Category: Local News

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe addressed the United National Party (UNP) May Day celebrations held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo yesterday (May 01) through video technology.

Eight persons including three women have been injured and admitted to the Colombo National Hospital due to a shooting by a security guard near Gate 06 of the Colombo harbour today (May 01), police said.

Sri Lankan political party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has released an official message for International Workers’ Day 2023.

Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Finance Ranjth Siyambalapitiya says that the Inland Revenue Department (IRD)  has earned revenue of 105 percent exceeding the expected revenue in the first quarter of 2023.

Sri Lankan actor G.R. Perera passed away at the age of 83 this morning (May 01).

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited all the working people of Sri Lanka to join hands as we undertake a new reformist path of building a prosperous Sri Lanka by 2048.

Fuel prices in Sri Lanka will be reduced from midnight today (April 30).

Millions of less affluent Sri Lankans working in the Middle East are sending money home to keep the economy afloat while the more educated who hold higher posts in developed countries keep money stashed elsewhere, Labour Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said in Parliament on Tuesday (April 25).

Nearly 2,000 public sector employees have opted to obtain extended leave for a five-year period to travel overseas for employment.

Notorious criminal and drug trafficker Sinhara Amal Saminda Silva alias Kudu Anju has been arrested in France, Sri Lanka Police confirmed today (April 29).

A 37-year-old man was shot dead inside a house in Lunugamwehera last night (April 28).

Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eased to 35.3% in April from 50.3% in March, the statistics department said on Friday, a sign of relief for the crisis-battered economy.

The Resolution for the Implementation of the Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka was passed in the Parliament of Sri Lanka today (April 28) after a three-day debate.

The Sri Lanka Navy Marine Corps presented three special Combat All-Terrain Vehicles (CATVs) to President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (April 27).

Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told Parliament yesterday (April 27) that a separate Committee will be appointed to find out about the migration of medical specialists and other professionals in the health sector and take necessary measures in this regard.

Sri Lanka’s economy is expected to shrink by 2% in 2023, its central bank said in an annual report on Thursday, as the country struggled to emerge from its worst financial crisis in decades.