President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who arrived in the Parliament a short while ago, commenced delivering the government s policy statement to the House after the first session of the Tenth Parliament was inaugurated this morning (21). MORE..
21 Nov 2024 (1:02 PM)
Ukraine fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia on Wednesday, the latest new Western weapon it has been permitted to use on Russian targets a day after it fired U.S. ATACMS missiles. MORE..
21 Nov 2024 (1:19 PM)
Former Ministers Ramesh Pathirana, Roshan Ranasinghe and Prasanna Ranatunga have arrived at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) this morning (21), in order to provide statements pertaining to the alleged importation of substandard human immunoglobulin vials. MORE..
21 Nov 2024 (12:49 PM)
British politician John Prescott, a former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister, has died at age 86. MORE..
21 Nov 2024 (4:18 PM)
The overall rate of inflation, as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), has decreased to -0.7% in October 2024 from -0.2% in September 2024, according to the latest data released by the Department of Census and Statistics. MORE..
21 Nov 2024 (5:01 PM)
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has expressed confidence that the staff-level agreement on the third review of the International Monetary Fund s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement for Sri Lanka could be finalized and signed by November 23. MORE..
21 Nov 2024 (2:46 PM)