There are no military agreements with China and there won’t be any military agreements, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe said during a media interview with ‘France 24’ website on Monday (June 26).

Sri Lanka and China have been long standing friends, and the benefits have been reciprocal, says MP Namal Rajapaksa, in an interview during his visit to Beijing.

Social activist Piyath Nikeshala was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this evening (June 26).

The Court of Appeal has quashed the summons issued by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court on Senior DIG Deshbandu Thennakoon to appear before courts as a suspect over the Rs. 17.8 million in cash found at the President’s House when protestors stormed the building on July 09, 2022.

Four individuals have been injured in a shooting incident in the Dippitigoda area in Kelaniya yesterday (June 25), Police said.

Acting Defence Minister of Sri Lanka, Premitha Bandara Tennakoon attended the final day proceedings of the National Industrial Exhibition at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) today (June 25).

Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration says that 911,689 passports were issued in 2022, according to the annual performance report issued recently.

Sri Lanka Police has increased the reward money amount offered through the Police reward scheme for information leading to the successful arrest of illegal firearms and hand grenades, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickramaratne announced on Saturday (June 24).

Sri Lanka is set to start bartering tea to Iran next month in lieu of $250 million owed for oil, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Friday, as the crisis-hit country tries to lift sales to a key market and protect its forex reserves.

A wanted gunman has died in a shootout early this morning (June 24) with the Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel who were trying to arrest him.

Series of newly built infrastructure facilities at Sri Lanka’s General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) was opened today (June 23).

Professor Manjula Fernando has been appointed as the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL).

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen on Thursday (June 22) on the sidelines of the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.

The Government of Sri Lanka has declared a special bank holiday on June 30, 2023.