question delay in seeking required funding
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday (03) said that if Local Government polls were to be held by March 20, 2023 as scheduled, the Election Commission (EC) should take tangible...
By Rathindra Kuruwita
Over 3,400 elephants have been killed since 2011, the last elephant census in the country, and the official elephant population figures are bogus, Sajeewa Chamikara of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) told The Island...
Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan sustained a bullet injury in his leg after shots were fired at a rally in Gujranwala, yesterday.Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, confirmed to Al Jazeera that the...
British police officers deployed in Qatar for the World Cup will act as “cultural interpreters” between fans and local law enforcement, says Chief Constable Mark Roberts.Roberts, the national lead on football policing, said British police are not there to...
question delay in seeking required funding
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday (03) said that if Local Government polls were to be held by March 20, 2023 as scheduled, the Election Commission (EC) should take tangible...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has, in a letter to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, said that Parliament has not made satisfactory progress in making far-reaching systematic changes that the country needs.According to the Presidential Media Division, the President has said Parliament...
By: M. A. Kaleel
Sri Lanka could go bankrupt again and again in the years to come like Argentina, Dr. Rohan Pethiyagoda, one of Sri Lanka’s foremost biodiversity experts said at the convocation of the Sri Jayewardenepura University.The engineer turned...
Friday 4th November, 2022
Sri Lankan business leaders made a fervent appeal to the Opposition and trade unions ahead of Wednesday’s protest march, but it went unheeded. They requested that the protest be cancelled, given its economic cost. Their concerns...
The present draft tax proposals states that the introduction of With Holding Tax (WHT) would be only an advanced deduction, and the Payees will be subjected to file Tax returns each year and make the balance payments, over and...
Sajaba General Secretary Ranjith Maddumabandara said that a group including a local member of a certain party caused disturbances during yesterday’s protest.
He pointed out that a group of people entered the protest and tried to disrupt it.
The post SJB...