Sri Lanka could lose access to global debt markets if a new government shifts away from the country’s current fiscal policy that’s aimed at shoring up the economy and managing inflation, a central bank official said on Friday.

UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa, MP, yesterday, reiterated that the formation of the proposed UNP-led National Democratic Front (NDF) for the 2019 presidential poll should be preceded by the naming of its presidential candidate.

The Colombo High Court today issued a warrant for the arrest of former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran who is the first suspect in the bond scam case.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is conducting a separate investigation on Rs 90 million worth of assets of Dr. Shihabdeen Mohamed Shafi of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekara disclosed yesterday.

More than 1,000 flights had been canceled during May, 2019 following the Easter Sunday terror attacks, State Minister of Transportation and Civil Aviation Ashoka Abeysinghe told Parliament, yesterday.

The Attorney General indicted former MP Sajin Vas Gunawardana at the Colombo High Court for laundering money of over 306 million rupees.

People need not fear former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and he would not become a strict leader, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organiser Basil Rajapaksa said today.

Sri Lanka on Wednesday charged two army spies for a decade-old serious assault of a newspaper editor in the wake of the shock assassination of high-profile anti-establishment journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the government must lay the platform for a new revolution in the next five years.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has arrived in Cambodia on a visit to expand the countries’ cooperation in economic, trade, tourism and cultural fields.

The Acting OIC of Welamboda Police has been interdicted for deciding to return 76 machete knives and 16 axes that were taken into custody from a mosque, the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Minister Sajith Premadasa have held crisis talks, amidst a major rift within the United National Party over the proposed new alliance and the next Presidential Candidate.

Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), MP Udaya Gammanpila, on 4 August, addressed a conference organised by ‘STOP USA’, in Kandy, regarding the alleged intervention of the United States.

A State Intelligence Service (SIS) report presented in November 2016 didn’t identify the National Thawheed Jamath (NTJ) as an organization engaging in terrorist activities but as an entity promoting extremist religious views, former Law, Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayaka told the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to probe the Easter Sunday terror attacks yesterday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, yesterday, said that the entire government and Cabinet of ministers were responsible for the mistakes and lapses that permitted the Easter Sunday terror attacks.