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Major General Sanjaya Wanasinghe has been appointed as the new Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Health Ministry to expedite the approval process for drugs endorsed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

An employee attached to the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has died due to a bacterial infection believed to have entered via the patient’s cannula.

Sinopec Energy Lanka (Pvt) Limited and the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) signed an agreement today (July 14) to operate and set up fuel stations for distribution in Sri Lanka.

The body of the 32-year-old Danish woman who had reportedly gone missing since July 10 while hiking on the Alagalla mountain range in Kadugannawa, Sri Lanka has been found today (July 14).

The price of a 50 kg bundle of Muriate of Potash (MOP) fertilizer will be reduced by Rs. 1,000 from tomorrow (July 15), Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said.

Swiss Embassy employee Garnier Banister Francis was today (July 14) sentenced to two-years imprisonment suspended for five years by the Colombo High Court.

Sri Lanka Government has granted no-pay leave for government officials to be spent in or out of the country without affecting seniority or pensions.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the importance of financial discipline in nation-building and announced plans to promptly introduce formal measures to control public expenditure and generate new government revenue.

All necessary measures will be taken to reduce the tax burden currently imposed on the people as soon as possible, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya assured.

A 21-year-old girl named Chamodi Sandeepani Madushika Jayaratne, who was admitted to the Peradeniya teaching hospital on Wednesday (July 12) morning with a complaint of abdominal pain, died after being given two injections.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has not discussed any plans for a digital services tax with the Sri Lankan authorities in the current program.

Sri Lanka Government has spent Rs. 144 billion on welfare benefits last year and as per the agreements with the IMF and World Bank Sri Lanka had agreed to spend a minimum of Rs. 187 billion annually on welfare benefits, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said.