Sri Lanka’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) market is set to welcome a new player! Indian giant Pune Gas has partnered with 3DH Group to form Lanka Gastech, a joint venture poised to shake up the sector. This move comes as Sri Lanka’s industrial and commercial sectors increasingly seek sustainable energy solutions. Jesal Sampat, Executive Director…
Telecom giants Reliance Industries and Lycamobile are among three potential buyers vying for a stake in Sri Lanka’s state-owned Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), setting the stage for a high-stakes bidding war. The island nation’s State-Owned Enterprises Restructuring Unit confirmed initial interest from Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance, and Pettigo Comercio International, linked to the…
Sri Lanka faces mounting international pressure to halt its controversial anti-drug operation, “Yukthiya,” after accusations of mass arbitrary arrests, humiliating public searches, and forced military-run rehabilitation. Launched in December, the operation has seen thousands detained, primarily from marginalized communities, often without evidence or drugs in their possession. Critics, including 34 international rights groups, call for…
Volker Turk is urging Sri Lanka to review the operation and implement a rights-based approach to combatting illicit drugs The UN human rights agency on Friday criticised an ongoing anti-narcotics crackdown in Sri Lanka that has resulted in the arrest of over 30,000 suspects and sparked allegations of widespread abuses by the authorities. Police in…
හින්දු බැතිමතුන්ගේ නව වසරේ සුවිශේෂී උත්සවයක් ලෙස සැලකෙන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය සියලුම ලෝකවාසී හින්දු ජනයා විසින් අද (15) සමරනු ලබයි. අස්වනු කපා වියළා ගන්නට උචිත යහපත් කාලගුණයක් සලසාදීම වෙනුවෙන් සූර්යයාට අස්වැන්නේ මුල් කොටස පිදීමටත්, ගව මහිෂාදී සත්ත්ව සමූහයා වෙත කෘතගුණ සැලකීමත් අරමුණු කරගෙන මෙම උත්සවය පැවැත්වේ. ‘ තායි ‘ නම් දෙමළ මාසයේ පළමුවන දිනය හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ…
