The presidential candidate of the Sarvajana Balaya alliance, entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera says that all the other three main candidates contesting the upcoming presidential election have presented the same programme. MORE..
12 Sep 2024 (6:38 PM)
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist rebels, died on Wednesday. He was aged 86. MORE..
12 Sep 2024 (10:04 AM)
The Presidential Candidate of the National People s Power (NPP), Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that steps will be taken under his government to expand the country s economy. MORE..
12 Sep 2024 (1:22 PM)
Sri Lanka s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Wednesday signed a bill to raise the monthly minimum wage by 12.5 per cent, days ahead of the island nation s presidential elections. MORE..
12 Sep 2024 (1:07 PM)
Six passengers including an Indian national have been arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) with undeclared goods including 159 bottles of foreign liquor and a haul of foreign cigarettes. MORE..
12 Sep 2024 (3:25 PM)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has slammed the sudden promises from presidential candidates Sajith Premadasa and Anura Kumara Dissanayake about reducing fertilizer prices and cutting farmers loans, questioning as to where they were when farmers were struggling without access to fertilizers. MORE..
12 Sep 2024 (5:22 PM)