Dr. Tilak S. Fernando   Honest and intelligent lawmakers needed. There are rumours that Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had to take over the finance portfolio since no member of the Sri Lankan Parliament was willing to take up this challenge of managing the country’s finances. Instead of looking at the scenario negatively, it […]

Embassy & Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok The 75th Anniversary of the UNESCAP was celebrated and the 78th session of the UNESCAP under the theme A common agenda to advance sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific” held on hybrid mode from 23- 27 May 2022 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok. […]

Courtesy The Daily News Spokesman Rice said it’s too early to discuss potential financing Says can’t affirm when staff-level agreement will be reached either Acknowledges SL faced with very difficult economic condition, severe balance of payment problems In-person mission due in Colombo in coming weeks While the government is looking to firm up the negotiations […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has recommended the release of information about the Monetary Board proceedings to restore public confidence in the handling of public finance. He has made this recommendation in a letter dated 08 June to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Referring to the recent shocking disclosure of politically-motivated decisions […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The struggle that claimed the life of innocent parliamentarian Amarakeerthi Athukorala is no longer an innocent or peaceful struggle, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. Speaking at the vote of condolence of late parliamentarian Amarakeerthi Athukorala, he told Parliament that even the religious leaders at the ‘Aragalaya” did not intervene […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has emphasized the need to maintain more efficient and quality public transport services to attract passengers. The people have been severely inconvenienced due to the increase in oil prices and at the same time, there is a high demand for public transportation, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The name of business tycoon Dhammika Perera has been gazetted as a Member of Parliament from Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). The communiqué was issued by the Election Commission today (June 10). Earlier today, SLPP’s General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam said Dhammika Perera’s name was proposed to the Election Commission to fill the National List […]

Courtesy Adaderana New approaches should be found to attract tourists President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said at a progress review meeting of the Ministry of Tourism. The meeting was held at the President’s House in Colombo Fort today (June 10). More than 4 million people are directly and indirectly involved in the tourism industry. The tourism […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Finance signed an agreement with the EXIM Bank of India for a USD 55 million credit line to purchase 65,000 tonnes of urea from India, according to the Prime Minister’s office. The Secretary to the Ministry of Finance M. Siriwardena today (10) signed an agreement with EXIM Bank […]

Courtesy Hiru News ජුනි මස 20 වැනි දින ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල මෙරටට පැමිණෙන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මාධ්‍ය ආයතන වෙත දැනුම්දී තිබෙනවා. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ඊයේ (9) පස්වරුවේ මෙරට මාධ්‍ය ආයතන හිමිකරුවන් සමග පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවකදියි මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේ. මෙම සාකච්ඡාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ ආර්ථික උපදේශක ආචාර්ය ආර් .එස්.එච්.සමරතුංග රටේ ආර්ථික තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව දැනුවත් කර සිටියා. ජුනි මාසය […]