SLPP Anuradhapura District MP Nandasena passed away

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

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

Over 20 Indians employed in Colombo while on tourist visas arrested

Over 20 Indians who had been employed in Colombo while on tourist visas have been arrested. The Immigration and Emigration Department said that 23 Indians had been arrested in Colombo.

14 Mar, 2018