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Sri Lanka leader sacks two cabinet ministers as economic crisis bites

President Rajapaksa has removed Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila and Industries Minister Wimal Weerawansa.

March 3, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka President sacks energy minister

Minister Udaya Gammanpila replaced with Gamini Lokuge

March 3, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lankan expats, students leaving Ukraine asked to carry documents, supplies

Expats, students asked to bring adequate supply of food, water and medicines due to long waiting times at the border

March 3, 2022 2 min read

Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives support Ukraine in UN vote on Russia invasion as Sri Lanka abstains

Most of East Asia, Western Europe, most former East Europe, North and South America, island states vote for Ukraine

March 3, 2022 2 min read
Sri Lanka court orders BOI not to bar recyclers who refused irregular payments

Recyclers said they could not make payments that did not go the BoI or the consolidated fund

Lal Kantha says ready for armed struggle if needed, has advice for NPP

The former MP said that, since 1931, Sri Lankans have been changing governments through universal franchise.

Sri Lanka appoints Presidential Commission on bondscam

Supreme Court judges K T Chithrasiri, PS Jayawardena and retired Deputy Auditor General K. Velupillai have been appointe...

January 27, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Supreme Court summons MPs over bond probe

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has summoned members of parliament who subscribed to a committee report on the controversial C...

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January 27, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka defends controversial land deal; tax breaks to businessman

Sri Lanka's Development Strategies Ministry had defended a land deal and an extended tax holiday to a controversial inve...

January 27, 2017 7 min read

Sri Lanka corruption worsens in 2016: Transparency Index

Sri Lanka has slipped 12 places to 95 among 177 countries that have been ranked on perceived corruption in the state sec...

January 26, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka cannot give state land at 100-rupees to Ceylon Steel magnate: Rajitha

Sri Lanka cannot give land at 100 rupees an acre to controversial businessman, Nandana Lokuvithana Health Minister Rajit...

January 26, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka President says divine help brought rain

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena credited his spiritual drive for bringining heavy rains that effectively ended ...

January 26, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka central bank blocks distribution Perpetual Treasuries assets: Ministers

Sri Lanka's central bank has placed controls on distributing assets of Perpetual Treasuries so that they can be taken ba...

January 26, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka president overrules PM on bond probe

President Maithripala Sirisena Wednesday announced overruling Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over the Central Bank ...

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January 25, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka foreign ministry opens consular office in north

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it will open a Regional Consular Office in nort...

January 25, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Attorney General orders criminal probe on bondscam: Eran

Sri Lanka's Attorney General has asked police criminal investigation department to start a criminal probe on alleged fra...

January 25, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka state broadcaster, military to get some VOA transmitting assets

Sri Lanka's state-run Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), and the military will get some equipment from a closed ...

January 19, 2017 1 min read

Another chink in Sri Lanka's coalition

Sri Lanka's coalition government on Monday suffered another setback with one of its lawmakers, Buddhist monk Athuraliye ...

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January 16, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka bans 'choon' in three-wheel crackdown

The government's latest move to safeguard tuk-tuk passengers and other road users include the banning of musical tunes p...

January 14, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka officials off the noose under new dress code

President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday overturned a 26-year-old decree that made it mandatory for top bureaucrats to w...

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January 9, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka minister visits policemen injured during anti-China protests

Sri Lanka's law and order minister visited policemen injured during protest during the opening of an industrial zone in ...

January 8, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka aims at eco-friendly growth by 2030; expand middle class

Sri Lanka wants to go forward protecting the environment providing more opportunities for people to enter the middle cla...

January 2, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's political risks set to rise in New Year

Sri Lanka's President has urged unity to overcome global economic challenges in 2017 and made tackling poverty his new y...

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January 1, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka's bleak political outlook in 2017

Sri Lanka's President and Prime Minister mark two years of their "unity" government in January with their uneasy coaliti...

December 31, 2016 4 min read

Rajapaksa opposes Sri Lanka land for Chinese investment

Sri Lanka's former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday criticised a government plan to grant 15,000 acres for Chinese i...

December 30, 2016 3 min read

Pope says God in shadows at Christmas; needs of migrants, refugees ignored

Pope Francis said on Saturday that Christmas had been "taken hostage" by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shado...

December 25, 2016 3 min read