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Sri Lanka President's policy direction correct, but could be a cuckoo egg: Harsha

Koel egg in a crows net

August 31, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka PM seeks ideas for new oversight committees amid COPE, COPA controversy

Parties asked to give proposals by August 31

August 30, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka to deploy money laundering law against public amid forex trouble

Expat workers blamed for engaging in essential and non-essential imports

August 29, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka Customs seizes Rs.16 mln worth illegal cigarettes; five arrested

Suspects attempted to go through Green Channel - Customs

August 27, 2022 1 min read
Sri Lanka heads for spy shakeup

Investigations into the Easter Sunday blasts have resumed

Sri Lanka’s new leader urged to find Rajapaksa's stashed money in Uganda

Dissanayake, JVP have accused Rajapaksa of hiding stashed money in foreign countries

Ceylon Chamber forum on new Sri Lanka income tax law

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will hold a seminar on Sri Lanka’s new ‘Inland Revenue Act’, with Sta...

September 9, 2017 1 min read

Watch dogs fight over Sri Lanka land mark jailing

Sri Lanka jailing the country's top civil servant on a criminal misappropriation charge has sparked a battle among watch...

September 7, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka jails Rajapaksa's top aide

ECONOMYNEXT - The Colombo High Court today jailed top civil servant Lalith Weeratunga for three years making him the fir...

September 7, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Perpetual caught in evidence tampering, perjury controversy: report

Sri Lanka's Perpetual Treasuries, a primary dealer under probe for securities fraud has become embroiled in evidence tam...

September 6, 2017 2 min read

Controversy over Sri Lanka's Perpetual Treasuries tampering evidence: report

Sri Lanka's Perpetual Treasuries, a primary dealer at the centre of a massive securities scam has tampered with evidence...

August 30, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka to regulate Ayurveda, improve research

Sri Lanka will introduced legislation to upgrade the Ayurveda department, ensure minimum standards of traditional healin...

August 14, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka revenue bill: offending sections

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has decided that the following sections of a inland revenue bill is inconsistent with the cons...

August 4, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka minister says did not know apartment lease was paid by Perpetual

Sri Lanka's ex-finance minister Ravi Karunanayake said he did not know Perpetual Treasuries group paid the lease of an a...

August 2, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka ex-CB Governor forced EPF boss to appoint Saman Kumara: report

Sri Lanka's ex-Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran had pressured the head of a retirement fund to appoint a dealer wi...

August 1, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka ex-finance minister: 'I have nothing to hide'

Sri Lanka's ex-Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said he will provide answers to a Presidential Commission probing a co...

July 28, 2017 2 min read
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Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers remain a terrorist group: EU

ECONOMYNEXT – The European Union continues to consider Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

July 27, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka arrests oil workers as troops restore supplies

Sri Lanka arrested dozens of striking oil workers as the military moved into to restore supplies and end fuel shortages ...

July 26, 2017 2 min read

PT paid Sri Lanka finance minister’s rent: bond probe

ECONOMYNEXT - The controversial primary dealership in state securities, Perpetual Treasuries, paid the then Finance mini...

July 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka slams police over abduction bid

Sri Lanka's police faced censure on Friday over an attempt to "abduct" a student activist, a tactic widely used against ...

July 21, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka university faces animal cruelty charge

A Sri Lankan university was fending off allegations of animal cruelty Monday after being accused of inhumanely killing d...

July 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka legislator in court against planned Arcellor Mittal deal

A Sri Lankan legislator has gone to court over a planned deal with France's Arcellor Mittal to build steel houses for wa...

July 17, 2017 2 min read

Ranatunga seeks probe into 2011 Sri Lanka World Cup defeat

Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga has demanded an investigation into the country's 2011 World Cup final defeat b...

July 15, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka fails to investigate war crimes: UN expert

AFP - Sri Lanka has failed to deliver on its international commitments to prosecute government troops and Tamil rebels f...

July 14, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka central bank bond dealer's assets revealed: reports

Saman Kumara, a central bank securities trader who was involved in controversial deals with Perpetual Treasuries, a bond...

July 13, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's EPF manager interdicted, questioned by police

Saman Kumara, a senior fund manager at Sri Lanka's Employees Provident Fund (managed by the Central Bank), had been inte...

July 12, 2017 1 min read