State Minister of Technology Kanaka Herath stated that Sri Lanka is in need of an Online Safety Act to regulate social media.
No one brings the victory and benefits covered with roses to your doorstep even for a small things it can be achieved only with scarification, hands to gather, sometimes victory/achievement take blood and lives as bribery.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday expressed confidence in Sri Lanka’s female population supporting the government’s reform programme where efforts are underway to rebuild the collapsed economy.
Sri Lanka is negotiating with India to extend a $1 billon credit line by a few months, two sources told Reuters.
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), the garment industry’s largest alliance of labour unions and non-governmental organisations, called on major brands sourcing apparel from Sri Lanka to take responsibility for their workers’ survival in the wake of severe economic crisis in the country.
Leaders in Iran announced several arrests amid an ongoing wave of school poisonings. Tehran's Interior Ministry has accused some of those arrested of having ties to "foreign-based dissident media."
Striking unions blocked fuel deliveries from refineries across France. Unions have been at loggerheads with Macron's administration over a controversial reform to France's pension system.
State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya has met with Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi on the sidelines of the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) which kicked off in Doha on Sunday.
Major train services in remote areas are now in the process of being cancelled for the first time in history, Locomotive Engineering Operators' Union Chairman K. A. U. Konthasinghe said.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on Monday spoke with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and expressed support for Sri Lanka’s steps towards an IMF-supported programme to advance economic reform and achieve a strong and durable recovery.
The Central Bank said it was overserving a trend where large amounts of foreign currency, which had been stashed away, now being released, further increasing the supply of dollars to the market and thereby strengthening the rupee.
Sri Lanka’s central bank has raised interest rates to tackle inflation and said it would relax its currency band to move towards a market-determined exchange rate as it seeks to secure a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen on Sunday said they “fiercely oppose” the government’s plan to issue licenses to Indian fishermen to enter Sri Lankan waters, terming the move a “serious setback” to their nearly 15-year-long struggle.
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has taken measures to inform the higher management of the CEB regarding its restructuring programme, and to obtain their suggestions.