Bus fares will be increased by 30% and the minimum fare will be revised to Rs. 40 with effect from the 01st of July, the Private Bus Owners’ Association says.

An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued detailing the institutional and legal framework of Dhammika Perera who was sworn in as the Investment Promotion Minister.

Sri Lanka Navy arrested a multi-day fishing trawler in western seas off Negombo on last night (June 27) with 47 persons attempting to illegally migrate into Australia.

The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to a proposal to allow companies from oil producing nations to import fuel to the country and also be involved in the retail market.

The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers have granted its approval to launch a cargo ferry service between Kankesanthurai (KKS) and the Karaikal Port, and Port of Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu.

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera and Minister of Environment Ahamed Nazeer have left for Qatar this morning (June 28) to hold talks over the importation of fuel.

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers have approved the proposal to gazette the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution and to present it to the Parliament.

The Government of Sri Lanka said that only essential services are eligible to obtain fuel from midnight today (June 27) to the 10th of July.

The Sri Lanka Army, making great strides by throwing its full weight behind the government’s food security programme began its Stage 1 of Maize Cultivation Project this morning (June 27) at Niraviya Army Farm at Thambuttegama.

The visiting high-level delegation of officials representing the U.S. State Department and the Treasury Department met with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (June 27), the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung said.

The National People’s Power (NPP) says it is prepared to run the country, if the President and the Prime Minister are prepared to hand over the governance to them.

Troops in Sri Lanka handed tokens on Monday to people queueing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut in Colombo and public employees were asked to work from home.

Container transportation fees will be increased by 10% with effect from midnight today (June 27) in view of the increase in fuel prices, according to the All-Island United Container Transport Owners’ Association.

At least five persons have been injured and hospitalised after a bus collided with a group of people who were waiting in a fuel queue near a fuel station at Uraniya in Batticaloa this morning (June 27).

Sri Lanka is sending two ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel – one of the necessities that the Indian ocean island nation has almost run out of amid its ongoing economic crisis.

54 persons who attempted to migrate to Australia illegally were taken into custody by the Sri Lanka Navy in Batticaloa, Palaminmadu area.