// Health
Service in North mandatory for nurses
The Health Ministry has made it compulsory for the nurses to serve in Northern Province as the hospitals in the region are experiencing a shortage of nurses. According to the Health Ministry, all the nurses, who completed five years of service outside the Northern Province, are required to serve in the Northern Province as part [...]
// Lifestyle/Leisure
Independence referendum consultation
First Minister Alex Salmond at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh today outlined detailed proposals for the referendum in autumn 2014 on whether Scotland should be an independent country. The consultation paper – Your Scotland Your Referendum – seeks views on: what the ballot paper should say what spending limits should be set how the referendum [...]
// Entertainment
Galle literary festival closed
Curtains came down on the five-day long Galle Literary Festival on Sunday with discussions on obsessive love, war and Indira Gandhi taking centre stage. Biographers Nayantara Sahgal and Katherine Frank shed light on the iron lady of South Asia, the iconic Indira Gandhi’s political career and how she exercised power during her rule as India’s [...]
// Marketing
Sri Lanka hosts international tea meeting
Sri Lanka will host a key meeting of officials from major tea producing and consuming nations next week. The 20th Session of Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Inter-Governmental Group on Tea will meet in Colombo from January 30 to February 01, a statement from the Sri Lanka Tea Board said. “Today, there is political uncertainty in [...]
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Bolton complete Ream capture
Bolton have completed the signing of USA defender Tim Ream from the New York Red Bulls for an undisclosed fee. The 24-year-old, who has penned a three-and-a-half-year deal, has long been linked with a move to the Trotters and spent a week training with the club last year. Ream’s arrival, which is subject to international [...]
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