next budget to boost faltering investment, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told...
Hambantota port to Chinese firm
Sri Lanka will sell to a Chinese company 80 percent of a $1.5-billion port in its south, where China has also been offered an investment...
COPE recommends legal action
The Sri Lankan parliament’s Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) on Friday recommended legal action against former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran and other officials for...
TCSF calls for a accountability and justice
The Tamil Civil Society Forum condemned the shooting of two Tamil students of the Jaffna University last Thursday. "The killings that took place now, have...
Shares edge up in dull trade ahead of budget
Sri Lankan shares ended slightly firmer on Thursday, hovering near a 12-week closing low hit earlier in the week, in thin trade as investors awaited...
Rs 4bn for Golden Key depositors
Sri Lanka’s cabinet has approved a proposal to release an advance of 4.05 billion rupees to the Central Bank in order to pay the eligible...
Sprawling tea estates and sanctuaries
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India, China intelligence cooperation led to arrest of Pakistani smuggler
Intelligence sharing and cooperation between India, China and Sri Lanka led to the arrest of a Pakistani currency smuggler, Faiz Muhammad, in China's Guangzhou province...