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The government will present a welfare-oriented budget for next year while factoring in additional expenditure due to the ongoing crisis in West Asia and the possible impact of El Niño, a senior government official said. Budget 2027 will...
Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya left for St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, yesterday to represent Sri Lanka at the 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). During her visit, she is scheduled to engage with...
Matara Magistrate Chathura Dissanayake has rejected a request by former minister Basil Rajapaksa to allow a lawyer to represent him without him personally appearing before court. The Attorney General, appearing for the Financial Crime...
The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) will conduct investigations into the assets of Deputy Public Security Minister Sunil Watagala and former Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody. The Commission...
Sri Lanka's electric vehicle adoption is progressing faster than the development of the regulatory, institutional, infrastructure and environmental management systems required to support it sustainably, an audit report has revealed.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday that the government will reduce certain taxes in the upcoming budget without upsetting its revenue targets. “Since we took power, we have not imposed any new taxes. We have in fact reduced...
When opposition parties led by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) submitted a No-Confidence Motion (NCM) against Parliament Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne on October 9, the ruling National People's Power (NPP) reacted with the typical bravado...