Sri Lanka tea industry sources say that the prevailing severe drought has affected the tea cultivation and production, industry news sources said. Tea cultivating districts of Ratnapura, K [ ... ]

The Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) has formed a platform consisting of university lecturers, intellectuals, students and trade unions to safeguard the free education system in th [ ... ]

The Lawyers for Democracy (LFD) an organisation that comprises legal practitioners throughout the country today said that the Government and its agents had disregarded the people’s funda [ ... ]

PEO TV’s exceptional three month HBO promotion saw customers win big prizes this year. The promotion was launched on the 1st of October 2011 with a two week free preview of the HBO PAK which  [ ... ]

Seeking Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s intervention for their immediate release, 29 Sri Lankan Tamil inmates now lodged in Chengalpet Special Detention Camp have began their indefinite  [ ... ]

  ONGC and Cairn (Rajasthan Joint Venture) have commenced production from the Bhagyam Field in Rajasthan. Bhagyam is the second largest of 25 discoveries made so far by Cairn in the Barmer Bas [ ... ]

    Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan says he agrees with the Tamil National Alliance regarding its stance on formulating a political solution for the T [ ... ]

The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) plans to launch a program to draw the medical doctors who have left country for overseas opportunities, the newly elected president of the Association  [ ... ]

Sri Lankan Government expects that Palestine’s application for admission to full membership in the United Nations will receive sympathetic consideration, said our news sources.    [ ... ]

Security officers at the Mahara prison have stopped overtime work as they were not paid there overtime dues for the past four months, our news sources said. The officers had not been paid  [ ... ]

Two hundred thousand (200,000) kilogrammes of tea which are not suitable for human consumption have been confiscated from the Pethiyagoda area in Kelaniy, our news sources said.
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  A Thai woman who pleaded guilty to charges of assisting in the operation of a brothel at R.A. de Mel Mawatha in Kollupitiya was ordered to pay a fine of Rs [ ... ]

Lack of transparency has resulted in the loss of faith in Lankan examinations process, charged the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA), our news sources said.    [ ... ]

Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka filed a petition in the Supreme Court Thursday, against the verdict delivered by the Court of Appeal on the 16th of December, affirming the decision of the [ ... ]

Nine more Officers in Charge of Police stations have been transferred with immediate effect. The announcement by the Police head office states the transfers were carried out due to service req [ ... ]

The bilateral trade between Sri Lanka and India last year surged by over 70 percent and reached an estimated all-time high of US$ 5 billion, the High Commissioner of India Ashok Kantha has sai [ ... ]

United National Party (UNP) has accused the government of using the monies from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), country's major retirement fund for the employees in the corporate and priva [ ... ]

The country is beginning to suffer as a result of the political decision to take over private entities under the hurriedly-passed expropriation act, with most entrepreneurs turning their back  [ ... ]