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By Aanya Vipulasena
Plans to hand over WCT to India
Chairman of the Independent Port Services Trade Union, (PSTU) Lal Bangamuwage, said that they do not oppose the proposal to hand over the West Container Terminal (WCT) to India if it is favourable to Sri Lanka.
Bangamuwage said they have agreed to the proposal of handing over the WCT as it complies with an agreement endorsed between the two nations.
“But Sri Lanka has to...
‘Yahapalanayé Idiri Maga’ or (the future of Yahapalanaya), a citizen’s agenda for the 2019 Presidential Election, was launched at the Orchid conference hall at the BMICH on Friday (23). The participants- a cross section of clergy, politicians, civil society groups, are disgruntled by the below- par performance of the leaders they fought to bring to power in 2015.
The mood...
I lost our house,Your friends became foes,I lost you too,This was my fate.Our children question me now,‘Where is our father?’ They ask,My heart aches in pain,What can I tell them?
This is a rough translation of the love song S. H. Nandaseeli, from Hambanthota, wrote and sang in Sinhala to the tune of a popular Sri Lankan ballad on Thursday - Valentine’s Day. She was one...
The hospitality sector has been rocked by the Excise Department’s raid last Wednesday (6) afternoon of the Colombo-7 residence of a French restaurateur, and the seizure of several hundred bottles of foreign alcoholic beverages alleged to have been illegally stored there.Further investigations have revealed that the restaurateur, Jean-Charles Toussaint, had been deported...
By Aanya Vipulasena
Sri Lanka launched the much-anticipated Covishield vaccination program in six hospitals in the Western Province on Friday (29)....
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chief Justice Jayantha C. Jayasuriya PC will lay the foundation stone for the House of...
Those who have left the UNP to launch other parties never shared the vision of the parent party. Those who have been with the UNP...
The Central Bank will soon issue directions for banks to follow the market lending rates, Governor, Central Bank (CB), Dr....
Gitanjali Chakravarthy Haaland can vividly remember how her grandmother took her one special day to the then Hotel Lanka Oberoi....
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to release the report published by the Cabinet Committee appointed by President Maithripala...
A French restaurateur who had over Rs 2 million worth of foreign alcoholic beverages at his residence when it was raided earlier...
Former Rivira Editor Upali Tennakoon who was assaulted by a group in Gampaha in January 2009, said in a Facebook post that he ‘...