A shipment of around 40000 MT of petrol under Indian credit line reached Sri Lanka today, Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka said.

The Attorney General has instructed the IGP to transfer Western Province Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennanakoon with immediate effect to prevent unnecessary intervention into the investigations relating to the attack on peaceful protesters at Temple Trees

With what’s being unfolding, the time ahead is extremely arduous for Sri Lanka, which is today burning amid unprecedented economic crisis and political impasse. The discussions with regard to what caused the crisis are mostly concentrated around fa

Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said that Octane 95 petrol will be supplied to filling stations islandwide from today.

Eight new Cabinet Ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning.

The President SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry Iftikhar Ali Malik on Sunday urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to work out on timely bail out package to put defaulting Sri Lanka, a financially crumbled country on track.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations had assured it support to Sri Lanka in obtaining assistance to obtain food, as the food shortage in the nation grows, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

Leader of the Opposition and SJB, Sajith Premadasa decided against taking up the Prime Minister’s post when two top economic advisors of the party told him that bringing enough foreign exchange under the prevailing situation to bail out the country

Ten more Cabinet Ministers are slated to be sworn in today increasing the size of the Cabinet of the new government to 25 including President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Daily Mirror learns .

Complying with the interim injunction issued by the Supreme Court on March 29, former President Maithripala Sirisena has left the Paget Road residence last week and settled in another state house in Colombo 7, the Daily Mirror learns

The Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) has requested Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to extend the credit facilities granted to Sri Lanka, a party official said.

Migrant workers do not appear to have understood their duty at a time of grave economic disaster engulfing their motherland as they continue to send their earnings through informal money changers, seeking higher conversion rates as opposed to what th

The Central Bank last week disclosed that it collects every month up to US$ 300 million from exporter dollar conversions and surrender requirements, which helps significantly to provide dollars to finance the essential imports such as fuel, cooking g

The Central Bank said they have finalised the two sets of financial and legal advisors to negotiate with multiple creditors of Sri Lanka and the selected parties would be submitted for final approval.

An Indian ship carrying urgent relief supplies including rice, life-saving medicines and milk powder arrived in Colombo on Sunday and the consignment was handed over to the government, the Indian High Commission said.

Sri Lanka Olympian Yupun Abeykoon set a new Sri Lanka and South Asian record in the 200 metres in an international athletic meet in Italy on Sunday (22).

Referring to reports that he is to join the government, Samagi Jana Balawegaya ( SJB) MP Mayantha Dissanayake said he will not join the government.

The Ceylon Petroleum Private Tanker Owners’ Association today requested the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to provide security when transporting fuel.

Stating that he had received an invitation to join the new government, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya ( SJB) MP Mayantha Dissanayake today said he would use it an opportunity to work for the nation.

Governments need to subsidise the cost of food and energy for the poorest members of society and without the correct government support the protests seen in Sri Lanka could be repeated in other countries, the head of the International Monetary Fund (

A 36-year-old man has been arrested by the STF for possessing US$ 50,000 during a raid in Welikada in Rajagiriya.

The house belonging to the owner of an IOC Filling Station at Ranajayapura in Ipalogama, Kekirawa was set on fire last night by an angry mob as the station ran out of fuel.

As some 100 cases of Monkeypox, a mild viral illness, characterized by symptoms of fever as well as a distinctive bumpy rash, reported from at least 12 countries so far, Sri Lanka said that it has all the necessary infrastructure to diagnose Monkeypo

Sri Lankan born Holt Labor Candidate Cassandra Fernando won a seat at the Australian federal election which was held on Saturday to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has congratulated the Australian prime minister-elect, Anthony Albanese on winning the election and said the government is looking forward to working with him.

The Tamil asylum seekers in Australia at the centre of a years-long grassroots campaign to save them from deportation to Sri Lanka will be going home to the small central Queensland town of Biloela.

India has supplied another 40,000 MT consignment of diesel to Sri Lanka to help ease the fuel shortage in the country.

Anthony Albanese will be Australia’s next prime minister, leaving the Coalition in disarray after it lost more than a dozen seats to Labor and independents in an election that has transformed the country’s political landscape.

The Criminal Investigations Division (CID) recorded statements from IGP C.D. Wickramaratne and the Commandant of the STF for nearly five hours over the incidents which took place at Kollupitiya and Galle Face on May 9.

All arrangements, including supply of fuel for public transport and examination staff, have been made for the GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) examination which begins on Monday (23), Examinations Department Commissioner Ggeneral L.M.D. Dharmasena said.