The International Monetary Fund will resume discussions with Sri Lanka in February for further disbursal of part of a $1.5 billion loan, the lender said, after a political crisis led to talks being delayed by three months.

Sri Lanka and the Philippines will sign six Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) enhancing bilateral ties in many fields including the economic, cultural and political during President Maithripala’s visit in Manila today.

The International Monetary Fund says it will continue to support the government’s economic reform agenda.

A total of 120 houses built in Sri Lanka with Emirati aid have been given to displaced families in the north.

Sri Lanka is considering an offer from Bank of China (601988.SS) for a loan of $300 million, which could be raised to $1 billion, to help it meet repayments in coming months, junior finance minister Eran Wickramaratne told Reuters on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena left for Philippines on a five-day state visit today.

The Cabinet of Ministers yesterday approved a proposal made by President Maithripala Sirisena to proclaim the Buddhist Scripture Tripitaka which was declared as a National Heritage recently as a World Heritage.

I am extremely happy to convey my greetings to all the Hindus across the world celebrating Thai Pongal, the festival that expresses gratitude to the Sun God, the supreme provider of light, warmth, water and wind essential for agriculture, the lifeline to human sustenance, states President Maithripala Sirisena in in his Thai Pongal message.

Colombo in Sri Lanka has been named the ‘must-photograph’ travel destination of 2019, in a study.

President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) electoral organisers to prepare for a Provincial Council Election, which will probably come before a Presidential Election.

Giving the clearest indication yet of his intention to run in the upcoming Presidential elections, former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said he is ready to take up the challenge when polls are called, possibly towards the end of 2019.

Two persons have been killed in a shooting that took place at around 3.30 pm today (13) near the Aiyyan Sapirimale Kovil in the Hekitta road in Wattala.

United People’s Freedom Alliance Parliamentarian Kanchana Wijesekera says Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa will determine the next Presidential candidate from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna camp.

Minister Mangala Samaraweera left for Washington on Friday to get the IMF External Fund Facility (EFF) back on track, the Finance Ministry said.

Australian cannabis producer Creso Pharma has expanded into the Sri Lankan market by signing a binding letter of intent with distributor Ceyoka Health.

The number of workers leaving Sri Lanka to take up jobs as housemaids in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the Far East has soared by more than 16 percent in the past year.