Iraj appointed to Board of tourism bureau

Government claims PM’s family did not travel to India on state funds

The Government claims Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s family members did not travel to India on state funds. Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena told reporters today that anyone can travel overseas with a Government delegation using personal funds. He said that he does not believe Rajapaksa’s family members traveled to India using Government funds. The Minister was responding to a question raised at a media briefing today over Rajapaksa’s son Yoshitha Rajapaksa and another relative being

13 Feb, 2020

SriLankan Airlines ponders claiming Airbus graft damages

The Government of Sri Lanka is considering ways of recovering damages, including claiming compensation from France’s Airbus SE, after the planemaker admitted bribing executives to win Airbus orders. ?The reputational damage was huge, enormous,? Vipula Gunatilleka, chief executive of state-run SriLankan Airlines, said in an interview at the Singapore Airshow today. ?That?s why our government is looking at certain remedial action.? Airbus two weeks ago admitted illegally trying to sway plane sal

12 Feb, 2020

Russia considering building nuclear power plant in Sri Lanka

Russia could build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Sri Lanka someday, considering the growing energy demand in the country, Russian Ambassador to Colombo Yury Materiy has said in an interview with Sputnik. Since the Sri Lankan government favours pollution-free energy and aims at gradually replacing coal and oil with gas and alternative energy sources, the use of nuclear energy is possible only in a long-term perspective, while relevant effort is already made, the Ambassador said. “The NPP would

12 Feb, 2020