By Akitha Pereras The government had acted irresponsibly by increasing the number of ministers while country was undergoing an unprecedented economic crisis, Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) national organizer Tissa Attanayake said, addressing the media in Colombo.Attanayake said that for the first time the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was looking into economic crimes in […]
By A.J.A. Abeynayaka Damage caused to the furniture alone of the President’s House in Colombo on 09 July amounted to Rs 25 million, the CID yesterday informed the Colombo Fort Magistrate.They have yet to calculate the damage caused to the President’s House, the CID said.The Colombo District Secretary was in charge of the evaluation, it […]
By Ifham Nizam Elephant experts and Wildlife Department officials yesterday took exception to a statement made by Minister of Agriculture, Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation Mahinda Amaraweera’s on the elephant population statistics here. The ministry quoting the Department said that Sri Lanka’s wild elephant population had topped 7,000. Department officials however stressed that they believed […]
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BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, September 15: Nearly half of Darjeeling’s tea estates in India’s West Bengal state, numbering around 35-40, are up for sale as planters are unable to run the operations smoothly in the absence of international buyers from Europe and Japan who used to buy good volumes of […]