News Room : Showers in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and North-western provinces and in Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts – The Island
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 11 September 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Showers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and North-western provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Mannar, Vavuniya and Anuradhapura districts. Fairly heavy showers about 50mm are likely at some places in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Puttalam, Galle and Matara districts. Showers or...
News Room : Waiver of tariffs on electric vehicles for assembling companies investing USD 50 mn
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Cabinet of ministers had approved a proposal by the President to remove all tariffs on electric vehicles for companies that had signed or would enter into agreements with the BOI to invest at least 50 million US dollars on assembling electric vehicles and plug – in hybrid electric vehicles, cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena told reporters on...
News Room : SL joins American Georgia State University’s global Cosmic Ray Muon Detector network – The Island
Sri Lanka became the very first country (outside the USA) to deploy Georgia State University’s (GSU) Cosmic Ray Muon Detector. Sri Lanka now becomes GSU’s first international member as a part of its ongoing deployment plan for a global muon detector network and hosts a detector each at two strategic locations – Badulla, hosted at the University of Uva Wellassa...
News Room : How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine
The G20 joint declaration in Delhi is being described as a significant diplomatic win for India. The agreement of a joint statement looked almost impossible a few days ago, given how sharply divided the group was over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the end, we had a declaration that garnered unanimous support from all G20 member nations, without a single dissenting...
News Room : “Easter Commission says 15,000 knew of impending attack,” says Cardinal
By Norman Palihawadane Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith says that even though many including the Church authorities were unaware of imminent terror attacks on Easter Sunday 2019, almost 15,000 other persons had prior knowledge of it according to the reports of the Special Presidential Commission. Addressing Holy Mass celebrating the blessing of marble structures of the 12 apostles gifted by people...
News Room : At least 49 civilians reported dead in attack on river boat in Mali – The Island
US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pledged to deepen ties between their two countries, as the leaders held direct talks ahead of a Group of 20 summit in New Delhi at the weekend. In a joint statement on Friday, shortly after Biden landed in the Indian capital, the US and India reaffirmed their support for...
News Room : Cabinet approves proposal to amend Motor Traffic Act to allow electric trishaws
The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday approved a proposal presented by the Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardana to amend the existing provisions of the Motor Traffic Act to provide for the registration of electric three-wheelers. Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena told reporters on Tuesday that electrically charged batteries were used to manufacture electric three-wheelers and the tare weight of...
News Room : Sun directly overhead Maggona, Badureliya , Godakawela , Kitulkote and Meegahaveraliya at about 12.09 noon today (06)
On the apparent southward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka during 28th of August to 07th of September in this year. The nearest towns of Sri Lanka over which the sun is overhead today (06th) are Maggona, Badureliya , Godakawela , Kitulkote and Meegahaveraliya about 12.09 noon.
News Room : Showers above 50mm are likely in the Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Galle, Matara and Nuwara Eliya districts – The Island
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 05 September 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Central and North-western provinces. Fairly heavy showers above 50mm are likely at some places in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Galle, Matara and Nuwara Eliya districts. A few showers are likely in Jaffna,...
News Room : Putin, Erdogan discuss Black Sea grain deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan have said they discussed ways to revive the Black Sea Grain deal which Moscow quit in July. Putin said that Russia was ready to revive the grain export deal “as soon” as restrictions on its own exports were lifted. (Aljazeera)