Railway strike called off following talks with Presidential Secretariat

IMF to review Sri Lanka deal after April elections

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will review its agreement with Sri Lanka after the Parliamentary elections scheduled for April. Gerry Rice of the Communications Department of the IMF said that the seventh and final review of the current Fund supported program with Sri Lanka is scheduled to take place after mid-April. He said that the IMF will look at the situation with Sri Lanka at that time. ” We will be looking at this situation then and thereafter. We have a long history of e

28 Feb, 2020

Shangri-la suicide bomber?s father further remanded

The father of the suicide bomber responsible for the attack on the Shangri- la Hotel in Colombo, Mohamed Ibrahim Ilham, has been further remanded till 13 March. He, along with 5 other suspects remanded over the Easter Sunday terror attacks in April 2019, were further remanded after being produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate?s Court today. Nine suicide bombers affiliated to local Islamist extremist group National Thowheed Jamath attacked three churches and three luxury hotels on Easter

28 Feb, 2020

Ranil says UNP will decide on new party leader

United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe says the party will decide who the party leader must be. Speaking to The Hindu newspaper, Wickremesinghe said that the party leader will be picked from a group of potential leaders. “In fact, I didn?t want to take on the post of the Leader of the Opposition. I said let Sajith [Premadasa] be there, or someone else, we will try out some new people. Because I have been there earlier. And we have to groom a lot of new people to come in. And a

28 Feb, 2020