Schoolchildren with 40 percent attendance can sit the GCE AL examination this year, the Minister of Education, Susil Premajayantha told Parliament yesterday (20). “The Examinations Department...
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara said yesterday that fuel quotas would be further increased next month.The decision had been taken after evaluating fuel stocks...
By Laleen Jayamanne (First part of this article appeared in The Island Midweek Review on 12 July 2023) ‘it is not narrative that we should abandon...
Friday 21st July, 2023 Minister of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation Pavithra Wanniarachchi finds herself in an unenviable position. The two sectors under her purview are...
Imagine! This tiny island in the Indian Ocean – ours – has won eight medals in all including three golds, two silver and three bronzes. One...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Mahaweli Authority in Sri Lanka (MASL), is taking...
By Uditha Devapriya Although we had been told we could come and view the murals, there was virtually no one at the Subodharamaya, in Karagampitiya, after...
By Neville Ladduwahetty The Upper Elahera Canal (UEC) was conceived with the objective of transferring water from the Moragakanda Reservoir in the Central Province to existing...
The government has appointed an action committee to work out strategies to re-employ persons impacted by the economic crisis, the President’s Media Division (PMD) says.The committee...
By Hiran H. Senewiratne Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis could have been initially considered a man-made crisis rather than a natural crisis, but now it is...