President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday concluded his state visit to Bangladesh the addressing of a high-level business/Economic Dialogue in Dhaka organised by Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), in collaboration with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh. The official visit made on the invitation extended by the...
Despite a strict directive by Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne to lower the rates of dengue related medical tests, certain private hospitals are reportedly still charging exorbitant rates, according to complaints received by the Sunday Observer.A leading private medical institution in Colombo had charged Rs. 2,100 for the Dengue Antigen Test and Rs. 560 for the Full Blood Count from a distraught father...
New Inland Revenue Bill implementation
The new Inland Revenue Bill once enacted should be ideally implemented from April 1, 2018 giving a longer transitional period for both the tax payer and the Department of Inland Revenue to become fully conversant with the provisions of the law, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce said in a statement.The statement in full:“The new Inland Revenue bill, which was gazetted on June 16, 2017, was tabled in Parliament...
Using new data and drawing on the methodology of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we ranked 147 nations’ vulnerability to climate change. This included projecting various climate scenarios over different time frames to determine how changing oceanic conditions may affect the abundance and distribution of fish in the ocean.The whole suite of climate scenarios - optimistic and pessimistic, near...
Cremer creams up Lanka’s batting
Zimbabwe continued to dominate the one-off Test against Sri Lanka when they finished on top at the end of the second day by reducing the home team to 293 for seven wickets in reply to their first innings total of 356 at the R Premadasa Stadium yesterday.None of the Sri Lankan batsmen could emulate the marathon effort put in by Craig Ervine who batted 347 minutes for his 160 - that was the cornerstone on...
