Sri Lanka has received emergency funding of USD 10 million from the World Bank for purchasing medicinal drugs, the Ministry of Health has said.

Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that if Sri Lanka wants some form of stability, the Prime Minister and the Government must resign paving the way for a new administration.

At least 300 kg of heroin and 25 kg of Methamphetamine, also known as ICE, were taken into custody by the Sri Lanka Navy during a search operation conducted off the Southern coast.

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said the Government is ready to hold discussions with the protesting youth at Galle Face Green.

Sri Lanka warned of an unprecedented default and halted payments on foreign debt, an extraordinary step taken to preserve its dwindling dollar stockpile for essential food and fuel imports.

Sri Lanka will temporarily suspend foreign debt payments to avoid a hard default, the central bank governor said on Tuesday, with its limited foreign reserves required for imports of essential items such as fuel.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) claims state and private hospitals are facing shortages of 237 medicinal drugs at present.

Former Prime Minister and United National Parliamentarian Ranil Wickremesinghe warned that Sri Lanka could run out of fuel in the second week of May or later in the month, after the current Indian credit line is exhausted, plunging the country further into darkness and economic abyss.

I came to serve the people and not any politician, newly appointed Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said at his first media briefing held at the Central Bank Head Office in Colombo after assuming duties last Friday.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that though all the parties represented in Parliament were urged to come forward to help resolve the current economic crisis in the country, no one has come forward.

Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne today (April 11) refuted reports of an alleged National Security Council (NSC) meeting that was convened over the unrest in Mirihana.

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is due to address the nation today at 7:30 PM (April 11), his office said.

A person who was waiting in line to get diesel at a filling station in the Hiniduma – Thawalama area in Galle has died this morning (April 11).

The Sri Lankan rupee has depreciated to the lowest value against the US dollar in history today (April 11).

JVP women’s wing, Women for Rights, yesterday (April 10) said that if the government continued to cling on to power its leaders should be ready to face the fate suffered by despot rulers such as Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.

Former Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe says before sending the present group of Parliamentarians home, it is imperative to amend the country’s Constitution.