State Minister of Education Reforms, Open Universities and Distance Learning Promotion Susil Premajayantha has been removed from his post with immediate effect.
The Prime Minister’s Office today (03) refuted claims circulating on mainstream media and social media that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is to resign from his position.
The Russian Federation has transferred USD 5.5 million to the World Food Program (WFP) in order to provide financing of the projects related to the development of sustainable school nutrition systems in Sri Lanka.
With Sri Lanka facing a multitude of crises on all fronts, highly placed sources within the United National Party (UNP) said that Party Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to contribute towards a new nation-building programme in 2022.
An investigation has started in the death of a Sri Lankan national after the autopsy report showed that he died by strangulation, the Seychelles Police said on Wednesday.
If Mahinda Rajapaksa was to step down from the post of Premiership, he would notify me about his decision, Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo and Chief Incumbent of Abayaramaya in Narahenpita Ven. Muruththetuwe Ananda Thera said.
Opposition lawmaker Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday said ad-hoc and highly questionable measures would not resolve but rather further aggravate the severe foreign exchange and reserves crisis facing the country.
Sri Lanka announced on Monday the closure of three overseas diplomatic missions as part of a restructuring bid to save the country's much-needed foreign currency reserves and minimising expenditure in the wake of grave economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local residents Oothuchenai, a village in Batticaloa bordering Polonnaruwa district, blocked a highway between Polonnaruwa and Colombo on Monday, in protest against rampant sand mining in their locality.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Ajith Nivard Cabraal announced today that Sri Lanka’s official foreign reserves have reached approximately USD 3.1 billion.
