Newly appointed Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, in an interview with Daily Mirror, speaks about plans to bring back the economy to pre-pandemic levels and overcome the foreign exchange crisis. He speaks with confidence that there will be sufficient inflows to overcome it. Excerpts :
New Zealand opened a resident mission in Sri Lanka recently to promotion of bilateral ties to a new level. Its High Commissioner Michael Appleton in an email interview with the Dailymirror responded to queries about the new areas of bilateral cooperation, recent knife rampage in his country by a person of Sri Lankan origin, security cooperation and geopolitics.
Although this stock has been sold for Rs.135 per kilo the open market price of garlic is more than Rs.400 a kilo. The CAA officers were able to take pictures of all the documents used in this scam. They were about to alter the log books when our officers raided the Welisara warehouse
A damning new U.N. report warning of certain devastation from climate change has been dubbed humanity’s ‘final wake-up call’ by environmental experts. The U.N.’s IPCC climate panel has released a highly anticipated report warning that efforts to limit global warming to close to
Justice Minister Ali Sabry takes questions regarding the process of amending the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act and others. In his interview, he also responds matters related to cases under the PTA. The Excerpts:
Parliamentarian Prof. Charitha Herath, Chairman of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee COPE, is tasked with the onerous responsibility of turning hundreds of unviable public enterprises into profit making ventures by minimising waste, corruption, mismanagement and maintaining their audit reports and accounts to meet the highest quality standards.