Category: Local News

To expedite modernizing Sri Lanka’s Postal Department, a new Postal Act will be presented to the parliament within this year, State Minister of Mass Media Shantha Bandara said.

Yuan Jiajun, a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party, scheduled an official visit to Sri Lanka from July 19 to July 23, the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka said.

A United Nations agency has urged global finance ministers to give poor countries debt repayment breaks, estimating the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent surge in inflation and borrowing costs had pushed an extra 165 million people into poverty.

Debt restructuring is making progress in countries outside of the G20 common framework, such as Sri Lanka, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says.

At least 15 passengers were injured after a Colombo bound private bus from Badulla ran off the road and overturned at Demodara in Ella on the Badulla-Colombo road this morning (July 15).

The lighting system of the ‘Golden Gate Kalyani’ bridge is no longer in operation due to the theft of several electric cables, Director General of the Road Development Authority L.V.S. Weerakoon said.

Major General Sanjaya Wanasinghe has been appointed as the new Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Health Ministry to expedite the approval process for drugs endorsed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

An employee attached to the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has died due to a bacterial infection believed to have entered via the patient’s cannula.

Sinopec Energy Lanka (Pvt) Limited and the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) signed an agreement today (July 14) to operate and set up fuel stations for distribution in Sri Lanka.

The body of the 32-year-old Danish woman who had reportedly gone missing since July 10 while hiking on the Alagalla mountain range in Kadugannawa, Sri Lanka has been found today (July 14).

The price of a 50 kg bundle of Muriate of Potash (MOP) fertilizer will be reduced by Rs. 1,000 from tomorrow (July 15), Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said.

Swiss Embassy employee Garnier Banister Francis was today (July 14) sentenced to two-years imprisonment suspended for five years by the Colombo High Court.

Sri Lanka Government has granted no-pay leave for government officials to be spent in or out of the country without affecting seniority or pensions.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the importance of financial discipline in nation-building and announced plans to promptly introduce formal measures to control public expenditure and generate new government revenue.

All necessary measures will be taken to reduce the tax burden currently imposed on the people as soon as possible, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya assured.