The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange gained 169.53 points to close at 14,205.34 points today, marking a new all-time high. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (4:55 PM)
Indian conglomerate Adani Group s port project in Sri Lanka will go ahead despite US charges against its founder and sudden changes to its financing, the island nation said Friday. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (2:34 PM)
The enduring fisheries conflict in the Palk Bay - which impacts fisher folk of northern Sri Lanka and daily wage fishermen of Tamil Nadu - can be decisively resolved only if the Indian side stops using the destructive bottomtrawling method, according to Sri Lanka s Minister of Fisheries Ramalingam Chandrasekar. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:29 AM)
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentary group, led by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, has commenced signing the Motion of No Confidence against the Speaker of Parliament, according to the SJB Media Unit. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (3:42 PM)
The District Secretary for Colombo, Prasanna Ginige, says that the population and housing census is underway across the island and urges the public to cooperate with the officials visiting homes by providing the required information. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (9:50 AM)
A diplomat who "entrapped" a domestic worker in her Canberra home, forcing her to work 14 hours, seven days a week, for less than a dollar an hour, has been fined more than $100,000 in the Australian federal court. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:57 AM)