After a year of visible strain in its ties with Colombo, New Delhi may finally have some reason for cheer. In a month’s time, Sri Lanka will ink the long-dragging deal with India to jointly develop the Trincomalee oil tank farms – a coveted project that has remained controversial for decades.

Sri Lanka’s Trade Minister Bandula Gunwardena said measures will be taken to ensure the release of cargo containers with essential goods held at the Colombo Port by next week.

Former President Maithripala Sirisena says the government has mixed up economic, political and international issues.

The Registrar General’s Department has issued a circular making a Security Clearance Report mandatory in the event of a marriage between a Sri Lankan citizen and a foreigner.

The JVP last week warned of an imminent food shortage in the country soon and said that the crisis was nothing but a ‘Gotabaya-made disaster.’

Sri Lanka is lurching towards serious power shortages next year entailing scheduled power cuts with the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) alerting the Government this week to its latest crisis: The “critical fuel situation for thermal power generation” has been exacerbated by the shortage of dollars to import furnace oil.

A two minute silence will be observed from 9.25 a.m. to 9.27 a.m. today 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 Prime Minister, with his wife, has gone to pay homage to Tirupati after raising the prices of essential commodities, including gas and fuel and throwing the masses into disaster, says JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva.

Christmas Messages from Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa.

Four police officers were killed in a shooting at the Thirukkovil police station carried out by a police sergeant attached to the police station at around 10:00 PM last night (December 24).

A poultry farm located at the Pallegama area in Pannala has been gutted in a fire killing more than 3000 chickens that erupted at around 3:00 am today (December 24).

The Railway Station Masters Association has suspended the issuance of train tickets from midnight yesterday (December 23).

Around 100 to 200 tonnes of Laugfs Gas will be released to the local market in the next two days, K. M. Wegapitiya, the Chairman of Laugfs Gas said on Friday (December 24).

The Environment Ministry will launch a programme under the theme ‘Paperless Parliament’ to reduce the use of paper in Parliament.

In a bold move, a factory in Pakistan’s Sialkot has hired another Sri Lankan national in place of his slain compatriot who was lynched earlier this month by supporters of a radical Islamist party on the allegations of blasphemy.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka wishes to inform the general public that the measures being taken at present will ensure that by the end of 2021 official reserves will remain above US dollars 3 billion.