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A group of 151 Sri Lankan refugees who were rescued after their boat suffered a mechanical issue and was drifting in the high seas and later detained in Vietnam were deported back to the country after they agreed to return to Sri Lanka.

It is unacceptable to threaten the people with power cuts and take measures to increase electricity tariffs, Parliamentarian Patali Champika Ranawaka said.

Only those who could survive this crisis are the ones who could make earnings in foreign currency, Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe recently said.

About 27 migrants from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Eritrea and Pakistan were caught by Romanian’s Arad police after they tried to cross the border illegally into Hungary, hiding inside two trucks loaded with textile fabrics and metal rods.

Thilini Priyamali, who was in remand custody over financial fraud, was released from prison today (December 27) after fulfilling her bail conditions, Prisons Commissioner General and Spokesman Chandana Ekanayake said.

When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach.

Sri Lanka was ranked 7th among the 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the world, the latest World Bank assessment said.

Sri Lanka has deported 1,955 foreign nationals based on various charges between 2018 and 2021.

The fuel consumption in Sri Lanka has plunged by 50 percent in the last months of 2022, compared to the first few months of the year, the state-owned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said on Monday.

Four people were arrested today (December 26) for allegedly stabbing social media activist Dilan Senanayake on the 14th of December 2022.

Former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and four of his family members left for the United States this morning (December 26), airport sources said.

A two minute silence will be observed from 9:25 AM to 9:27 AM today (December 26) islandwide, as a mark of respect to those who lost their lives in the tsunami disaster that hit the coastal belt of Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.

The train services from Kandy have been suspended as the Kandy railway station is flooded due to heavy rains, the Department of Railways announced.

It is appropriate to recall the appeal of His Holiness Pope Francis for a humble Christmas this year, with the savings from reduced spending on gifts to be donated to the needy and value humanity, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in his Christmas message.

The Government of Sri Lanka will consider further easing existing import restrictions, State Minister for Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said.