Maithri, Ranil hold talks at Central Bank on state of economy

Speaker says no final decision on increasing salaries of MPs

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya says there is no final decision on increasing the salaries of Members of Parliament. In a media statement today,?Jayasuriya said that there has been a lot of debate in the media over reports a decision had been taken to increase the salaries of Parliamentarians. The Speaker said that any increase of the salaries of MPs must be in line with a decision reached by Parliament in 2006 on the salaries of MPs and High Court judges. Jayasuriya said that the salaries of?High Co

03 Aug, 2018

India to operate Mattala airport on a 40-year lease

India will operate the Mattala airport on a 40-year lease, as?per the draft agreement with Sri Lanka, a top Transport and Civil Aviation Ministry official in Colombo told?The Hindu. Days after?Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha told Parliament that there was no proposal for the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to acquire a controlling stake in Sri Lanka?s Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, a Sri Lankan Minister said talks on the project are ?progressing? with India. Sinha

04 Aug, 2018

Diplomats in Colombo hold talks with Commonwealth chief

British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James Dauris hosted visiting Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland and representatives of Commonwealth countries based in Colombo at a roundtable meeting at his residence, today (3 August). The meeting was attended by representatives from the High Commissions of Australia, Canada, Pakistan and South Africa, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka. The UK hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in April 2018 in Londo

03 Aug, 2018