Category: Local News

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has determined that some clauses of 22nd Amendment to the Constitution are inconsistent with the Constitution and needs to be approved through a special majority in Parliament and a referendum, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeyawardane told Parliament today (September 06).

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Monday a constitutional amendment bill trimming presidential powers is expected to become law in a couple of weeks.

Despite the country reaching self-sufficiency in canned fish production, the local canned fish manufacturers allege that the country’s largest modern retail chain, state-owned Lanka Sathosa, is attempting to purchase imported canned fish.

Sri Lanka will not accept any international investigation imposed by the U.N. Human Rights Council into alleged rights abuses during the country’s long civil war, an official said Monday.

Sri Lanka’s government has appointed a committee to facilitate the repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees from India, according to a statement from the government on Monday.

Prices of Litro domestic LP Gas cylinders will be reduced from midnight today (August 05).

India on Sunday highlighted its constructive and significant role in human-centric globalization at the United Nations General Assembly and said that it had provided nearly $4 billion in food and financial assistance to Sri Lanka.

The Health Ministry spends nearly 40% of the Ministry’s expenditure on medicines to purchase medicines for cancer patients, it was revealed at a meeting with the President.

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva today said she is very pleased that IMF staff and Sri Lankan government officials have reached a staff-level agreement to support the country’s economic policies with a 48-month Extended Fund Facility of about US$ 2.9 billion.

A 31-year-old man died when he was shot in Thalgaswala, Pitigala last night (September 03), police said.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP and the Chairman of the Committee for Public Finance Dr. Harsha de Silva stated that although the government has signed a staff-level agreement with the IMF, the Parliament has not been briefed on the terms and conditions of the agreement.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued a gazette notification to be effective from September 03, 2022, specifying once again the supply of power and all related services, petroleum production and fuel supply or distribution and health services as essential services for maintaining normalcy of life of the public.

Sri Lanka has increased Charges for Mobile, Fixed-Line, Broadband, Television and other Prepaid and Postpaid Services with effect from 05th September 2022.

China assures it is ready to work with relevant countries and international financial institutions to continue to play a positive role in supporting Sri Lanka to overcome the current debt and economic crisis.

A loaf of bread will be sold at Rs.300/-, the All Ceylon Bakery Owners’ Association said.

Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis, has returned to the country after seven weeks.