Category: Local News

Several protests are taking place against the fuel price hike and the shortage of fuel across many areas in Sri Lanka today (April 19).

Sri Lanka is barreling toward a “series of defaults” as it stops paying its foreign debts, Moody’s Investors Service warned in a downgrade of the country’s credit rating.

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Finance Ali Sabry has met with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva at IMF Headquarters in Washington DC.

Doctors across Sri Lanka say hospitals are running out of medicines and essential supplies as the country’s economic crisis worsens. They fear a health catastrophe if international help doesn’t arrive soon.

Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army, General Shavendra Silva, yesterday (April 18) said that the Army had never meant to harm civilians enjoying their constitutional right to peacefully protest and it neither ‘hatches secret plots,’ as alleged by some social media posts.

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has decided to increase fuel prices with effect from midnight on Monday (April 18).

Pakistan: An anti-terrorism court on Monday awarded death sentence to six and handed life imprisonment to nine as it announced its verdict in Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara’s lynching case.

After weeks of defiance Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he’s open to changes in the nation’s constitution to appease protesters calling for his ouster, likely setting the stage for curbing the executive’s sweeping powers as the nation’s deepening economic crisis has boiled over into political turmoil.

Wearing Face masks will not be mandatory in public places in Sri Lanka with effect from today (April 18), Minister of Health Channa Jayasumana said.

21 new State Ministers took oaths in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (April 18).

Sri Lanka’s embattled leader dropped two of his brothers and a nephew from his cabinet Monday, following public anger over the ruling family’s mismanagement of a crippling economic crisis and calls for his resignation.

A request was made by the former Governor of the Southern Province Keerthi Tennakoon from the Colombo Chief Magistrate Court to impose overseas travel bans on Former Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa and Former Secretary of the Finance Ministry S.R. Attygalle.

The Sri Lankan rupee has depreciated to the lowest value against the US dollar in history today (April 18).

A total of 17 new cabinet ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President’s House in Colombo a short while ago.

Former Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said that holding an election or amending the Constitution will not solve the current crisis in the country.

Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) has decided to increase prices of Diesel by Rs 75 per Litre and Petrol by Rs 35 per Litre with effect from midnight today (April 17).