Fuel prices likely to be reduced in April

Sri Lankan family win reprieve minutes before deportation

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker family taken from a small Queensland town in Australia were pulled from a plane overnight, just minutes before they were due to be deported, SBS News reported. Border force officials removed Tamils Nadesalingam, Priya and their two Australian-born daughters from Biloela last week and put them in a Melbourne detention centre. Tamil Refugee Council spokesman Ben Hillier said they were handcuffed and taken in separate vans to Melbourne Airport on Tuesday, flown to Perth

14 Mar, 2018

Sri Lanka Australia’s strongest partner in tackling maritime people smuggling

Australia says Sri Lanka is?perhaps its strongest partner in tackling maritime people smuggling. The Australian Government today gifted two Bay Class Vessel engines to the Sri Lankan Navy in a handover ceremony held in Galle, demonstrating the two nations? shared commitment to combatting illegal maritime activity. Both engines have been installed in SLNS Mihikatha, one of two Bay Class Vessels gifted by the Australian Government in 2014 to bolster the Sri Lankan Navy?s maritime security capabi

14 Mar, 2018

Farmers reluctant to sell paddy to PMB due to market price

Farmers are reluctant to sell paddy to the?Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) due to the price in the open market. The Paddy Marketing Board has commenced purchasing rice from the 2018 Maha harvest in the Eastern Province and collected 2, 000 Metric tons under the guaranteed price up to date, the Government information department quoted the PMD Chairman M.B. Dissanayake as saying. Dissanayake further said that since the Maha harvest in the Southern Province also commenced simultaneously, the PMB has

14 Mar, 2018