Category: NEWS

  • Vannerikulam become Bird Sanctuary in Northern Province

    A resolution was passed at the Northern Provincial Council to declare Vannerikkilam area within the purview of the Northern Provincial Council as a Bird sanctuary. Preliminary work in Vannerikulam within tte Karaichichi Pradheshiya Sabha should be commenced forthwith and should be made available to the general public as early as possible. This would ease the…

  • G.C.E (O/L) 2013 Re-correction result released now at www.doenets.lk

    The Department of Examination released 2013 G.C.E (O/L) Examinationss rescrutinised result on www.doenets.lk.  those who applied for Recorrection to G.C.E (O/L) Examination could obtain the result by Clicking below Link G.C.E (O/L) re-correction Result All the Best to All Students who gets their Result.

  • Samsung Mobile Phones loosing Market Position in India and China

    The times are changing. And so are the preferences of Smartphone users in the world’s two biggest markets – India and China. These changes do not bode well for global market leader, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics. Recent industry figures have shown that during the second quarter of the year, Xiaomi, a handset maker in China,…

  • Wildlife Photographic Competition for 65th Anniversary of the Department of Wildlife Conservation

    Department of Wildlife Conservation organised an wildlife photographic competition Held to mark the 65th Anniversary of the Department of Wildlife Conservation this Wildlife Photographic Competition Open Section and School Section. A decision has been taken to hold wildlife photographic competition to mark the 65th Anniversary of the Department of Wildlife Conservation. Any Sri Lankan and…

  • Urban Development Project at Kandy City at a cost of USD 100 Million

    The strategic Urban Development Project centered round the historic Kandy City, would be launched in August, this year. Initially US$ 100 Million would be spent on this project handled with the active contribution of the Defence and Urban Development Ministry. This was revealed at a special meeting held at the Kandy Kachcheri. It was also…

  • NHDA’s World Habitat Day Art & Essay competition for schoolchildren

    The National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) invites schoolchildren islandwide to participate in an Art and Essay competition launched to mark World Habitat Day, which falls on October 6, 2014. It is a special day for nature lovers. Under the themes of, ‘Environment protects us’, ‘Revamping settlements’ and ‘Settlements-environment and our future will be brighter’; students…

  • Hayleys to venture into instant tea

    Hayleys PLC, through its subsidiary Kelani Valley Plantations PLC is to venture into the instant tea market. Dipped Products PLC a subsidiary of Hayleys announced that Kelani Valley Plantations has set up a new company, Hayleys Global Beverages Ltd ( HGBL) to process and manufacture Ready to Drink Tea (RDT).  

  • Central Bank decided to stop printing 10 rupee notes; replace by 10 Rupees Coins

    Sri Lanka Central Bank decided to stop printing this lower denomination currency replacing it with 10 rupee coins. Most of these notes are disfigured and the Central Bank is now issuing coins to all banks replacing the old notes, a senior official of the Central Bank’s currency management division said. The CB has placed a…

  • Sri Lanka army is into Economic Supportive development of Dairy farming

    The Sri Lankan army, involved in business and economic activity since the May 2009 end of the conflict, is aiming to be one of the country’s largest milk producers. As it expands its contribution to GDP growth – not through salaries, wages and expenditure on military hardware but real economic activity, the army has established…

  • Colombo City and Subs Garbage going to be Solid Waste to Puttalam

    For the first time in Sri Lanka history, the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) will transport garbage as part of a solid-waste disposal project in which garbage will be collected from Colombo City and the suburbs. The garbage will be disposed at a site in Aruakkalu in Puttalam under a newly formulated Municipal Solid Waste Disposal…