COLOMBO, July 22 -- Sri Lanka's Monetary Policy Board has kept the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) unchanged at 8.75%, citing elevated inflation, stronger domestic demand and continued uncertainty in the ... Read More
COLOMBO, July 22 -- Police have seized more than 300 high-end smartphones worth an estimated Rs 50 million that were allegedly smuggled into Sri Lanka without payment of customs duties, during a raid ... Read More
COLOMBO, July 22 -- The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has called on Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara to suspend plans to amend the Constitution to increase the reti... Read More
COLOMBO, July 22 -- In an extraordinary expression of civic responsibility, more than 1,000 volunteers participated in an islandwide environmental cleanup campaign on Sunday (19), collecting over one ... Read More
COLOMBO, July 20 -- Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Wickramaratne was laid to rest with full police honours at the Borella General Cemetery on Monday (20), as family members, senior poli... Read More
COLOMBO, July 20 -- Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Monday dismissed, without proceeding to a full hearing, a fundamental rights petition seeking to invalidate government circulars and legislation relati... Read More
Sri Lanka, July 20 -- Once, after reading a highly critical article on homoeopathy, a person asked me out of genuine curiosity: "How can homoeopaths practise medicine without knowing anything about th... Read More
COLOMBO, July 17 -- Police arrested several individuals and seized large quantities of narcotics and smuggled cigarettes during a series of raids conducted across the country over the past 24 hours, a... Read More
COLOMBO, July 17 -- The government is in discussions with the Land Reform Commission to resettle six families who were evicted from St. Leonard's Estate in Ragala following a court order, Deputy Minis... Read More
COLOMBO, July 17 -- The Colombo High Court has fixed Aug. 31 for the commencement of the pre-trial conference in the money laundering case against Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda R... Read More