BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The government of Sri Lanka has imposed a social security tax that aims to charge a 2.5% tax on those with a turnover of more than Rs 120 million. According to the tax details, it seems an indirect tax and people aren’t clear about the tax details. Can this tax shift to […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS One result of the JVP violence was that it helped strengthen the army. Prior to 1971 Sri Lanka army was a small force.  After the 1971 insurgency the government saw the need for a larger army. They increased the officer cadet cadre. They took in 30 trainees of which 17 graduated. The training […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The third eruption of JVP violence was in May, 2022 when they burned down houses of politicians. This was the first time that JVP had engaged in arson on this scale, but this was not the first time JVP had burnt houses. They did it during the 1971 insurgency too. Neville Jayaweera reported […]

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Sasanka De Silva,Pannipitiya. In today’s politics, not only in Sri Lanka but also in other areas of the world, it is difficult to avoid this. It is the act of making a legal effort to sway the decisions, policies, or actions of public servants, most frequently politicians or employees of regulatory bodies. People who want […]

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By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 3 (Counterpoint): It was not very long ago that many thought that India had totally abandoned its traditional non-aligned foreign policy and was squarely in the US camp. The 2008 Indo-US nuclear deal which gave Indian critical waivers, the increased purchase of arms from the US in preference to […]

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අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්, ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ කවුරුන් කැමැති වුවත්, අකමැති වුවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව යළි ගොඩනැගිය හැක්කේ බිඳවැටෙමින් පවතින බටහිර බලය වෙනුවට ශීඝ්‍රයෙන් වැඩෙමින් පවතින ආසියාතික බලය කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසය තබා ගමනක් යෑමට සූදානම් පාලනයකට පමණක් බවත් එහෙත් වත්මන් පාලකයන් ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය ප්‍රමුඛ බටහිර බලවතුන්ගේ උවමනාව අනුව යමින්, චීනය සහ රුසියාව ප්‍රමුඛ ආසියාතික රටවල් […]

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Courtesy RFI Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s government on Sunday cut taxes on female sanitary products in a bid to help women and girls unable to afford them because of the country’s economic crisis. Even before the downturn last year, many schoolgirls and women in Sri Lanka, like in other poor countries, would stay home when […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the plans are underway to start the construction of 2,000 housing units for low-income families in conjunction with the 75th Independence Day. he stated that it has been more than half a century since Sri Lanka gained independence and that many other countries in the region and the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Steps have been taken to provide medicines and medical supplies worth over Rs. 4,600 million (USD 12 million) with the intervention of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington DC, the President’s Media Division said. One consignment of medicines and medical supplies provided by the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington DC working closely with […]

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