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All Share Price Index crosses 6500 mark
The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange crossed the 6,500 mark a short while ago. The index has gone up by over 30% since July 2012, according o market ...
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Man held with 14 illegal firearms
Navagattegama Police have arrested a suspect along with 14 illegal locally manufactured firearms. The arrest was made at around 8.30pm last night after police received information that the suspect, a resident of Kuruketiyawa in Navagattegama, uses the weapons to frequently hunt wild animals. Navagattegama Police are conducting investigations to uncover who had manufactured all the fire ...
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Devolution Sri Lankas defence and security
by Dr Dayan Jayatilleka ( May 23, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Prof G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’, The Island Midweek Review, May 22-23, 2013) to my article in The Island of 15th May 2013, argues that the distribution of ethnicity renders the district rather than the province the more suitable unit of devolution if ...
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Low turnout in Sri Lankan strike reflects no confidence in the unions and opposition
Despite growing opposition among workers to President Mahinda Rajapakse's assault on living standards and democratic rights, there was only limited participation in a one-day general strike on Tuesday. The low turnout expressed the deep distrust among broad layers of workers in the trade unions and official opposition parties, which called the strike action.The stoppage was limited to a ...
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Sri Lankan smallholders abandon tea for cinnamon
Sri Lankan tea smallholders, who account for nearly 70 per cent of Sri Lanka's tea production, said they wanted to shift to planting cinnamon as they were incurring huge losses due to the non-availability of fertilizer and the recent wage hike. Several tea smallholders have already made the shift. Two members of the Tea Factory Owners' Association said that their fertilizer go-downs ...
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Kelaniya PS Chairman assaulted
The Chairman of the Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha, Prasanna Ranaweera has been admitted to the Kiribathgoda Hospital following an alleged assault which took place this morning, Ada Derana reporter ...
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Sri Lanka pile up 425 India 280
Thilan Samaraweera made an unbeaten 137 as Sri Lanka piled up 425 in their first innings against India on the second day of the third cricket Test here ...
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UN intervenes in land issue in Sri Lanka
Head of the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Agnes Asekenye-Oonyu, on Tuesday flew to Palaly, where she discussed the issue with Security Forces Commander, Jaffna, Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe. Asekenye-Oonyu was accompanied by the deputy head of the mission, Mark Prasopa-Plaizier. Authoritative sources ...
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Sri Lankans held in Europe human smuggling raids
(2 mins ago) Europol said 18 people, mostly Sri Lankans, were arrested in joint police raids in Britain and France on suspicion of being part of a human trafficking ring that smuggled South Asian immigrants into Britain. ';During the joint operation, 11 suspects were arrested in the UK and seven in France. All persons arrested, except [for] one Dutch national, were of Sri Lankan ...
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Sri Lanka sees major tourism industry investment
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, especially the cruising scene, is getting back on its feet following the war, with significant interest being shown by major cruise lines wanting to schedule Sri Lankan ports on Indian Ocean Cruises, while the local yachting scene is seeing exciting growth and a local cruise industry may be emerging from infancy.
Sri Lanka, following the long and devastating civil war, which lasted around two and a half decades, is now making renewed attempts to redevelop its tourist industry. The industry is extremely import to the economy of Sri Lanka and is a vital part of the country’s access to foreign currency reserves, but saw marked declines in tourist arrivals during periods in which the ongoing civil war was perceived to be increasing in intensity and violence. Read more
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