News Room : SLPP rebels ask EC to set process in motion forthwith – The Island
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 measures to set the process in motion.The former Foreign Minister Prof. Peiris said that the EC should ask for required...
News Room : Environmentalists: All official statistics on elephants bogus
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 yesterday.Between 2002 and 2022, there were 4,954 elephant and 1,602 human deaths due to the human-elephant conflict.He said that the...
News Room : Imran Khan injured in shooting
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 politician was shot in the leg but was not in danger. He was taken to a hospital in Lahore.Khan was...
News Room : Unpredictable Pakistan stun Proteas – The Island
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 tell fans how to behave. “The focus is to try and prevent unfortunate misunderstandings where fans inadvertently cause offence,” he said. The...
News Room : About 10,909 bowser loads of diesel required for Maha cultivation season – The Island
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 measures to set the process in motion.The former Foreign Minister Prof. Peiris said that the EC should ask for required...
News Room : Prez asks Parliament to get its act together
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 is responsible for the establishment of a National Assembly, the appointment of the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Economic...
News Room : Dr. Pethiyagoda blames Lanka’s woes on rulers, bureaucrats not using common sense – The Island
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 biodiversity expert told the students that they were graduating at the most difficult time in Sri Lanka’s post-Independence history. “The fact...
News Room : Protests and economy
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 should be appreciated, and their views taken on board because the task of reviving the economy will be unattainable without...
News Room : WHT without waste and worry
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 above the WHT percentage, if they are liable to do so. In effect, all those whose income will be more...
News Room : SJB General Secretary reveals the secret story of the conspiracy that caused chaos in yesterday’s protest! They did the work by sneaking in a group including...
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 General Secretary reveals the secret story of the conspiracy that caused chaos in yesterday’s protest! They did the work by...