Category: Local News

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’) .

Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung that the Sri Lanka Government’s objective in bringing the new Anti-Terrorism Act to replace the existing Prevention of Terrorism Act is to ensure the safety of the people of the country.

Economists sharply cut Sri Lanka’s growth outlook through this year as curbs on imports and still-limited reserves persist even as the International Monetary Fund releases bailout loans and authorities work toward debt restructuring efforts.

Sri Lanka’s highest energy demand in recent times was recorded yesterday (April 19), Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said.

An Extraordinary Gazette notification (2328/05) was issued yesterday (April 19) by the Sri Lanka’s Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) announcing the maximum retail price for eggs by weight, with effect from today (April 20).

All emergency surgeries at Embilipitiya District General Hospital have been suspended for more than two weeks due to the shortage of anesthesiologists.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the education of children cannot be allowed to be taken hostage and if teachers do not make themselves available for A/L exam paper marking by next week, he would not hesitate to make education an essential service under emergency law and initiate legal action against teachers flouting their responsibility.

The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka says that the country’s wildlife authorities have clarified that they are not aware of the request to export 100,000 toque macaque monkeys from Sri Lanka to a Chinese private company and that no such application has been received from any side.

A lawyer representing former Attorney General Dappula de Livera appeared before the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) today (April 19).

Expressing his opposition to the government move to export Toque monkeys to China, former Minister Navin Dissanayake said that there is a great possibility that these Toque monkeys will end up in labs and subjected to torture.

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka for the first 16 days of April topped 56,000, bringing the total number of international visitors entering Sri Lanka for the year closer to the 400,000 mark.

Private Health Services Regulatory Council Secretary Dr. Dhammika Alahapperuma said yesterday (April 18) that letters have been sent to the relevant institutions informing them that the service fees of private hospitals and medical institutions should be charged fairly.

Sri Lanka is considering a proposal by a Chinese private company to export 100,000 endemic monkeys to China, a government minister said on Tuesday, sparking protests from animal protection groups.