Sixty percent of Colombo-Katunayake Expressway complete

Sixty percent of work on the Colombo-Katunayake Expressway has been completed. The rest of the work is progressing at a rapid pace, Ports and Highways Deputy Minister Nirmala Kotelawala said "This will create a high mobility link between Colombo and the Bandaranaike International Airport enabling motorists to travel to the airport in 20 minutes," Kotelawala said. He said work is expected to be completed by the end of 2012. The Expressway will be commissioned during the first quarter of 2013. The length of the Expressway will be around 25.3 kilometres starting from the New Kelani Bridge and ending at the Airport Access Road...

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China, a tower of strength to Sri Lanka - Minister GL

'China was a tower of strength to Sri Lanka, especially when we faced various challenges in the international arena, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L Peiris said. Minister Prof. G.L Peiris The minister was making the keynote address at the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and the People's Republic of China and 60th anniversary of Sri Lanka - China Rubber Rice Pact, at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike International Conference Hall yesterday. The Sri Lanka China Friendship Association, Sri Lanka China Society, Association for Sri Lanka-China...

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Keep away from wasp colonies’ - Wildlife Ministry

The Ministry of Wildlife and Agrarian Services has warned the Ministry of Cultural Affairs not to interfere with the wasp colonies around the Sigiriya rock fortress by attempting to remove the wasp nests in the rock. The Wildlife and Agrarian Services Ministry’s Wildlife Conservation Department officials told the Cultural Affairs Ministry’s Central Cultural Fund , if the latter should do anything to upset the biodiversity around the Sigirya Rock , they would institute legal action against the Cultural Fund, the Daily News reliably learns. The Wildlife and Agrarian Ministry pointed out that it is not the business of the Cultural Affairs Ministry to control insect behaviour. Meanwhile, thousands of visitors to the Sigiriya Rock , including children and foreigners...

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New museum for H'tota

New museum for H'tota  [June 25 2012]     The National Museum Department is drawing up a plan to establish a new museum in Hambantota next year, Museum Superintendent Ranjith Hewage told the Daily News.  This museum will be named Hambantota Uruma, he said. Conservation programmes of the two old buildings in the Kachcheri premises will commence next month, he said. The Treasury has allocated Rs 18 million for this task, he added.  Traditional and endemic items related to the Hambantota area will be exhibited in the proposed museum. Historical items related to art, religion and politics will be displayed, Hewage...

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Colombo Engineering's first Q revenue tops US$ 400, 000

The Colombo Engineering Company has earned a revenue of US$ 400,000 for the first three months of operations during the current financial year. Kiran Atapattu The Chairman of Colombo Engineering Kiran Atapattu, said that the revenue was achieved through ship repairs, adding that the ship building industry had tremendous potential to expand. He said that with the Ruhunu Magampura Harbour opening, more opportunities had emerged and they too were geared to undertake any type of repairs in the Hambantota Harbour. The company had also undertaken a job on a German owned, 'Courier' and had completed...

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Second Expressway to be completed by year end

Sixty percent of the construction work on Sri Lanka’s second Expressway from Colombo to Katunayake has been completed and the rest of the work is progressing at a rapid rate, Ports and Highways Deputy Minister Nirmala Kotelawala told the Daily News. “This would create a high mobility link between Colombo and the Bandaranaike International Airport enabling motorists to travel to the airport in 20 minutes,” Deputy Minister Kotalawala said.  Source from Daily News.lk...

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Govt to amend Press Council Act

*‘Websites to be streamlined’ *‘Can’t allow mud-slinging campaigns’ Dharma SRI ABEYRATNE The government has put in place several steps to amend the Press Council Act of Sri Lanka to monitor and mitigate issues created by certain websites, Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. Minister Rambukwella The minister addressing the weekly Cabinet media briefing at the Media and Information Ministry yesterday, said even though the print and electronic media can be monitored and regulated by the Sri Lanka Press Council Act, websites are not monitored by the Act. “It is an exception since those monitoring...

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