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Enhancing Bahraini-Sri Lankan cooperation stressed
Wednesday, 03 February 2016 10:37Advisor to HRH Prime Minister, Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, today received Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Commerce, Risad Badhiutheen, in the presence of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister Zayed bin Rashid Al-Zayani.
New vehicles entering roads & beggars!
Wednesday, 03 February 2016 10:29Around 2,000 new vehicles enter the Sri Lankan roads per day, says megapolis and western development minister Patali Champika Ranawaka.
Basil, Namal too, to be summoned
Wednesday, 03 February 2016 08:57Ex-minister Basil Rajapaksa and MP Namal Rajapaksa are to be summoned within the next fortnight for questioning in connection with their having spent Rs. 1,500 million of state money on internal flight travels, said the presidential commission investigating serious financial crime.
Fonseka to ally with Ranil today
Wednesday, 03 February 2016 08:20Key US trade official visits Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 02 February 2016 19:40Assistant US. Trade Representative for South Asia Michael J. Delaney yesterday (01) visited Colombo and met with government, trade, and business officials ahead of the upcoming Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks in Washington.
Mahinda, deputy ministers in discussion at prison
Tuesday, 02 February 2016 19:35A group of government deputy ministers, on a visit to see remanded Yoshitha Rajapaksa, had a discussion with ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa at Welikada Prison today (02), reports say.
Bailed LTTE suspects to be rehabilitated again
Tuesday, 02 February 2016 15:49Fourteen out of the 36 LTTE suspects who were bailed recently are to be rehabilitated yet again, reports say.
Embilipitiya ASP arrested
Tuesday, 02 February 2016 14:56The CID has arrested police ASP Dharmaratne in connection with the death of a 29-year-old person at Embilipitiya.