Category: General Services

Jan 25 (LBO) – The University Grants Commission is talking to top US colleges for scholarships to send local students abroad for post graduate studies.Representatives of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) are in Colombo to draw up plans on how students enrolled at local universities can transfer to its College in the United States. […]

Sri Lankan marketers say consumers’ need to be enticed even when at the supermarket shelves, as a new initiative that will see television screens spread strategically around the shopping isles gets underway.Sri Lankan marketers say consumers’ need to be enticed even when at the supermarket shelves, as a new initiative that will see television screens […]

Reporters Without Borders – an international group promoting media freedom condemned Tuesday’s killing of a Sri Lankan Tamil journalist. Reporters Without Borders – an international group promoting media freedom condemned Tuesday’s killing of a Sri Lankan Tamil journalist. Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan, working for the Tamil-language daily Sudar Oli, was gunned down in Trincomalee after covering abuses […]

Jan 23 (LBO) -Nurses in Sri Lanka’s public health service are threatening trade union action, over a salary increase anomaly.Jan 23 (LBO) -Nurses in Sri Lanka’s public health service are threatening trade union action, over a salary increase anomaly. Nurses’ trade unions in government hospitals say salary increases for nurses are well below increase given […]

NGOs charged that lack of coordination by one central agency was slowing down reconstruction after the tsunami. NGOs charged that lack of coordination by one central agency was slowing down reconstruction after the tsunami. Although government set up TAFREN which is now called RADA to be the main body helping reconstruction it does not maintain […]

Sri Lanka’s diversified John Keells Holdings Ltd.will push ahead with planned investments in leisure and property this year, but the group’s financial outlook may be impacted by progress in the country’s peace process, the company’s head of corporate finance and strategy said. Sri Lanka’s diversified John Keells Holdings Ltd. will push ahead with planned investments […]

Sri Lanka has been slow to track illegal migration, though the island remains a hotbed for human trafficking, the Foreign Employment Bureau said.Sri Lanka has been slow to track illegal migration, though the island remains a hotbed for human trafficking, the Foreign Employment Bureau said. “Under the Foreign Employment Act anyone migrating to work, must […]

Jan. 16 (LBO) — Domestic gas supplier Laugfs says it will consider restricting imports, if global prices cross the US$ 600 mark in February and the government forbids a price increase, a top official said Monday.Jan. 16 (LBO) — Domestic gas supplier Laugfs says it will consider restricting imports, if global prices cross the US$ […]

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Employment Bureau say its will set up a migrant pension scheme by April 2006. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Employment Bureau say its will set up a migrant pension scheme by April 2006. “The migrant pension scheme will be finalised in three months time,” said Chairman, Foreign Employment Bureau, Jagath Wellawatta in an interview […]

Chennai, Jan 8 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today demanded taking of Kachatheevu island in the gulf of Mannar on perpetual lease to put an end to the problem of Sri Lankan Navy attacking Indian fishermen.Chennai, Jan 8 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today demanded taking of Kachatheevu island in the gulf of […]

Sri Lankan banks considering collective entry into the Indian financial sector, using the Indo-Lanka CEPA.Sri Lankan banks considering collective entry into the Indian financial sector, using the Indo-Lanka CEPA. “The banks feel the most advantageous way of penetrating the Indian market is by forming a conglomerate of the top four private banks,” said Upali de […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 6, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said Thursday that his government did not want a war with the Tamil Tigers and appealed to the rebels to be flexible, return to the negotiating table and jointly strengthen a Norwegian-backed ceasefire.WASHINGTON, Jan 6, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Mangala […]