Category: Local News

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has emphasised the importance of anti-corruption and governance reforms as a central pillar of the EFF-supported program as they are indispensable to ensure the hard-won gains from the reforms benefit the Sri Lankan people.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking a 10-year moratorium on its foreign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said yesterday (March 20) on the eve of a desperately needed US $ 2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that the IMF Executive Board approved Sri Lanka’s USD 2.9 billion bailout package under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF).

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has requested the Attorney General to file criminal cases against three pyramid-type prohibited schemes operating in the country as those schemes are acting contrary to the Section 83C of the Banking Act.

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has decided to accept individual income tax file records only via online from the tax year 2023 – 2024.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Board (IMF) will meet today (March 20) to consider Sri Lanka’s bailout package of $2.9 billion for approval.

Unit 3 of the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant is inoperative due to a breakdown, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said on Saturday (March 18) that he wished to become a pilot if he didn’t venture into politics.

The term of office of 340 out of the 341 Local Government bodies is set to expire at midnight today (March 19).

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) stresses that the next Inspector-General of Police (IGP) should be an officer whose service in the police force is exemplary and free of any blemish and able to restore public confidence in the Sri Lanka Police.

In a significant security lapse at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru, 30 passengers who arrived from Colombo were mistakenly dropped at the domestic arrivals gate on Friday.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will travel to China from March 24 to March 30, IMF sources told Reuters on Friday.

Former Member of Parliament J. Sri Ranga was arrested by the Police today (March 17) for influencing witnesses over an accident that took place in Vavuniya in 2011, police said.

The unmarried couple who are the parents of the infant who had abandoned inside a toilet of the Meenagaya Intercity Express Train at Fort Railway station on Friday (March 10) were granted bail this morning (March 17) by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has made recommendations to appoint Senior DIG Deshabandu Thennakoon as Sri Lanka’s 36th Inspector General of Police (IGP) following the retirement of the current IGP C.D. Wickramaratne on March 25.

Since funds have still not been received from the Treasury, it is not possible to start printing the ballot papers for the upcoming Local Government Election, Government Printer Gangani Kalpana Liyanage informed the Election Commission of Sri Lanka yesterday (March 16).