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The main aim of local police in dealing with cannabis has been to target vendors who sell to minors or have positioned themselves near minors (such as at a school). Possession of less than 5 kg of cannabis is treated as a minor crime, with fines or short jail sentences. Sri Lanka's Prison System actively tries to rehabilitate drug users. [5]
Dulith Herath is a Sri Lankan entrepreneur. [3] He is the founder and chairman of the Sri Lankan e-commerce platform Kapruka.com, [4] Java Lounge [5] and the co-founder of Grasshoppers Pvt. Ltd. which provides logistics to small enterprises in Sri Lanka. [6]
Sri Lanka, [b] historically known as Ceylon, [c] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
In India he raised an army with the intention of returning and retaking the throne of Sri Lanka, which he considered to be rightfully his. Expecting the inevitable return of Moggallana, Kashyapa is said to have built his palace on the summit of Sigiriya as a fortress as well as a pleasure palace.
Colombo Land and Development Company PLC (CLDC) is a Sri Lankan property development and holding company involved in mixed development projects in the real estate and retail sector. Established on 8 December 1981, CLDC was subsequently listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange on 19 March 1986.
LMD 100, dubbed as "Sri Lanka's Fortune 500", annually lists the leading 100 quoted companies in Sri Lanka. Only the top 10 companies are listed below. All revenue figures reported before the financial year ending 2024. [2] [3]
LMD 100 ranks listed companies in Sri Lanka by revenue annually. [10] Amari Wijewardene is the company's chairperson and a member of the Wijewardene family . Wijewardene's appointment as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in 2016 by her cousin, then prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was criticised as nepotism. [ 11 ]
The government paid some compensation to the owners of land taken over under both the 1972 and 1975 laws. In early 1988, the state-owned plantations were managed by one of two types of entities, the Janatha Estates Development Board, or the Sri Lanka State Plantation Corporation. [14]