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Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral creditor, China, has assured the island nation its help in effectively addressing the debt challenges as it has to finalise the external and domestic debt restructuring of a whopping USD 41 billion by September before the IMF’s first review. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to conduct its first review […]
Sri Lanka children will have to learn Hindi and Chinese in the future to fit into the changing world, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday (August 16).The post Sri Lanka Children will have to learn Hindi and Chinese in the future – President appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
A severe shortage of staff at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), at Mulleriyawa, had affected both workers and patients, Dr. Dhammika Wijesinghe, Director of NIMH, said on Wednesday during a televised interview. She said that there were about 1,100 patients at the NIMH. “
By Rathindra Kuruwita About 2,000 doctors had left the country during the past two years, All Ceylon Medical Officers’ Association (ACMOA) General Secretary Dr. Jayantha Bandara said on Wednesday (16). Now about 5,000 more doctors were planning to leave the country, Dr. Bandara said. “There are many reasons why professionals are leaving the country. Instead of addressing the […]
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned of the risk of a potential water shortage in Sri Lanka in another 20 years.
The US and Australia gave the Sri Lanka Air Force, and Navy fuel when there was a shortage of fuel in the country. President’s Senior Advisor on National Security Sagala Ratnayaka said that India has also stepped up beyond the call of duty to lend Sri Lanka a hand. He was speaking after a successor
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team will visit Colombo in a month's time for the first review on Sri Lanka's loan programme, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.The post IMF staff to visit Sri Lanka in September for first programme review appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team will visit Colombo in a month’s time for the first review on Sri Lanka’s loan programme, a spokesperson said. The Washington-based lender approved a nearly US$3 billion bailout for crisis-hit Sri Lanka in March. The Asian island is struggling with its worst financial crisis in over seven decades, […]
By N Sathiya Moorthy Recently, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha told Parliament that the Government was making efforts to increase the number of teachers across the country — but there would still remain a shortage of 26,000 teachers. His proposals include hiring retired and former
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The IMF will conduct the first review of the $2.9 billion bailout to Sri Lanka from September 11-19, state minister of finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said on Saturday and declared that the country has successfully fulfilled the nine conditions set by the global lender.The post IMF to conduct bailout review for Sri Lanka in September appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and T...
Cops join IRD to raise revenue The police has launched a new collaboration with the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) to track down unexplained wealth and go after black money, a top official said.Under the new initiative, the police will inform the IRD of their on-going investigations into money laundering and financial scams so that tax […]
More than 28,000 families in six districts of Sri Lanka are currently facing difficulties to access safe drinking water, the Disaster Management Centre said.The post 28,000 families in six districts of Sri Lanka facing drinking water shortage appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking
Monetary policy transmission to the real economy in Sri Lanka is still incomplete, the governor of the country's central bank, Nandalal Weerasinghe, said at a LSEG FX Community Event on Monday.The post Sri Lanka central bank chief: monetary policy transmission still incomplete appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
SJB MP Eran Wickramaratne says the importation of inferior medicine by way of emergency procurement and non-functioning medical, surgical and other test equipment in hospitals have ruined the public health sector. Addressing the Media at the Office of the Leader of Opposition on Sunday (6Aug2023), Wickramaratne said that this pathetic situation in the health sector […]
By N Sathiya Moorthy If someone thought that President Ranil Wickremesinghe was funny about it, he was not. If anything, it sounded more Quixotic than possibly predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s misadventure with ‘organic farming’. According to reports, at an official meeting the other day, Wickremesinghe asked Health Ministry officials to devise a strategy to seek compensation […]
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) says that 12 districts across the island are currently facing drinking water shortages, owing to the prevailing dry weather conditions.
ECONOMYNEXT –Amid reports of rising brain drain, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed government officials to devise a strategy to seek compensation from foreign nations that recruit Sri Lankan doctors. Speaking at a discussion with health ministry officials on Thursday August 03, President Wickremesinghe proposed that the matter be raised at World Health Organisation […]
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Cassandra in her Friday Cry-s has often noted with deep gratitude that nature has been benevolent to suffering, down and almost out Sri Lanka. Forest fires due to intemperate temperature in usually cool climes; sudden floods due to torrential rains; erupting volcanoes and earthquakes have all assiduously avoided troubling poor little Sri Lanka struggling against […]
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given instructions to formulate a new Medical Act within six months.The post Sri Lanka President instructs to formulate new Medical Act within six months to protect citizens’ well-being appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
Health sector trade unions have decided to launch a token strike on Thursday (03) across the entire health sector of the country. The strike is to be launched over several issues including the shortage of medicines at state hospitals and the procurement of substandard drugs. Representatives
Sri Lanka decided to immediately suspend the use of rice for the production of animal feed and beer.The post Sri Lanka suspends use of rice to make beer and feed animals appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
In a veiled attack on China, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said BRICS could work together on listing terrorists and their proxies under the UN counter-terrorism sanctions regime but emphasised that the process should be free from “politics and double standards.” Ajit Doval made the remarks during the meeting of the National Security Advisers of […]
The Chairman of the Human Rights Commission and other members called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (28) afternoon. During the meeting, they apprised the President of the considerable volume of public complaints received by the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, which has reached nearly 11,000. They also raised concerns about the […]
sector, plagued with severe shortage of medicine and equipment and with some hospitals […]
Video: Dental and Kidney surgeries at risk due to medicine shortage
The Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, went on record a few days ago saying that if all the pilots in SriLankan Airlines leave, he will get foreign pilots to replace them. He stated this at a joint programme of CAASL and IATA on Aviation Day at Katunayake on Friday, July […]
The Gazette notification issued earlier this year stipulating a Maximum Retail Price (MRP) for eggs was withdrawn at midnight on Tuesday (July 25), according to the Ministry of Trade.The post Gazette issued removing maximum retail price for eggs appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
By Jayantha Somasundaram (This articlecontinued from yesterday (25) is based on reporting by the international media on the events in Sri Lanka forty years ago.) “For day after day Tamils were beaten, hacked or burned to death in the streets, on buses, on trains – sometimes in the sight of horrified foreign tourists. Their homes […]