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Sri Lanka’s third meeting with its external creditors has not been scheduled yet, State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe said, as Sri Lanka is facing a delay in its debt restructuring and IMF loan approval. Sri Lanka could not hold the...

Rugby great Doddie Weir has died at age 52, according to a statement from the Weir family that was released through the Scottish Rugby Union. Weir died six years after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). “Doddie was an inspirational force...

Protests are erupting across China, including at universities and in Shanghai where hundreds chanted “Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!”, in an unprecedented show of defiance against the country’s stringent and increasingly costly zero-Covid policy. A deadly fire...

94 academics, including university lecturers, have issued a joint statement claiming that Sri Lanka is in the grip of a police state. The announcement also states that only an election can prevent this situation from occurring.

"Someone tells me to be a Hitler in front of me and I immediately condemn that statement..." Ranil Wickramasinghe Sunday Observer 23.06.2018 This is Ranil's response to Reverend Anunayake Upali Thero of the Asgiri chapter's advice to Gotabhaya to be...

Chairman of the Public Finance Committee Dr. Harsha de Silva has instructed the Finance and Trade Ministry to calculate and give the final price at which an egg could be sold. The Chairman has instructed the officials to calculate the...

According to Professor Wasantha Athukorala of Peradeniya University's Department of Economics and Statistical Studies, the Sri Lankan government must borrow 1050 crore rupees from the world every day in order to continue operations. According to the professor, the government's income...

Fame and Flashdance singer Irene Cara has died at the age of 63. The American singer and actress was best known for her title track in the 1980 film Fame, as well as co-writing and singing the smash hit Flashdance…...

According to the hospital sources, the women's hospital on Castle Street has been informed that if the electricity bill of 170 lakhs is not paid immediately, the electricity will be cut off without notice. A hospital spokesman has stated that...

It is reported that nearly 600 Sri Lankans who participated in the construction work of the Football World Cup in Qatar these days have died. The people who participated in the stadium construction, road system construction, and hotel construction have...