Sri Lanka President holds talks with U.S. trade representative on tariff reductions

A major step has been taken to revive one of Sri Lanka’s largest state-owned industrial assets, as officials conducted a field visit yesterday (July 25) to the roofing tile manufacturing factory in Mahiyanganaya.

Brigadier Franklin Joseph USP officially assumed duties as the new Director of Media and Spokesman for the Ministry of Defence in Sri Lanka on July 22, 2025.

The Ministry of Transport, Highways, Ports, and Civil Aviation in Sri Lanka has announced that the contract for maintaining the driver’s license printing software has been reduced by Rs. 156 million.

President of Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, will embark on a State Visit to the Maldives from July 28 to 30, 2025, at the invitation of Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu.

A group of youths in the Heenuggala area of Makulugaswewa have reportedly apprehended two police sergeants and another individual, along with a dead axis deer, allegedly hunted with the help of a civilian, according to the Galgamuwa Wildlife Office.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Evan Papageorgiou, the IMF Mission Chief for Sri Lanka, visited Colombo from July 21 to 25, 2025.

A 52-year-old Canadian man was arrested this morning (July 25) by Sri Lanka Customs at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake for smuggling a large quantity of illegal drugs.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognized Sri Lanka’s continued economic progress as the country prepares for its fifth review under the IMF-supported Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake held a discussion yesterday afternoon (July 24) at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo with relevant ministers and officials regarding the protection of wild elephants and the safeguarding of rural communities’ daily lives.

The gunman who carried out a targeted shooting near the Dehiwala Railway Station around 11:00 AM on July 18, 2025, was killed in a shootout with the Police Special Task Force (STF) early this morning (July 25).

A Sub-Inspector attached to the Kompannavidiya Police Station has been arrested by officers of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) on charges of soliciting a bribe of Rs. 100,000.

Dhanushka Weerakkody, the son-in-law of Parliamentarian Rohitha Abeygunawardena, was remanded until August 1, 2025, over a case involving an illegally assembled vehicle.

Dhanushka Weerakkody, the son-in-law of Parliamentarian Rohitha Abeygunawardena, appeared before the Matugama Magistrate’s Court today (July 24) in connection with an ongoing investigation into a controversial vehicle transaction.

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ordered the shipping company responsible for the MV X-Press Pearl to pay USD 1 billion in compensation to the Sri Lankan government for the environmental and economic damage caused by the ship’s fire and sinking off the western coast in 2021.

An attempted shooting targeting a health administration officer near the S. De S. Jayasinghe Stadium in Dehiwala failed this morning (July 24) around 9:15 AM, according to police.