Category: Local News

President Maitripala Sirisena has ordered that the Committee on Economic Management, headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe be disbanded and the functions of that Committee be vested in the Cabinet of Ministers

Four shops and a place of religious worship were damaged and three people injured in a clash between two groups in Ampara town…

Even countries with relatively low levels of absolute debt may face repayment challenges if there are weaknesses in its economic structures and debt management institutions.

An Egyptian twenty-two-year old driver is being held in custody for four days over charges of killing a 54-year-old Sri Lankan maid who worked in Egypt after a love affair had transpired between them.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took over the Ministry of Law and Order for a short period of two weeks only.

UNP State Minister Range Bandara yesterday said a no-faith motion would be brought against the party leadership with the support of other UNP MPs, if the party leadership was not changed.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a three-member committee of ministers to examine ways of expediting cases on corruption and fraud, the PM’s Office said.

President Maithripala Sirisena signed the special condolence book to mark the death of the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Ms. Una McCauley at the United Nations Office in Sri Lanka.

A Cabinet reshuffle wouldn’t do any good to the country under an inefficient government, said former President Mahinda Rajapaksa responding to media in Kandy, yesterday (25).

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as the new Cabinet Minister of Law and Order, during the Cabinet reshuffle currently underway at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.

The World Bank praises the public health service in Sri Lanka by saying that There are few if any other low or middle-income countries that have public health service like in Sri Lanka

Perpetual Treasuries Limited’s Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena, who are under remand custody over the Central Bank bond scam, haVE been admitted to be the Prison Hospital.

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) wishes to notify the general public that fabricated reports are currently being circulated on various communication platforms, of a possible fuel shortage in the country.

The Sri Lankan rupee ended slightly firmer on Friday in dull trade as banks’ dollar selling on remittance inflows surpassed the importer greenback demand, dealers said.

Drug kingpin Dadallage Manju alias D. Manju was killed during a shoot out with the Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel in Wattala a short while ago, the Police said.

INTERPOL had issued a ‘Red Warrant’ on former Sri Lankan Envoy to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga, naming him as a fugitive wanted by the Sri Lankan authorities, Police Media Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara announced.