Category: Local News

The National People’s Power claims in order to eliminate poverty and improve the economic conditions of rural folk, the livelihoods of the poverty-stricken must be uplifted.

Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal stressed that there is no conflict between him and Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa.

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet today urged the Sri Lankan Government to acknowledge the rights of the victims and families of the disappeared, urgently determine the fate or whereabouts of victims, bring perpetrators to justice and provide reparations.

Sri Lanka has paid USD 39.3 million via the state-owned Bank of Ceylon to the Singaporean company for a tanker carrying diesel and jet fuel docked at the Colombo Port, the Ministry of Energy says.

Under the Cabinet reshuffle, few more Cabinet Ministers and State Ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today (March 04).

Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara says he cannot continue in his Ministerial post, following the recent developments.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has advised the government to consider increasing fuel prices and electricity tariffs immediately to reflect the cost.

The report compiled over a clash at the Medical Faculty of the University of Kelaniya in Ragama between two student groups at the hostel premises of the faculty has been handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa removed Udaya Gammanpila and Wimal Weerwansa from their ministerial portfolios with effect from today (March 03) evening, as per the powers vested in him by the constitution.

The International Monetary Fund warned crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Thursday that its foreign debt was “unsustainable”, and called for devaluation and higher taxes to revive the almost bankrupt economy.

The Ministry of Health has issued an Extraordinary Gazette notification declaring the maximum retail price of 500mg tablets of Paracetamol with effect from February 28, 2022.

With the forex crisis getting worse by the day, a gazette notification is to be issued, discouraging 600 non-essential imports to save foreign reserves, Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila said yesterday (March 02).

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (March 02) instructed Foreign Minister Professor G.L. Peiris and the Sri Lankan Embassy in Moscow to take necessary measures to ensure security of Sri Lankan students pursuing higher education in Belarus in the face of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the Prime Minister’s Media Division said.

Sri Lanka will suffer no more power cuts after March 05, the president’s office said in a statement on Wednesday, following days of outages caused by a lack of funds to buy enough fuel to fire power plants.

Sri Lanka has settled the payment of USD 31 million to the Singaporean company for the shipment of 37,300 metric tonnes of diesel that arrived in the country today (March 02).

Sri Lanka’s public transport was crippled Wednesday as buses ran out of diesel, officials said as the country’s foreign exchange crisis worsened with no dollars to import fuel.