Category: Local News

Sri Lanka’s central bank said on Wednesday the country was committed to honouring all forthcoming debt obligations, adding that the island nation was not on the verge of a sovereign default.

The overseas travel ban imposed on Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen in relation to the case being heard over the death of a 16-year-old girl, has been temporarily lifted.

The church worker, Francis Munindran who was under detention orders in connection with the incident in which a hand grenade was found inside All Saints’ Church in Borella, has been released.

The European Union (EU) strongly urged Sri Lanka to lift forthwith import restrictions preventing many European products from entering its market.

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has requested the government to increase fuel prices.

Sri Lankans remit around US $ 7.5 billion annually to Sri Lanka but due to some of them channeling these remittances through unauthorized money schemes, Sri Lanka loses US$ 2 billion of these funds.

Cabinet Spokesman Dullas Alahapperuma said roughly 474,000 street lights are installed across the country, with 18,000 street lights in Colombo alone requiring 26 MW to illuminate.

The Agreement signed between Sri Lanka and India to develop the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm was tabled in Parliament by Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila today (February 08).

The Special Task Force (STF) of Police has arrested a woman known as Sumedha Samanmali alias ‘Poosi’, the wife of drug trafficker ‘Army Indika’ with 1kgs (1,064g of heroin) of heroin at Hospital Road in Kalubowila last evening (February 07).

SJB Colombo District MP Dr. Harsha De Silva told the media yesterday that the Surcharge Tax Bill contained provisions applicable to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF).

Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage says that if former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former President Maithripala Sirisena were in power while the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, the country would have faced a great disaster.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed officials to take necessary steps to release the containers containing essential items in the custody of the Customs.

Three persons have died after being buried under a mound of earth in Madawala, Wattegama.

The nine suspects arrested in connection with the attack on medical faculty students in Ragama, including MP Arundika Fernando’s son, have been granted bail by the Wattala Magistrate’s Court today (February 07).

Pakistan’s United Nations (UN) Ambassador Munir Akram told a virtual event marking Sri Lanka’s 74th independence anniversary that the Colombo-Islamabad relationship is contributing to peace and stability in the South Asian region.

The Court of Appeal today (February 07) issued directives to the Puttalam High Court to release Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah on bail.