President Mahinda Rajapaksa will receive visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho at Temple trees today where he will be hosted to lunch, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. The Prime Minister will be in ...
Daily Archives: July 21, 2014
Lanka tops it field in south asia
United Nations eGovernment survey 2014 Saturday, 19th July 2014 Chaminda Perera The latest UN report on Thursday said Sri Lanka topped the South Asian region in terms of using Information Technology (IT) to prov ...
Govt trebled per capita income
Inflation curtailed to a minimum: Sunday, 20th July 2014 Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said the Government has fast-tracked its development program by trebling per capita income and improving the count ...
North and East get Sinhala language training
Saturday, 19th July 2014 The National Language Training Centre has provided the knowledge of Sinhala writing and reading skills for Tamil civil servants and rehabilitated members of the LTTE in Northern and Easte ...
Over Rs. 4,500m allocated for Colombo District development
Saturday, 19th July 2014 Disna Mudalige The Economic Development Ministry has provisioned a development fund of over Rs. 4,500 million to carry out development projects in the Colombo District, Colombo District Secret ...
Hambantota port earns Rs. 750m from bunkering since opening last month
Saturday, 19th July 2014 The Ruhunu Magampura Port in Hambantota has earned Rs. 750 million since it started its fuel bunkering operations on June 22 for ships at the new fuel bunkering terminal. The terminal, which wa ...
UN sidesteps critical issues, refuses to name investigation team
OHCHR’s and Pillay’s positions contradictory Friday, 18th July 2014 by Shamindra Ferdinando The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Wednesday (July 16) said that it wouldn’t release the n ...