Sahan Rathanasekara

The Election Commission is scheduled to meet today (16) in the morning. The next steps to be taken regarding the local government elections are to be discussed here. Since the Ministry of Finance has not yet released...

The SriLankan Airlines’ Engineering Division, with the help of the airline’s Information Technology arm, has launched a new website (www.srilankanengineering.com) to spotlight SriLankan Engineering’s third-party Aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) capabilities. The website will...

President Ranil Wickramasinghe has sent an open letter to the official bilateral creditors of Sri Lanka today. In the open letter directed to Sri Lanka's external creditors, in relation to obtaining the extended credit facility of...

Several trade unions have announced that they will suspend their professional action tomorrow (16) at 8 am. Accordingly, the Professionals’ Trade Union Alliance, the Government Medical Officers' Association, the Bank of Ceylon Employees' Association has announced...

The Ceylon Transport Board says that although a number of services across the country are on strike today, all 107 Langama depots operated according to the schedule. Mr. Lalith de Alvis, Chairman of SLTB, stated the...

A group of people held a protest yesterday in Colombo to protest against the government's use of tear gas to suppress the protests.

Four more countries have come forward to provide debt restructuring certificates to the International Monetary Fund, said Mr. Ali Sabri, Foreign Minister President's Attorney. He says that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Hungary and Kuwait have given debt...

Trade unions in many sectors including health, port, electricity, water, railway, post, banking are going to launch a one-day strike across the country today (15). It is based on several factors including the government's new tax...

The Presidential Media Unit announced that the Railway Department has taken immediate expedition to operate the train service amidst the strike tomorrow. Accordingly, the offices and passenger transport trains from Avissawella to Colombo at 5.00 am...