Category: Local News

Sri Lanka aims to strengthen its economy and move the country forward by entering into bilateral agreements with several countries including China and India, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said.

AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday asserted her party would take “continuous steps” to attain a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka and demand that the Centre grant dual citizenship for refugees from the island nation living in the state.

Sri Lanka’s new police chief, reacting to public charges of bias, said on Friday he would ensure that a police investigation into alleged financial crimes by the family and friends of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa would be impartial.

The European Union’s executive is to recommend that the bloc lifts a 15-month ban on fish exports from Sri Lanka after the island nation changed its laws to fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, it said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to brief the United National Party (UNP) Ministers, Deputy Ministers and MPs on the situation with regard to tax reforms, shortly.

There is an amazing similarity between the trip to Sri Lanka by Rajiv Gandhi to sign the Indo-Lanka Agreement in 1987 and the visit to China by Ranil to escape from the Chinese Debt Trap.

Refuting criticism on the conduct of the Constitutional Council (CC) in selecting the new Inspector General of Police, Justice and Buddhasasana Minister Dr. Wijayadasa Rajapakshe said that the CC was acting well within its capacity to select the suitable candidate for the post.

Three grenades hidden inside an ice-cream container have been recovered from a drain in Hettipola, Kuliyapitiya, the Police Spokesman confirmed a short while ago on Tuesday (19) morning.

Sri Lanka has given the authority to investigate all areas where Sri Lankan companies have been involved, which has not been disclosed with regard to Sri Lankans disclosed in Panama Papers, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said.

President Maithripala Sirisena said he would not allow economists to enforce any tax that would adversely affect the public.

194 families of the Chithambarapuram camp of Internally Displaced Persons will get land ownership of the area they have been occupying tomorrow,(19) the Hindu reports.

The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has called on the Auditor General to submit a report regarding all dealings done by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) since January this year.

The government was going slow on investigations into allegations that the Rajapakasas had allegedly siphoned off US$ 18 billion in State funds while in power between 2005 and 2014…

Sri Lankan five-day rupee forwards ended higher on Friday on dollar sales by a state bank, but lack of inflows due to a government-declared public holiday weighed on the currency, dealers said.

Swiss authorities received 146 applications from asylum seekers from Sri Lanka within the month of March, according to figures from Switzerland’s federal migration office (SEM).

David Cameron: “I would like to send my best wishes to everyone in Britain and Sri Lanka celebrating Aluth Avurudda and to all Tamil communities celebrating Puthandu (Tamil New Year) today.”