Already the Maha season has faced a 10 per cent drop in yields and the country is running without a food security plan. “We don’t have a food security plan for Sri Lanka at the moment,” Peradeniya ...

Addressing the session, the Chairman of the SEC, Senior Prof. D.B.P.H. Dissabandara highlighted the core professional virtues of an auditor drawing from his own career beginnings, “At the heart of ...

On the international front, the National People’s Power (NPP) government is trying hard to walk the tightrope of neutrality and avoid getting drawn into any fresh controversy over the fate of the ...

JXG, the parent company of the Janashakthi Group, is bullish on expansions across diversified financial services while marking its footprint across other countries. An Initial Public Offering (IPO) ...

Ceylon Tea is facing tough times as prices for the product is dropping amidst a 10-15 per cent cost escalation. Cost of production of world renowned Ceylon Tea has increased to around Rs.1400 per kilo ...

Aside from Minister Rambukwella, the former Secretary to the Ministry of Health, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), and the former ...

And, what’s more, to make matters doubly worse, 20 per cent of the Gulf’s oil outflow to the world has to pass through a 100-mile-long, 60-mile-at-its-widest waterway.

Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) General Secretary Joseph Stalin expressed dismay at the decision, noting that the meeting was held on March 15, which was a Sunday. “How can the education authorities call ...

Nine exceptional students from the Japanese Unit of the Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya, have received scholarships to pursue their studies in Japan. This achievement reflects ...

School students view a photo exhibition organised by the cultural section of the Iranian Embassy in Colombo. On display at the exhibition were the photographs of the students killed in the US-Israeli ...

The war, now into its fifth week, has most countries calling Tehran for help – not the USA – to release the stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz jugular for ‘non-hostile vessels’ to pass through.

Forbes & Walker, one of Sri Lanka’s oldest and most influential tea brokers and a custodian of Ceylon Tea since 1881, has opened its private tasting rooms in Colombo to the public for the first time ...