Category: Local News

A 42-year-old woman who attempted suicide after throwing her 5-year-old son into the Kelani River from the Kadirana Bridge in Wattala was apprehended by locals residents in the area and handed over to the police.

There is a timely need to decentralize all public services at the district and divisional levels similar to the work-from-home concept, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says.

R.M.R Lenora stood in a snaking queue outside Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration Department headquarters for two days last week, hoping to get a passport and, with it, a chance to leave a country wilting under an economic crisis.

The Embassy of the United States of America announced today (June 15) that the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Board of Directors has approved $120 million in new loans to grow and support the Sri Lankan economy.

SLPP parliamentarian Sanath Nishantha and Moratuwa Mayor Samanlal Fernando have been granted bail today (June 15) by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court.

Shorter work weeks aimed at boosting worker productivity and happiness are catching on in parts of the world like Iceland and the United Kingdom.

64 Sri Lankans who were suspected to be attempting to illegally migrate from the country via sea routes, have been taken into the Navy custody this morning (June 15) during a special operation by the Sri Lanka Navy in the eastern seas.

SriLankan Airlines recorded a loss of Rs. 45,674 Million in 2021, revealed the latest report by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).

The representatives from the financial and legal advisory firms Lazard and Clifford Chance, hired by Sri Lanka for debt restructuring arrived on the island yesterday (June 14), Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

Maldivian Parliamentary Speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed has denied SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva’s claims that several countries have refused to assist Sri Lanka.

The US’ influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged the Quad nations to take a “more proactive role” in addressing Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis, while praising India’s role in providing humanitarian assistance to the government in the island nation to avoid a meltdown.

Six batches of rice are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka under China’s 500 million RMB grant to the island nation, the Embassy of China in Colombo said today (June 14).

One person was shot dead in Elakanda, Wattala today (June 14), said Sri Lanka Police.

The Adani Group today said it was “disappointed” as it reacted to a massive controversy over an energy project in Sri Lanka awarded to the group, after a Lankan official’s claim that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa acted under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal to declare Friday a holiday for the Public Sector.

U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung attended the signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sri Lankan Department of Agriculture on Monday (13), for a $27 million project that aims to double the milk production of Sri Lankan dairy farmers participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Food for Progress” initiative.