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Sri Lanka has decided to increase the fuel quota allocated for Three-Wheelers. The President's Media Division said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has approved to double the fuel qouta for three-wheelers. The first stage will be from the Western Province and...

The All Ceylon Tourism Service Professionals Association has stated that due to the financial companies providing billions of loans to parliamentarians at low interest rates, no member of parliament is talking about the illegal activities of these leasing-finance companies. At...

Journalist Dhananjaya Narangbedda was summoned before the Criminal Investigation Department on Wednesday. Although he was informed to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department at 10.30 am on Wednesday, it is said that the reason why he was summoned has not...

Now that the former chancellor’s two leadership rivals have pulled out, Conservative members will not have a say in the contest Rishi Sunak has become the new Conservative leader and will be prime minister after Penny Mordaunt followed Boris Johnson in withdrawing...

Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the opposition, said that in order to save the country from the current crisis, the people are demanding a change in the system, not giving personal bounties according to their own will, and under...

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska spoke at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Saturday about the horrors faced by Ukrainians amid the Russian invasion and her hope for the future. "We are fighting for our lives," she told the audience at...

The Chinese Communist Party's congress concluded on Sunday with the set-piece confirmation of Xi Jinping's historic third five-year term in charge. The spotlight was also on the man named as his new second-in-command, Li Qiang. A loyalist to Mr Xi,...

Sri Lanka’s manufacturing sector contracted significantly in September with the decline of people’s purchasing power meanwhile services sector has marginally expanded, according to a Purchasing Managers’ Index compiled by the central bank. The manufacturing PMI has remained below 50 consecutively...

Under the current economic situation, if salary increase is not possible, the government employees request to be given an interim allowance. The Union of Public Service Unions has decided to present its demand to the government along with a petition...

Nethmi Ahimsa won the 5th place in the world championship wrestling tournament held in Spain. Having won that victory, she came to Ceylon this morning.