Elders in need worst affected by food inflation
Elders in need are a category worst affected by a skyrocketing rate of food inflation that stood at 94.9 per cent by the end of last month.
Elders in need are a category worst affected by a skyrocketing rate of food inflation that stood at 94.9 per cent by the end of last month.
Estate workers have taken to the streets in protest against the refusal by profit-earning employers to raise their wages adequately.
Sri Lanka’s economy would not have been in this crisis, had the country’s professionals paid their due taxes, said Central Bank (CBSL) governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says he is in receipt of copies of six petitions filed in the Supreme Court with regard to the draft bill on the setting up of a rehabilitation bureau.
The CTID has summoned more students of the Kelaniya and Rajarata universities for questioning.
There is no truth to reports that 10 more cabinet ministers will be sworn-in today (03), said a senior official at the Presidential Secretariat.
A special discussion took place yesterday (02) between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Most Rev. Dr. Harold Anthony Perera, Bishop of Kurunegala and the President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka at the Bishop House in Kurunegala.
India will provide a special financial assistance scheme to support the studies of 100 university students from economically backward families, Indian High Commissioner Gopal Bagley announced.
Australian High Commissioner Paul Stephens called on Foreign Minister Ali Sabry at the Ministry on September 30. The Foreign Minister congratulated the High Commissioner on his appointment as the Head of the Mission to Sri Lanka.
A new task force will be appointed to combat the drug menace, says justice minister Dr. Wijayadasa Rajapakshe.