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Sri Lanka’s finance minister said Tuesday the island faces a “dangerous foreign exchange crisis” but the government denied it would seek an international bailout.

The Finance Bill which was debated in Parliament today (07) has been passed with amendments by a majority vote.

The government has decided to impose an import tax of Rs. 40 on Big Onions with effect from today (07), Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage stated.

The Peradeniya University has been ranked among the best 500 Universities in the world according to The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022.

Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have been advised not to over-exert and do strenuous exercises They just need to be careful for a few weeks before they can return back to their normal lives…

180 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 05, increasing the death toll to 10,320.

The Proclamation on the Emergency Regulations for the Supply of Essential Foods enacted by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was passed by a majority of 81 votes in Parliament today (06).

Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen, his wife and the father-in-law were further remanded until September 17 over the case of a teenage domestic worker who died of burn injuries while serving the Bathiudeen household.

Sri Lanka has received another consignment of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine today (06).

The JVP yesterday said that it would vote in Parliament against both the Proclamation of the emergency regulations by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (06) and the Finance Bill tomorrow (07).

Veteran singer, musician and leader of the popular band ‘Gypsies’, Sunil Perera has passed away at the age of 68.

189 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 04, increasing the death toll to 10,140.

India has sent about 150 tonnes more oxygen to Sri Lanka to help the island nation combat the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sri Lanka will cooperate with New Zealand’s investigation into a knife rampage by an Islamic State-inspired assailant from the South Asian nation, authorities said Saturday.

People are dying in their hundreds daily owing to the blunders of the government which did not listen to the experts, the JVP said on Thursday.

A shortage of US dollars has hit LPG (liquid petroleum gas) and milk powder importers, who are finding it difficult to honour payments to suppliers.