The fisheries sector which plays a pivotal role in the social fabric and the economy has been in hot water for some time with many of the issues impeding its sustenance, remaining unresolved. Despite ...

The third official foreign visit of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from February 10 to13. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tourism and Foreign Employment Vijitha ...

A Public Health Inspector (PHI) was arrested on Friday for allegedly soliciting and accepting a bribe of Rs. 200,000 from a businessman to renew the business licence of an eatery, according to Bribery ...

The Local Government Elections (Special Provisions) Bill will be presented to Parliament tomorrow (17) at 2.00 pm following President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Budget speech. Parliament’s Director of ...

A Federal Reserve interest rate cut won’t be coming until at least September, if at all this year, following a troubling inflation report on Wednesday, according to updated market pricing. “The Fed ...

The Adani Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates decided to withdraw from its wind power projects in Sri Lanka last week, marking a significant turn in a deal that had been mired in controversy, ...

The National Organic Control Unit (NOCU), the competent authority for organic agriculture in Sri Lanka under the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB), launched its ambitious, islandwide initiative ...

Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dr. Krishnamoorthy Subramanian called on Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, at the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday. The meeting focused on ...

A tense situation unfolded outside the Wadduwa Police Station on Tuesday following the death of a young man just hours after his release from police custody. Around 40 villagers gathered outside the ...

The Central Bank has cautioned the public about fake employment opportunities circulating on social media misusing the official logo of the Bank to deceive the public by claiming that they are ...

Is the world veering away rapidly from anything that smacks of socialism, or is socialism moving away from itself? Socialism or plain old politics of the Left is morphing into right-wing jingoism in ...

Sri Lanka’s third Mutual Evaluation on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework coordinated by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) will ...