Category: Local News

Sri Lanka’s Inland Revenue Department announced that a total of Rs. 316,619 Million (Rs. 316 Billion) was collected as Tax Revenue for the months of January, February and March 2023.

The Court of Appeal today (April 24) issued an interim order on the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) preventing the arrest or recording of a statement from Former Attorney General Dappula De Livera.

Ruling party MP Namal Rajapaksa said the collapse of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government was engineered as part of a conspiracy hatched since the defeat of the LTTE to destabilise the country economically, socially and politically.

Former Attorney General Dappula de Livera has filed a writ petition before the Court of Appeal through his lawyers over the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) summoning him to record a statement in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks.

A minor earth tremor of magnitude 4.4 in the Richter Scale was reported at 12.45 AM today (April 24) around 25.8 km off the coast of Hambantota.

The tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka from January to April 20, 2023 have topped the 400,000 mark, indicating the island nation’s tourism industry is firmly on the path of recovery.

The Delft Police arrested the main suspect in the brutal killing of five persons in a house in the Delft Island in Jaffna, last night (April 22).

Five persons were found hacked to death in a house in the Delft island in Jaffna this morning (22 April).

Sri Lanka’s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) (LKNCPI=ECI) eased to 49.2% year-on-year in March, after a 53.6% rise in February, the statistics department said on Friday.

SriLankan Airlines yesterday (April 21) said that the five aircraft are on ground owing to a global shortage and not because of a lack of finances as incorrectly stated in some news reports.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe says he is confident that this year’s celebrations of Eid-al-Fitr will serve to unify all Sri Lankans, irrespective of their race and religion, to work towards the common goal of developing a robust and equitable society that upholds the values of freedom and human dignity.

A 21-year-old man who provided false information over an impending bomb attack in Akurana was arrested this morning (April 22) in the area of Harispattuwa.

UNFPA Sri Lanka plans to implement a new project “ENSURE: Ensuring access to life-saving sexual & reproductive health and providing gender-based violence prevention and response services for women, girls and vulnerable groups” with funding from the Government of Japan.

Sri Lanka’s plan for a voluntary restructuring of its domestic debt is finding few takers from local banks worried about a hit to their capital, raising the risk of a delay in the country’s financial rescue.

Sri Lanka Navy says 23 individuals, who were among the 303 Sri Lankan nationals rescued after a boat capsized off the coast of Vietnam in November 2022, were deported to the island earlier this week.

As today (April 21) marks the fourth commemoration of the Easter Sunday Terror attacks in 2019, the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has initiated a ‘human chain’ (‘Jana Pavura’) .