By Shamindra Ferdinando Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday (27) acknowledged that a proposal to extend the retirement age of Parliament staff, to 61 years, contrary to a government decision to retire public sector workers, at the age of 60, by end of this year, has been held up by State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya’s refusal […]
By Ifham Nizam A daily eight-hour power cut would be inevitable in the New Year if the power tariff was not increased again, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera told the media yesterday. The Minister said the projected loss of the CEB was Rs. 277 billion in 2023 and electricity tariffs will definitely be revised […]
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 28 December 2022 by Department of Meteorology: Several spells of light showers will occur in Northern, North-Central, Eastern and Uva provinces. Showers or thundershowers will occur at a few places in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western provinces and in Galle and Matara districts during the afternoon or night. General […]
President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed the Nuwara Eliya District Secretary and Commissioner to immediately provide 30 acres of abandoned land adjacent to the Ambewela Farm to them and provide the necessary facilities to develop it as grazing land to meet the food requirement of the dairy cows. President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued these instructions on Tuesday (27) […]