Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday, vowing to deepen bilateral pragmatic cooperation within the Belt and Road framework.

The Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy states that power cuts for a period of three and a half hours daily will be imposed owing to the ongoing power crisis.

President Maithripala Sirisena who is in India to participate BRICS Outreach Summit held bilateral discussion with the Indian Premier Narendra Modi at the Taj Exotica Hotel in Goa yesterday (Oct. 16).

Public has been urged to use electricity sparingly and possible power cuts in the future due to tripping at the Norochcholai coal power plant, the Ceylon Electricity Board says.

Algerian billionaire Issad Rebrab plans to invest more than $150 million in the construction of a sugar refinery in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka according to the Daily News.

President Maithripala Sirisena will leave for India tomorrow (Oct. 15) to attend the BRICS Outreach Summit to be held in Goa, India from 15th to 16th October.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will leave for Brussels, Belgium tomorrow(16th Oct.) for high level discussions with EU to obtain the GSP Plus relief back to Sri Lanka.

A retired army officer has committed suicide by hanging himself at his resident in Karandupana, Kegalle.

The disputed land in Malwana which was said to have been owned by former Minister Basil Rajapaksa will be put up for auction.

While declining to comment on the views expressed by President Maithripala Sirisena on the FCID at a function held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on Wednesday

The Moragahakanda Kalu Ganga Multi- purpose Development Project will be vested with the public by the year 2018

A former Sri Lankan Supreme Court judge has been sworn-in as a new Supreme Court judge in Suva.

More focus should be placed on the current situation, with regard to human rights and minority issues, rather than dwelling on the past, the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues of the United Nations Human Rights Council Rita Izsák-Ndiaye has said.

Recent allegations on certain sugar and ethanol sales by Lanka Sugar Company are unfound as due procedures have been followed, said the Secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce T.M.K.B. Tennakoon.