Tamil Nadu fishermen accuse Sri Lankan Navy of attacking them

Lanka to cut recruiting charges for housemaids

Sri Lanka?s job agents have agreed to reduce the recruiting charges of housemaids from SR15000 to SR11,000 to sustain the Saudi market, Arab News reported. Speaking to Arab News during his visit to the capital, Faizer Mackeen, president of Association of Licensed Foreign Agencies (ALFEA), said that the members of the association have reached a consensus on decreasing the charges. Mackeen said that there are more than 1,000 recruiting agents in Sri Lanka and only one fifth of them are authorize

27 May, 2015

Keheliya was not invited to rejoin says UNP

The United National Party (UNP) has denied claims made by former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella that he was invited to rejoin the party. A former UNP MP,?Rambukwella had joined the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government and was the Media Minister until?Rajapaksa lost the January 8 Presidential election. Rambukwella had recently claimed that he was invited by the UNP to rejoin the party but UNP General Secretary Kabir Hashim today denied the claims. Hashim said that so far no one from the UNP has even st

27 May, 2015

Government denies claims China sidelined

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mahishini Colonne The Government, which took office in January this year, today?denied claims that it had decided to sideline China. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mahishini Colonne recalled that after?the new Government took office, President Maithripala Sirisena and Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera had visited China, so no one can say China is being sidelined. “Don’t actions speak for themselves,” the spokesperson said at a weekly press briefing held at the

27 May, 2015