News Room : No govt. has followed national disaster guidelines for past 18 yrs – The Island
By Saman Indrajith Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday (25).The Minister said so, making a statement on the status of litigation on the X-Press Pearl disaster and a report on the disaster by the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. Commenting...
News Room : Some plastics used in SL hard to recycle – The Island
By Saman Indrajith Successive governments had not followed national disaster guidelines formulated after the 2004 tsunami disaster, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday (25).The Minister said so, making a statement on the status of litigation on the X-Press Pearl disaster and a report on the disaster by the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. Commenting...
News Room : Trump Surrenders
Former President Donald Trump turned himself in on Thursday at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, marking the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges. Trump was booked as inmate No. P01135809 and became the first former president with a mug shot....
News Room : Eight thousand more teachers to be recruited for government schools – State Minister – The Island
The United Kingdom has made medical history with doctors carrying out the country’s first womb transplant. Surgeons at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford successfully transplanted a sister’s womb to her 34-year-old sibling in an operation that lasted nine hours and 20 minutes on Sunday, according to local media reports. The operation to remove the donor’s womb lasted more than eight hours....
News Room : Suspension of LNG project irks Opp. – The Island
Herath asks whether govt. wants to pave the way for new player By Shamindra Ferdinando The Cabinet-approved national energy policy related to the development of natural gas infrastructure has been suspended by the government following representations made by Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera. Dissident SLPP MP Prof. Charitha Herath on Tuesday (22) said that the Cabinet-of-Ministers, headed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe,...
News Room : Cambodian parliamentarians elect Hun Sen’s son, Hun Manet, as new PM
Cambodia’s national assembly has officially elected the eldest son of outgoing premier Hun Sen to be the country’s new prime minister, a transition of power likened by some to a Southeast Asian version of North Korea’s dynastic leadership. Hun Manet, 45, a four-star general in Cambodia’s military, was elected by all 123 members of Cambodia’s lower house of parliament who...
News Room : Trump says he will be arrested on Thursday in Georgia election case – The Island
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was swiftly arrested, taken to court and jailed after he landed back home in Thailand after 15 years in self-imposed exile. Thaksin, who made his fortune in the telecommunications business, boarded a private plane in Singapore and landed at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport shortly after 9am (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday, according to Thailand’s Khaosod...
News Room : Orders go out not to ignore Indian intelligence warnings – The Island
Rebel group questions national security review By Shamindra Ferdinando Having elected UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the President, in July last year, the SLPP couldn’t keep silent as the UNP leader took decisions that would have far reaching implications, Prof. G. L. Peiris warned yesterday (21). Addressing the media at the rebel SLPP group’s Nawala Office, Prof. Peiris asked the ruling SLPP parliamentary group...
News Room : Onions and teary reality
Thuesday 22nd August, 2023 No sooner had the Indian government announced its decision to impose a 40% tax on onion exports to overcome a shortfall in the domestic supply than Sri Lankan traders jacked up onion prices exponentially. They would not have reacted so swiftly to a drop in onion prices in the international market. Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera is...
Native Flour Millers dealing with unprecedented disaster amidst Large import of Dumped Flour
Meals safety has been a difficult matter confronted by many countries, each developed and creating alike across the globe. With many consultants predicting that Meals to be one of many predominant commodities that might run scarce inside the subsequent couple of years, it has evidently grow to be extra necessary that nations help and nurture home producers and suppliers,...