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LNP - Highest number of Sri Lankans left for foreign employment in 2024

2024-12-31 | Uncategorized

The year 2024 has set a historic record for the highest number of Sri Lankans migrating for work, with 312,836 individuals leaving the country for emp...

LNP - Govt. urged to reduce VAT on salmon

2024-12-31 | Uncategorized

The Canned Fish Manufacturers’ Association of Sri Lanka (CFMASL) has requested the government to reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) imposed on salmon....

LNP - Grade 5 Scholarship Exam: Supreme Court declares State has violated Fundamental Rights of students

2024-12-31 | Crime

The Supreme Court today declared that the Fundamental Rights of the student candidates and petitioners have been violated by the State through the bre...

LNP - Special traffic and parking plan in Colombo on New Year’s eve

2024-12-31 | Uncategorized

Sri Lanka Police has announced a special traffic plan to minimize congestion in Colombo city on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2024. With large crow...

LNP - CMC launches special initiative to tackle waste accumulation

2024-12-31 | Uncategorized

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has launched a special initiative to address the growing waste accumulation in Colombo. CMC Commissioner Palitha N...

LNP - ‘Kiribath’ in jeopardy as rice shortage hits

2024-12-31 | Crime

With the shortage of Nadu and white raw rice varieties in the market, Sri Lankans will find it difficult to prepare traditional milk rice to welcome t...

LNP - Share Covid data, World Health Organization tells China

2024-12-31 | Health

BBC - The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the Covid pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of W...

LNP - New Commanders appointed to Sri Lanka Army and Navy

2024-12-30 | Technology

Major General Lasantha Rodrigo has been appointed as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, while Rear Admiral Kanchana Banagoda was appointed Commander...

LNP - President Dissanayake offers condolences after Jimmy Carter’s death

2024-12-30 | Politics

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has extended his deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of former U.S. President Jimmy Cart...

LNP - General Shavendra Silva bids farewell to active service

2024-12-30 | Crime

General Shavendra Silva, the 8th Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of Sri Lanka, will retire from his position and active service in the Sri Lanka Army on ...