News Room : SL looking at mechanical tea harvesting to combat labour scarcity – The Island
ECONOMYNEXT —Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will engage constructively in sincere attempts at resolving the ethnic issue, legislator M A Sumanthiran said responding to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s overtures to the opposition, while also suggesting that the TNA was open to a federal solution. “We will engage constructively in every sincere attempt as we have always done but will not allow any farcical...
News Room : Counterfeit ‘foolproof’ liquor bottle stickers printed says MP – The Island
ECONOMYNEXT —Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will engage constructively in sincere attempts at resolving the ethnic issue, legislator M A Sumanthiran said responding to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s overtures to the opposition, while also suggesting that the TNA was open to a federal solution. “We will engage constructively in every sincere attempt as we have always done but will not allow any farcical...
News Room : Themed Party Nights at Cinnamon Red Colombo – The Island
ECONOMYNEXT —Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will engage constructively in sincere attempts at resolving the ethnic issue, legislator M A Sumanthiran said responding to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s overtures to the opposition, while also suggesting that the TNA was open to a federal solution. “We will engage constructively in every sincere attempt as we have always done but will not allow any farcical...
News Room : Sabry denies China caused SL debt crisis – The Island
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, has dismissed assertions that China caused the current economic crisis here.The Minister made Sri Lanka’s position clear in an interview with WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal. Asked whether Minister Sabry believed that the current economic crisis is due to China, its policy of debt crisis, the Minister has said: No, I don’t agree with...
News Room : Electricity users threaten legal action if power tariffs hiked again unilaterally by Minister – The Island
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, has dismissed assertions that China caused the current economic crisis here.The Minister made Sri Lanka’s position clear in an interview with WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal. Asked whether Minister Sabry believed that the current economic crisis is due to China, its policy of debt crisis, the Minister has said: No, I don’t agree with...
News Room : Baglay reiterates India’s commitment in line with ‘Neighbourhood First Policy’ – The Island
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, has dismissed assertions that China caused the current economic crisis here.The Minister made Sri Lanka’s position clear in an interview with WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal. Asked whether Minister Sabry believed that the current economic crisis is due to China, its policy of debt crisis, the Minister has said: No, I don’t agree with...
News Room : Richarlison spearheads Brazil’s World Cup charge – The Island
Richarlison may have to justify his place as Brazil’s number nine to outsiders but he used his debut on the World Cup stage to demonstrate exactly why coach Tite is unswerving in his admiration. Tottenham’s striker is up against formidable competition for his place in the team in Qatar from the likes of Arsenal’s Gabriel Jesus and Rodrygo of...
News Room : Minister says electricity tariff hikes inevitable in face of mounting losses – The Island
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, has dismissed assertions that China caused the current economic crisis here.The Minister made Sri Lanka’s position clear in an interview with WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal. Asked whether Minister Sabry believed that the current economic crisis is due to China, its policy of debt crisis, the Minister has said: No, I don’t agree with...
News Room : ‘Govt. keen to implement 13 A’
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, has declared that the government was keen to implement the 13th Amendment. The Minister said so in response to Sidhant Sibal’s query on behalf of the WION. Sibal quoted the Minister as having said: “Right now actually we all want provincial council elections, but it cannot be held now because of a particular Bill...
News Room : A question of legitimacy
Saturday 26th November, 2022 Dissident SLPP MP and former Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana has said something noteworthy during the ongoing budget debate. He has argued that President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who succeeded President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, does not have a popular mandate to govern the country and therefore should not make crucial policy decisions on national security, etc. He has offered to...