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By Zahrah Imtiaz The World Bank's Doing Business Index (DBI) 2015 reported that Sri Lanka's ranking for this year had improved to 99 (out of 189) when compared to the rank of 105 last year. In simple terms it means it i ...

By Gagani Weerakoon and Skandha Gunasekara The government yesterday disclosed, in Parliament, that a Sri Lankan ambassador, during last regime, had used the Sri Lankan mission, in a prominent country, to sell weapons. F ...

The Government will appoint five cabinet sub-committees to make suitable recommendations pertaining to specific areas or issues to facilitate the decision-making process of the Cabinet in its endeavour to promote good g ...

The Australian Federal Government has defended sending four men back to Sri Lanka this month after intercepting their boat off the Cocos Islands, describing it as a people smuggling venture. Immigration Minister Peter D ...

Sri Lanka registered a tourism growth of 6.6% with 156,246 visitors in January as per the provincial data with key markets of India at +28.8% with 22,944 visitors, UK at +4% with 13,410 visitors, France +7.9% with 9,09 ...

By Saman Indrajith A sum of Rs. 1,177,434,333 had been spent for publicity projects by the Ministry of Mass Media and Information for the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in 2013 in Colombo, parliament w ...