The Government is confident that it will be able to reach a staff level agreement this week on the release of the second tranche of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to be provided by the International ...

ECONOMYNEXT — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has essentially endorsed his predecessor President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve Sri Lanka’s financial crisis, according to former State ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced that he will not join the alliance formed by the United National Party (UNP). He made this statement after attending a Politburo meeting at the Sri ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders and overthrow the government in an armed insurrection.On Sunday, he won ...

US prepares ban on Chinese, Russian car technology. Sri Lanka elects political outsider as president. Asian stocks are set to fall. Here’s what you need to know today. The US Commerce Department ...

Welcome to ee’s 6 th anniversary issue: This ee doesn’t just recall our first tenuous scribblings (see ee Focus, 6 Years Ago: Who Took the Money? Shut Up!). The portentous perils under a Binara moon ...

The Parliament, too, remained conveniently silent over external interventions though some lawmakers addressed the issue. Current State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe raised the US funding made ...

For environmentalists Dissanayake and Semasinghe, mangroves also provide “sustainable livelihoods for rural communities.” The leader of the Aam Admy Party - a member of the opposition to Modi ...

For environmentalists Dissanayake and Semasinghe, mangroves also provide “sustainable livelihoods for rural communities.” Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lanka is taking significant steps to ...

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently brought together a coalition of some of the biggest names is Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector to conduct an ‘Agri Modernisation Fair’ for farmers in the Vavuniya ...

The police confirmed that the vehicle driven by the officer collided with a car with State Minister Shehan Semasinghe. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident.