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Sri Lanka's International Monetary Fund bailout plan could be a turning point in its worst economic crisis, but far-from-stable politics and a need to get debt relief from competing powers China, India and Japan means some of the hardest work...

Committee appointed to ensure removal of scrap material from government institutions, as per Interim Budget proposal Secretary to the President E.M.S.B. Ekanayake has appointed a committee for the purpose of supervising and implementing the entire process of the disposal of...

Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said that the agreement made with the International Monetary Fund has not been presented to the Cabinet yet. Mr. Premajayant stated this while answering the question asked by MP Anura Yapa in Parliament today.

The wife and two children of former Polonnaruwa District Member of Parliament Amarakirthi Athukorala, who died in the incident that took place on May 09 in Nittambuwa area, met President Ranil Wickramasinghe at the Presidential Office yesterday (05). President Ranil...

Sajith Premadasa, leader of the Sri Lankan opposition, has asked for the IMF Staff-Level Agreement to be presented in parliament. On Tuesday, he informed the chamber that, due to parliament's control over public finances, it was vital that lawmakers and...

The Deputy Director of the hospital Dr. Santhush Senapati requests the people to come forward immediately if there are any donors as the amount of protein in the diet of the children admitted in the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital is...

Sri Lanka is contending with a high risk of default on its local currency bonds as it seeks to reduce debt, key to winning financing from the International Monetary Fund to bring relief to the crisis-hit island. Fitch Ratings’s ‘CCC’...

The island newspaper which was released today reports that the Ministers whose properties were destroyed due to the violence that broke out in the midst of the people's struggle on the 9th of May are trying to get compensation by...

Sajaba Member of Parliament Chaminda Wijesiri said that there was a political deal between Wickramasinghe and the Rajapaksas since then, and that the leaders of another third force are also making a deal with Mr. Wickramasinghe. He pointed out that...

Sri Lanka will not accept any international investigation imposed by the U.N. Human Rights Council into alleged rights abuses during the country's long civil war, an official said Monday. Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry said the government is willing to...