Sri Lanka Police would be transformed in the coming years as it being the need of the time to salute innocent and poor people of the country with due dignity, but not to politicians or the rich, Law and Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayake said on Tuesday.
New Resident Coordinator for the United Nations and Resident Representative for UNDP in Sri Lanka Una McCauley presented her credentials to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera on Wednesday.
The UNP had recruited 800,000 new party members within one month of the launch of its project to increase its membership by three million new members, party sources said.
Twenty-two people are feared killed as the two state transport buses in which they were travelling were washed away when a bridge linking Mahad and Poladpur on the Mumbai-Goa highway in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in Konkan collapsed in heavy rain in the early hours of Wednesday. Those feared killed include 18 passengers, two drivers and Read More
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The government said that a building complex to international standards to store the military’s ammunition and explosives which was currently kept in various places in the country would be constructed in Anuradhapura.
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To face the challenge faced by the country in having the largest aging population in South Asia, the Prime Minister’ office yesterday announced the launching of a pilot project by the National Secretariat for Elders appointed by him to train Elder Care Assistants, according to a curriculum developed by it.
The government has to balance policy-led growth and the very existence of the economically vulnerable people of the country through the welfare safety net, President Maithripala Sirisena said on Tuesday addressing the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2016 at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo. “We have to pursue right economic policies over a considerable period of time Read More
Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said that there would be no unnecessary public expenditure to further grow the pile of national debt. Addressing the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2016 at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo on Tuesday, the minister said: “Fiscal consolidation is the government’s prime concern. We recognize it as a must. We have had Read More
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