Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has decided that four clauses of the proposed Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution need a public referendum to be approved as they are against the people’s sovereignty

Prime Minister of South Korea Chung Sye-kyun Tuesday called his Sri Lankan counterpart Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the two leaders discussed a number of areas of mutual bilateral interest while expressing the desire to further enhance relations between the two countries

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join bilateral talks in Colombo on the 28th of October, said the Sri Lankan Ministry Of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday (20)

A robust government roadmap was required for Sri Lanka's targeted recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to increase the island nation's share of exports and fast-track existing foreign investments, a new report said

Former Director of the State Intelligence Service Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena Monday (19) told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Easter Sunday attacks that as of April 11 last year, nearly 15,000 people were aware of intelligence that Saharan Hashim had planned the bombings

Sri Lanka's Cabinet of Ministers approved to ban the packaging of chemicals or pesticides in Poly Ethylene Terephthalate (PET) and Vinyl Chloride (PVC) containers and use packagings made of glass or other raw materials as an alternative

Sri Lanka's Minister of Education, Prof. GL Peiris, said that identifying the development needs and current challenges at the district level would be very effective in uplifting the education system in the country and the proposals made by the Ministry of Education in this regard will be given priority in the 2021 Budget, which is to be presented in November

Handing over letters of appointment to the trainees selected from families of the lowest income category in Sri Lankan society under the programme to recruit 100,000 individuals for employment commenced on Monday (19)

Sri Lankans will have to make reforms for longer-term growth and address immediate challenges in repaying debt as the country battles with a Coronavirus crisis with the economy set to contract in 2020, Pathfinder, a Colombo-based think tank said

An unspecified number of employees of MAS Holdings, Sri Lanka’s largest apparel manufacturer, have tested positive for COVID-19, the company said in an official statement today

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has approved $966 million worth of loans under a relief program for Covid-19 affected businesses, it was reported on Sunday

Sri Lanka ranked 64th out of the 107 countries in the 2020 Global Hunger Index, with a score of 16.3 and has a level of hunger that is moderate

Vietnam has agreed to enter into a bilateral agreement for the development of fisheries and aquaculture in Sri Lanka

The government has decided to temporarily close all zoological gardens managed under the Department of National Zoological Gardens, the Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation, C.B. Ratnayake said

Various views have been made on the making of “800”; the real-life story of Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, regarded by some as the best bowler to have ever played the game