Category: Local News

While Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to sell a stake in its national carrier, SriLankan Airlines, after foreign offers it sought didn’t meet up to expectations, government officials say they are pursuing an alternate route which still includes attracting investors to the debt-ridden airline.

Former Member of Parliament Hirunika Premachandra, who was sentenced to a three-year jail term in connection with an abduction case from 2015, was granted bail today (July 22) by the Colombo High Court following a bail application filed by her attorney.

Teacher and principal unions in Sri Lanka are starting a ‘work-to-rule’ campaign today (July 22) that will last for two weeks.

A 32-year-old woman and her two sons, aged 9 and 14, drowned in an abandoned quarry filled with water at Kawanthissa Pura, Tissamaharama.

The people of the Gampaha district have decisively endorsed Ranil Wickremesinghe for re-election as President of Sri Lanka in the upcoming presidential election.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that it is not feasible to indefinitely maintain the temporarily suspended Parate law.

Former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena explained that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution aimed to limit the executive President’s powers and shorten the President’s term from six to five years.

Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, announced that an IMF delegation will visit Sri Lanka next week to review the country’s economic progress.

Sri Lanka Police have arrested a 21-year-old woman on suspicion of being linked to the recent killing at ‘Club Wasantha’ in Athurugiriya.

The former Director General of the Institute of National Strategic Studies of Sri Lanka (INSS), Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, was arrested this morning (July 21) at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).

Puttalam District MP Ali Sabri Raheem has been granted bail after being produced before the Puttalam Magistrate’s Court today (July 20).

According to a decision by the Sri Lankan government, construction work to modernize Hingurakgoda Domestic Airport for international flight operations commenced on Friday (July 19), under the initiative of the Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ordered the publication of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution via a Gazette notification.

Sri Lanka has decided not to sell its national airline, SriLankan Airlines, even though it had shortlisted three potential buyers.

The Department of Immigration and Emigration in Sri Lanka announced that prior online registration is now required when applying for a Sri Lankan passport, effective today (July 19).

Dr. IZUMI Hiroto, head of the Japanese delegation visiting Sri Lanka, praised the successful completion of the country’s debt restructuring process, noting that it has paved the way for the resumption of Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects.