Railway strike scheduled for this week called off following talks

VAT and Telecommunications Levy increased in tax reforms

The Government has decided to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 8% to 12% and the Telecommunications Levy from 11.23% to 15%. The Prime Minister’s Office said that Sri Lanka introduced a low tax regime in late 2019. The reforms included the reduction of tax rates of Value Added Tax, Personal Income Tax (PIT) and Corporate Income Tax (CIT), and narrowing tax bases of VAT and PIT, while introducing a plethora of tax incentives, such as tax exemptions for agriculture and Information Technol

31 May, 2022

Army counter deploys after PLA Pangong Tso bridge challenge

The new Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande conducted a security review of the Chinese ?People?s Liberation Army?s positions in East Ladakh and counter-deployments of the Indian Army earlier this month, ?in the wake of the Chinese Army constructing a double-span bridge 16 kilometres east of the once contested finger 8 on the north banks of Pangong Tso. Making his priorities clear, General Pande spent his first visit to East Ladakh after taking over as Chief on May 1, auditing ?LAC deployment

31 May, 2022

Graves of minority Ahmadiyya community being desecrated in Pakistan

Amid the already deteriorating condition of the minority communities in Pakistan, the country has gone below the belt with Ahmadiyyas as the graves of their dead are being dug up and their mortal remains being thrown away. Recently, the latest case was that of Ishfaq Ahmed, who was desecrated on May 19 in Peshawar, as reported by The Friday Times citing Saleem ud Din, the spokesperson of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan. A day earlier, a 36-year-old Ahmadi man was stabbed to death in front of

31 May, 2022