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Sri Lankan economy is projected to contract by 4.3 percent in 2023 as demand continues to be subdued, job and income losses intensify, and supply-side constraints adversely affect production, the World Bank announced on Tuesday. Sri Lanka’s heightened fiscal, external, and financial imbalances and its fluid political situation pose significant uncertainty for the country’s economic […]
UNP MP Wajira Abeywardena yesterday (05) appreciated a public statement by Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera that the majority of the government parliamentary group wanted incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe to seek another term. The National List MP said so when The Island sought his response to the SLPP members’ declaration. Appearing on Derana ‘360’ […]
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka during 05th to 15th of April in this year. The nearest areas of Sri Lanka over which the sun is overhead today (06th) are Udugama, Nelluwa, Maduwanwala, Kumbukwewa and Yala at about 12:13 noon. […]
Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Aamaraweera handed over a sapling to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to plant at the Temple trees at the auspicious time of dawning of the New Year under the programme ’Tree Planting at the Auspicious Time’ launched by the Ministry of Agriculture