The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with SLT Mobitel, launched an e-channeling appointment system with effect from today (Sep. 29).

Samanti Kulatilake Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at Mount Royal University, Canada to speak

It is the hope and expectation of Sri Lanka that the island nation s creditors and all stakeholders will support to restore debt sustainability and help put the country back on the path of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says.

Sri Lanka s government appears increasingly upbeat about its chances of receiving International Monetary Fund (IMF) board approval for a USD 2.9 billion bailout by December, but the multilateral lender has cautioned that the time frame remains uncertain, and much depends on discussions with the heavily indebted country s creditors.

It has also been proposed to amend the words "children and young persons ordinance" to "children’s ordinance"

The political party leaders have decided to debate the draft of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution on October 06 and 07, the Communications Department of Sri Lanka Parliament says.

The European Union has released Â1.5 million in humanitarian aid to respond to the ongoing socio-economic crisis affecting millions of people in Sri Lanka.

Open account channel for maize not open

Colombo Port City to be protected from the central bank's policy rate and depreciation

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe is currently engaged in a bilateral discussion with his Philippines counterpar, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.

75 percent of a bottle of alcohol is taxes

By Shamindra Ferdinando Civil society activist and former Parliament Director Administration Lacille de Silva says that the Speaker should be held responsible for the continuing failure to initiate action in respect of reports submitted to the House. The outspoken ex-official said so when The Island asked him whether he backed lawmaker Prof. Charitha Herath’s push […]

Thursday 29th September, 2022 President Ranil Wickremesinghe is reported to have had several productive meetings in Japan and received assurances of more Japanese assistance. This is certainly good news amidst reports of doom and gloom. There is something even more uplifting; Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has said, at a meeting with President Wickremesinghe, that […]

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka co-hosted the CBSL-ADBI-APAEA Online Macroeconomics Conference for the third consecutive year, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA), on 23 September 2022. This year’s theme remained same as the previous year; ‘Emerging Issues for Macroeconomic Stability’. Inaugurating the Conferenc...

The Republic of Korea (RoK) has, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), provided a grant worth USD 6 mn to Sri Lanka to help communities affected by Covid-19 in the Central and Uva Provinces, KOICA said yesterday. According to KOICA, about 64,000 would directly benefit from this project whereas there would be about 900,000 […]

In Sri Lanka, there are two enduring issues that annoy all those who detest blatant use of ‘institutionalised’ repression, as it were. The first is the torturing of the new entrants to universities, which is customarily called “ragging”, which conveniently camouflages its perverseness behind a mask of pseudo-intellectuality. The other is the abuse of power […]

Some thoughts about electricity bills of religious places BY Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya News this week that the electricity bill of a temple has increased from Rs 58,000 to Rs 300,00 per month, shows the weaknesses in the pricing structure that prevailed for decades, and the weakness that is propagated into the future by the new […]