SJB to introduce amendments for EPF members’ benefit - Harsha
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will introduce amendments to ensure dividends to members from the EPF introduced in 1958 by T.B. Illangaratne, said party MP Dr. Harsha de Silva.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will introduce amendments to ensure dividends to members from the EPF introduced in 1958 by T.B. Illangaratne, said party MP Dr. Harsha de Silva.
A mere 31,000 persons out of a total of 500,000 persons registered for personal income tax payments make their due payments, said Mahindananda Aluthgamage, chairman of the sectoral oversight committee on national economic and physical plan.
A Video Bronchoscope and Intubation System donated by Senior Counsel Ajith Perera was handed over to Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe to be given to the Walasmulla base hospital.
Rasmus Paludan burning the Quran during an anti-Islam demonstration in Sweden. Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images
A stock of essential medicines worth USD 39.6 million was donated to the Ministry of Health through US-based Healthline Lanka with support from Catholic Medical Mission Board.
The government has spent Rs. 144 billion on welfare benefits last year and as per the agreements with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Sri Lanka had agreed to spend a minimum of Rs. 187 billion annually on welfare benefits, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said.
SJB lawmaker Eran Wickramaratne said that the public and the private sector workforce who are contributors to the EPF and ETF funds are badly affected by the government’s Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDR) programme, whilst the affluent and their cronies are allowed to get windfall gains within a short period.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe's goal is not to pass the task of reconciliation in Sri Lanka to the next generation but to solve it now, President's Secretary Saman Ekanayake said.
Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" whose dark, provocative novels delved into the enigma of the human condition, has died, a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his native city of Brno said on Wednesday. He was 94.
A girl, aged 21, has died after being given two vaccines for a stomach ailment at Peradeniya Hospital.