Category: Local News

The United Nations Resident Coordinator, Marc-André Franche, paid a courtesy call to Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday afternoon (July 24).

The Sri Lankan rupee has turned into Asia’s worst-performing currency from being the best in the first half of the year, and is poised to extend losses amid headwinds from interest-rate cuts and loosening of import controls.

Eggs imported from India will be released to the local market today (July 25), Sri Lanka’s Trade Minister Nalin Fernando said.

A three-member judge panel of the Court of Appeal will hear the writ petition filed over State Minister Diana Gamage’s citizenship issue.

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers advised the Secretary to the President to appoint an expert committee to obtain the necessary recommendations for a complete restructuring and improvement of Sri Lanka Railways service.

Sri Lanka Railways said four office trains scheduled to operate this morning (July 25) were cancelled due to the strike action launched by railway power-set workers.

Sri Lankan Government has issued an order relaxing certain limitations on outward remittances for capital transactions and removing the restrictions on current transfers of emigrants.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the government will be unveiling a new tourist plan called ‘Visit Sri Lanka’ that will be released in the upcoming months.

The Norwegian Embassy in Colombo announced that it will permanently close on July 31, 2023.

Economist Amal Eran Herath Sanderatne has died after falling from the 7th floor of an apartment complex in Colombo 07, last evening (April 23).

Sri Lanka’s national inflation, which measures the increase in prices paid by consumers for goods and services across the country, eased further in June, bringing consumer prices to levels last seen nearly two years ago.

A total of eleven train services including office trains which were scheduled to operate this morning (July 24) were cancelled following trade union action launched by a trade union of engine drivers, the Department of Railways said.

The two LP gas companies should sell gas at the same prices according to the existing price formula and that legal action would be taken if this requirement is violated, Minister of Trade, Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Nalin Fernando said.

The first two shipments of fuel under the agreement with China’s Sinopec are due to arrive in Sri Lanka in the first week of August, State Minister of Petroleum D.V. Chanaka said.

China and Sri Lanka can cooperate in space science as Southern Sri Lanka has been identified as an area with the lowest gravity in the world and the Southern Ocean is most suitable for the landing of spacecraft, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said

Former LTTE members, who were found guilty for the bomb attack on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) on January 31, 1996, have been granted presidential pardon.