BY LANAKTHILAKA
Police media spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa came under fire by the public for making a misleading statement that the police are vested with the authority to take legal action against those who publish and exchange statements that insult...
Gas cylinders continue to explode
Government seals Trincomalee oil tank agreement with India
No fertiliser for Yala season, food shortages on the cards
The dawn of a new year brings with it the hope of new beginnings. For Sri...
• SLSI says no standard for cylinder gas composition
• Momentum for affected families to be compensated
• JVP hints at a government created situation
In the end, it was left to the Court of Appeal to deliver some relief to consumers...
Despite recommendations by the committee appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapakse for quality checks to be carried out on gas cylinders before it is released to the consumer, the explosions have continued.
In one of the latest incidents reported from...
A country wide power outage on Friday exposed the government’s vulnerability. The knock -on effect it had disrupted the national water supply and permeated through to even the functioning of traffic lights and offices which reportedly closed early. The...
Mahindananda: acts like a cat on a hot tin roof.
The government’s decision to make the overnight switch to the use of organic fertiliser has seen the country traverse a seven- month long meandering and convoluted path through the wilderness....
The peoples discontent at the actions of the government’s representatives and its polices have become a routine phenomena.
Yesterday, news broke of how the people of Nahurupola in the Galpatha area tied Harsha Jayasiri, a member of the Panadura...
• The budget did little to alleviate concerns about Sri Lanka’s foreign debt and how it will be addressed
• Despite a breakdown in confidence in the country’s monetary policy, the budget did not shed light on how trust will...
By Lankathilaka
In August 2021, the government allocated 3.8 billion rupees to buy organic fertiliser from local producers to pursue its ambition to transition from the use of synthetic to organic fertiliser.
The return on the investment could be far...
BY LANKATHILAKA
The government will go back on its own ban and import 30, 000 metric tons of sulphate of ammonia which is a synthetic fertiliser, for use in tea cultivation.
The fertiliser is expected in the country in four...
• Agriculture experts predict looming food crisis
• Airlifting nano nitrogen an unprecedented first for Sri Lanka
• Ceylon Fertilizer Company gets order from commercial High Court against Seawin
By Lankathilaka
The protracted fertilizer crisis from the ban on the import of...
President Gotabaya Rajapakse’s directive to the Director General of the Commission toInvestigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption to probe the alleged involvement of businessman Thirukumar Nadesan and his wife,former deputy minister Nirupama Rajapakse, in the Pandora Papers expose has...
