Vietnam today (28) sent home 151 Sri Lankan illegal immigrants who had been caught attempting to go to Canada by the sea route.
Laws will be introduced soon to replace imprisonment with house-arrest on account of minor offences, said justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
The JVP has won 62 per cent of the council seats in the Multipurpose Cooperative Society in Mahawa.
The Election Commission says the local government polls will be held before March 10, with its chairman Nimal Punchihewa saying that preliminary arrangements are already under way.
The many irregularities that have taken place in the Liberal Democratic Party since its takeover by K.S.T. Perera, a businessman crony of SLPP national organizer Basil Rajapaksa, are now coming to light.
The people of the Vanni yesterday (27) launched a campaign to demand that the Army quits their land.
Sri Lankans are among 27 illegal migrants arrested by Romania’s border police after they tried to cross the border illegally into Hungary.
An Indonesian supplier has been awarded a tender to supply 720,000 metric tons of coal from February, said chairman of Lanka Coal Company Shehan Sumanasekara.
The SriLankan Airlines has defaulted on the repayment of a Rs. 71,621 million loan it had obtained from two state banks, says the National Audit Office in a report.
Sri Lanka has been ranked among the 10 countries with the worst food price inflation in a latest report by the World Bank.
