Adifference of opinion between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government has emerged over a proposal to introduce the secondary property tax in the 2027 budget proposals, the Sunday Times learns. The IMF has proposed...
Pada Yathras — foot pilgrimages to the historic Kataragama Devalaya — are challenging journeys undertaken by devotees to coincide with the annual festival. Thousands of pilgrims trek treacherous paths and endure the hot weather. Navy...
Sri Lanka has begun talks with asset manager and financial advisory firm Lazard Freres to overhaul a part of the foreign debt, the head of the public debt manager said this week. Public Debt Management Office Director General Udeni...
Sri Lanka on Friday abstained on a UN General Assembly vote to extend Volker Turk's term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Sri Lanka was among just 13 countries out of 167 that abstained from voting. The others were Belarus, Dominican...
(Agencies/Al Jazeera) - India’s youth protesters have agreed to end their weeks-old agitation “in good faith” after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned, a big victory for the movement protesting against a series of...
All state employees and schoolchildren are required to take an “Integrity Oath” at their respective institutions under the government’s ambitious “Clean Sri Lanka National Programme,” an initiative approved by the Cabinet to promote...
Sri Lanka's grand constitutional experiment in the form of a Constitutional Council (CC) and ‘independent commissions', meant to fetter the exercise of executive power, is running into serious headwinds, it seems. This newspaper...