25 April 2023 01:40 pm - 14 - 12332 13 A A A Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha dropping a bomb shell in Parliament regarding container ship MV X-Press Pearl and New Diamond today, revealed that a sum of US dollars 250 million has been credited to the bank account of one Chamara Gunasekera as a bribe
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:01 - - 46 Economic hard times or not, investments in education must continue, but some hard thinking must go into reprioritising and reallocation – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara After nearly 80 years we are in the same situation. Education is geared towards 8% who go on to universities while learning for
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:09 - - 32 “Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor” (Imran Khan) “IMF is really designed to protect creditors, not debtors” (David Graeber – American economic anthropologist) “Argentina and Iraq have been decimated by the same process with
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:10 - - 1420 The circumstances of Fr. Karunaratnam’s killing demonstrates clearly that he was deliberately targeted. The LTTE then accused the LRRP. It was predictably denied. Very few believed this denial that the LRRP was not responsible mainly because of its lethal track record and reputation The nasty, brutish
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:12 - - 33 The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday at its meeting approved plans to obtain new financial and technical support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to aid the on-going recovery from the economic crisis. The Government said parallel to the comprehensive funding facility approved by the International Monetary Fund
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:11 - - 31 The World Bank will extend a $ 150 million grant to strengthen the financial sector of Sri Lanka. The Government said discussions have been held with the World Bank in regard to obtaining loan facilities of the bank for Sri Lanka Deposit Insurance and Liquidity Support Scheme under
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:12 - - 59 1 Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe yesterday said that Indian tourists to Sri Lanka pay in their currency Indian Rupee (INR). He reiterated that making INR a designated currency by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka enables not only trade settlement between the two countries in INR
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