The Coconut Research Institute says that the decline in coconut production in the country is expected to persist until April of next year (2025). MORE..
31 Oct 2024 (10:30 AM)
Indonesian authorities investigating graft have arrested a former trade minister turned government critic on suspicion of improperly granting a sugar import permit in 2015 that led to losses of $25 million. MORE..
30 Oct 2024 (7:34 PM)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (PALAMA II project), implemented by Save the Children, focusing on addressing short-term hunger in schools and improving educational outcomes in vulnerable urban areas in Sri Lanka, expanded into Colombo-area schools this month. MORE..
30 Oct 2024 (6:14 PM)
Railway Station Masters have decided to temporarily call off their strike action from midnight today (October 30). MORE..
31 Oct 2024 (12:45 AM)
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his message for the 2024 Diwali Festival, says that Hindu devotees globally celebrate Diwali with deep reverence, marking the victory of light over darkness. MORE..
31 Oct 2024 (9:33 AM)
In yet another drug bust in Tamil Nadu, India s Narcotics Control Bureau seized crystal methamphetamine, also known as Ice , worth 270 million Indian rupees in Chennai. The drugs were meant to be trafficked to Sri Lanka, the investigators said. MORE..
30 Oct 2024 (11:51 PM)