Kusal Mendis notched up his second successive fifty-plus score against Australia to help Sri Lanka overcome a wobbly start and reach 109 for two at lunch on the opening day of the second test at Galle on Thursday.
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.
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.
Award-winning Sri Lankan carrier Srilankan Airlines, yesterday signed on board Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez, as their brand ambassador, Indian media reported.
The government has decided to establish the Hill Country Development Authority for the welfare of over one-million plantation community, which essentially comprises hill-country Tamils.
President Maithripala Sirisena said that if the previous government had governed the country properly its members, curently in the Opposition, would not have had to hoof it until they got blisters on their soles.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that there is a commitment to develop the country, and once it is developed, to engage in multi-party politics but after all of this is done there are attempts to sabotage it as well. Addressing the closing ceremony of the months long Nila Mehewara Mobile Service Programme in Polonnarawa Royal College on Read More
Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said that the government would present the VAT Bill in parliament on August 11 despite the court case pending against the proposed legislation. He said that the delay in presenting the Bill in parliament has hampered the government in reaching its revenue targets.
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