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Sri Lanka stock index down as investors await clarity on economic front

Investor sentiment dented by economic worries

February 15, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka stock index extends losses; ends near 6-week low

Sri Lanka stocks dropped for the second day erasing 162 billion market capitalization.

February 9, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka to import 400,000 rapid antigen test kits to meet shortage

"For that we only need a very limited number of test kits and that is being done using a very organised system."

February 9, 2022 2 min read

Japan gives Sri Lanka counter-terror surveillance vehicles, drug analyzers

Japan has also given 200 million yen worth of equipment to counter illegal drugs

February 8, 2022 1 min read
Sri Lanka gets Malaysian nod for 10,000 security guard jobs

"We are working towards achieving the target of earning one billion dollars as monthly foreign remittance"

1,000 tonne crane unloaded at Sri Lanka's China backed port

he equipment by road in two days to Mannar for assembly, where the wind turbines are being erected.

Sri Lanka's plans to resume executions major setback for human rights - Human Rights Watch

Calling for a halt to Sri Lanka's plans on resuming the death penalty, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday said that ...

July 1, 2019 3 min read

Bomb-hit Zion church will be repaired by Christmas

The Sri Lanka Army which is reconstructing the Zion Evangelical Church in Batticaloa is saying that the job will be done...

June 30, 2019 2 min read

CPA wants Mahanayake's speech investigated

June 29, 2019 1 min read

Muslim traders back at Wennppuwa fair

Muslim traders will be welcomed back at the Wennappuwa weekly fair from Monday after the local Magistrate accepted a pol...

June 28, 2019 1 min read

‘80 percent of the Easter Sunday victims are compensated - MP Kavinda

UNP MP Kavinda Jayawardena says that the Government has compensated more than 80 per cent of the people who were affecte...

June 28, 2019 1 min read

United Nations concerned about growing hate speech in Sri Lanka

The top United Nations official in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer, is expressing concern about the growing number of “inciden...

June 28, 2019 2 min read

Police and forces dealing with issues efficiently - Karu

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is saying that the Sri Lanka Police is facing grave new challenges and dealing with them efficie...

June 28, 2019 2 min read

South African President in Sri Lanka

President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa made a brief visit to Sri Lanka today (27), while he was en route to G20 summ...

June 27, 2019 1 min read

No evidence against Dr. Shafi - CID

The Police have told the Kurunegala Magistrate that they have no evidence to charge Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen who had been ac...

June 27, 2019 1 min read

President declares Railways an essential public service

President Maithripala Sirisena by the powers vested on him had declared Sri Lanka Railways as an essential public servic...

June 27, 2019 1 min read
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New buses for SLTB

The Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) has launched a new bus service at the Shalika Grounds in Narahenpita today (27) und...

June 27, 2019 1 min read

Indian fishermen caught fishing in Sri Lankan waters

The Navy has apprehended four Indians who were allegedly engaged in illegal fishing in Sri Lankan territorial waters yes...

June 27, 2019 1 min read

Storm of reaction to death penalty

The reaction to Sri Lanka’s decision to resume executing prisoners on death row has been almost universally negative, ...

June 27, 2019 2 min read

Trust fund to care for 33 children affected by Easter attacks

The Cabinet has approved the setting up of a trust fund to care for 33 children who have been affected by the Easter at...

June 26, 2019 1 min read

US sanctions on Russia firms hurting Sri Lanka; against SOFA for American forces: President

US sanctions barring deals with firms in Russia are affecting long-standing commercial and military transactions Preside...

June 26, 2019 1 min read

Chandrika bags Common Ground Award

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga received the 2019 Common Ground Award at the House of Lords in Londo...

June 26, 2019 1 min read

Fisherman missing after a strong current hits the boat

A fisherman who set up to sea from Ambalangoda last afternoon (25), has fallen from boat and gone missing as a strong s...

June 26, 2019 1 min read

President says he has signed four death warrants

Four convicted drug dealers now on death row will be executed shortly, President Maithripala Sirisena announced at a pre...

June 26, 2019 2 min read

No grudge against Muslims; only wanted to ensure peace - Wennapuwa PS Chairman

Chairman of the Wennappuwa Pradeshiya Sabha Susantha Perera, whose controversial decision to ban Muslims from trading at...

Imesh Ranasinghe
June 26, 2019 3 min read

Shafi case: FR petition filed today

Lawyers for Dr Shafi Shihabdeen who is at the centre of the controversy regarding the alleged sterilization of women pat...

June 25, 2019 32 min read