Category: Local News

The Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) has decided to extend the validity period of temporary driving licenses issued after next Monday (June 26) for 2 years.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe met the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, during his official visit to the United Kingdom.

The Bakery Owners’ Association has reduced the price of a 450g loaf of bread and other bakery products by Rs. 10 each.

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has encouraged Sri Lankan authorities to implement their recommendations.

The United Kingdom (UK) is implementing what it called ‘one of the most generous preferential trading schemes’ in the world and Sri Lanka is one of 65 countries benefiting from it, according to a statement from the British High Commission.

The Sri Lanka Government has not yet taken a final decision regarding the domestic debt optimization programme, Minister of State for Finance Shehan Semasinghe said.

Sri Lanka Police have arrested three people while in possession of approximately 1,225 kilograms of cannabis today (June 19) in Embilipitiya, the Police Media Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said.

The World Bank is likely to approve $700 million in budgetary and welfare support for Sri Lanka at its next board meeting on June 28, sources told Reuters, the biggest funding tranche for the crisis-hit island nation since an IMF deal in March.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate today (June 19) issued a warrant for the arrest of Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa for not being present in Court in connection with the case filed against him over his 2016 protest in front of the UN office in Colombo by Cinnamon Garden police.

The Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR) has appreciated against the US dollar (USD) today (June 19), according to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).

There is no shortage of Petrol Octane 95 or any other petroleum products at filling stations owned by both the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) and the Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC), Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wjiesekera said.

The government is trying to rekindle ethnic and religious conflicts in the country for its political survival, National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday (June 18).

Former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama appointed as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) with effect from August 01, 2023.

Wheat flour has been listed under the category of ‘specified goods’ with effect from midnight on June 16, 2023 by way of an Extraordinary Gazette notification issued by the Minister of Trade, Nalin Fernando.

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 13 people, including 10 foreigners, in the India-Sri Lanka illegal drugs and arms trade case relating to attempts to revive the terror group LTTE in the two countries, an official said on Friday.

Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said on Friday (June 16) that import of vehicles cannot be allowed at this moment under the prevailing economic situation.