Bangladesh has extended the repayment period of Sri Lanka’s $200 million loan it had given by six more months.

The new Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) proposed by the Sri Lankan Government, designed to replace the existing Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) of 1979, threatens to further exacerbate restrictions on the right to assembly and gravely curtail freedom of expression and press freedom, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said in a statement.

In response to the publication of the draft text of the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act by the Sri Lankan government, Amnesty International (AI) Asia Advocacy Director Carolyn Nash said that Biden- administration need to send a clear message to President Ranil Wickremesinghe that this law must be overhauled entirely or scrapped altogether.

State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya was admitted to the Karawanella Base Hospital with minor injuries after his vehicle skidded off the road and crashed against a parapet wall at Karawanella area of Ruwanwella on the Kegalle – Avissawella main road.

Sri Lanka makes significant progress in restructuring its debt and solving the economic crisis at the 2023 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.

The Mumbai Police have arrested two foreigners for allegedly swapping their boarding passes at the airport to travel to two different countries, the news agency PTI reported on Thursday.

A committee of Sri Lanka’s international private creditors sent its first debt rework proposal to the country’s authorities regarding over $12 billion in bonds outstanding, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Wenbin has reaffirmed their commitment towards Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process.

Japan, India and France on Thursday announced a common platform for talks among bilateral creditors to coordinate restructuring of Sri Lanka’s debt, a move they hope would serve as a model for solving the debt woes of middle-income economies.

Sri Lanka’s Department of Government Printing has stopped all printing processes related to the 2023 Local Government (LG) election.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have released their messages for Sinhala and Tamil New Year.

The United States District Court in the Southern District of New York has set dates to hear the lawsuit filed by Hamilton Reserve Bank seeking payment of defaulted International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs) on April 20, following a failed attempt to get the case dismissed by the Sri Lankan government.

Japan, France and India will announce a new platform for creditors to coordinate restructuring of Sri Lanka’s debt, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Wednesday, adding it would be “very nice” if China were to join the effort.

High Commissioner of the Republic of Maldives to Sri Lanka H.E. Ali Faiz paid a courtesy call on the State Minister of Defence in Sri Lanka Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at the State Ministry of Defence in Colombo today (April 12).

Japan, India and France are scheduled to hold a press briefing on Thursday (13 April) to announce the launch of the debt restructuring negotiation process on Sri Lanka.