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Sri Lanka Easter Sunday suspect hacked to death; opposition leader demands answers

"What is happening in the country? Isn't this lawlessness?"

November 29, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka president warns against unlawful anti-government protests

President says there is a move to initiate another round of protests

November 23, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka campaign finance bill to limit election spending, bare all: Minister

The election commission to have the power to terminate the seat of a candidate that exceeds the limit

November 23, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka denies registration to UAE, Oman bound workers on visit visas, some housemaids

We stopped registering persons who go to the above countries on tourist visas

November 22, 2022 3 min read
Sri Lanka seeks time from court to study Adani wind power deal: Minister

After the court action is over, we can take these decisions

China says supporting Sri Lanka crackdown on cyber rackets involving nationals

Sri Lanka police arrested over 100 Chinese alleged to have involved in online financial scams

Sri Lanka to tighten controls over NGOs

Sri Lanka is to tighten controls over charities and civil society organizations, through changes to a 1980 law requiring...

February 22, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka hopes to get out of FATF red flag by October: CB Governor

Sri Lanka is rolling out an action plan to remove a red flag placed by a global anti-laundering body, and is expecting t...

February 15, 2018 3 min read

Maldives should immediately free arrested judges: Amnesty International

Amnesty International, an international rights body, has demanded that Maldives immediately free arrested Supreme Court ...

February 6, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka to bring back Weeratunga from Dubai

Sri Lanka's police will travel to escort back home the fugitive former diplomat, Udayanga Weeratunga, to face charges of...

February 5, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka remands Perpetual Treasuries bosses till Feb 16

A court in Sri Lanka has remanded key suspects in a securities scan involving Sri Lanka's central bank, where ex-Central...

February 5, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka arrests bondscam suspects; ex-CB Governor asked report to police

Sri Lanka's ex-CB Governor Arjuna Mahendran has been asked to report to criminal investigators after his son-in-law Arju...

February 5, 2018 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines Presidential commission to probe, fraud, nepotism, current and ex-CEOs

President Maithripal Sirisena had appointed a commission of inquiry headed by ex Supreme Court Judge Anil Gooneratne to ...

February 3, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka sets up special courts for Rajapakse-era graft

Sri Lanka is to set up special courts to investigate charges of corruption amounting to billions of dollars under former...

January 31, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka to change graft laws as President fast-tracks bond commission advice

Sri Lanka's is changing the country's bribery laws officials had said at a meeting called President Maithripala Sirisen...

January 29, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka freezes bank accounts of Perpetual group firms over securities scam: report

Sri Lanka's central bank has frozen bank of accounts of Perpetual group of Arjun Aloysius to prevent the siphoning off o...

January 28, 2018 2 min read
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Sri Lanka bondscam report sections held back for investigations: President

Some annexures of a bondscam report has been held back due to help ongoing investigations, President Maithripala Sirisen...

January 24, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka female liquor ban violates international legal obligations: CPA

ECONOMYNEXT - Two fundamental rights petitions have been filed challenging the ban by Sri Lanka’s government on w...

January 23, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka President, unconstitutional order on alcohol has little effect women: think tank

A sexist and discriminatory move by President Maithripala Sirisena to ban women from buying has no effect in law, though...

January 22, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka police lose machine gun as elephants charge

Sri Lankan police who were charged by elephants as they staked out a cannabis farm dropped an automatic rifle as they ra...

January 22, 2018 1 min read

US helps Sri Lanka combat sex-trafficking, forced labour

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will get 183 million rupees (1.2 million US dollars) from the US government to fight forced labo...

January 20, 2018 6 min read

Sri Lanka ban on women buying liquor unconstitutional: Verité Research

ECONOMYNEXT – A decision by Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers to reimpose a ban on women buying liquor is u...

January 19, 2018 2 min read

Fundamental Rights petition against liquor ban on Sri Lanka women

ECONOMYNEXT – Women activists have filed a Fundamental Rights petition in Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court saying...

January 18, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka re-imposes ban on women buying alcohol after sexist opposition

Sri Lanka's finance ministry has withdrawn a gazette notice that ended a discriminatory ban on women after a male-domina...

January 18, 2018 1 min read

Rajapaksa era culture and ethos, EPF scams helped Sri Lanka bond frauds: Commission

The 'politicization' of Sri Lanka's central bank , the "corporate culture and ethos" coming from the Rajapaksa regime an...

January 18, 2018 8 min read

Sri Lanka bond commission raises red flag over EPF stock market scams

A presidential commission of inquiry into Sri Lanka's largest securities fraud involving rigged bond auctions in 2015 an...

January 18, 2018 2 min read