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Sri Lanka News Reports, updated regularly. Feb 14 (AD) Attorney General has filed indictments in the Colombo High Court against Yoshitha Rajapaksa, the second son of former Prez Mahinda Rajapaksa, and his grandmother Daisy Forrest Wickremesinghe under the Money Laundering Act.

Sri Lanka News Reports, updated regularly. Feb 9 (ST) President’s Office has instructed ministers and senior state sector officials not to undertake foreign visits during the month- long Budget debate period in Parliament commencing on Feb 17.

Feb 14 (Island) Former Vanni District MP Kulasingam Thileepan, who represented the EPDP, was arrested by the Tamil Nadu police in India on 12 Feb. Former MP had travelled from SL to Chennai and was attempting to obtain a visa to travel to a European country using a forged passport when he was apprehended in Kochi, Kerala.

Nov 20 (S247) X-Press Feeders has hit out at the bureaucratic and legal hurdles that have caused severe delays in the case of the X-Press Pearl, a boxship that caught fire in 2021 causing one of SL’s worst-ever environmental disasters. The master of the ship has not been able to leave SL for the past 1,280 days. Splash reported late last month the new SL govt will reopen investigations into ...

Feb 11 (NW) Deputy Minister of Sports Sugath Thilakaratne has denied media reports claiming that he has migrated to Australia. Speaking to media, Thilakaratne clarified that he is currently on a private visit and that he funded the trip with his personal money.

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Nov 20 (Island) In a way it was a great thing for the country that the NPP scored an emphatic victory at the Nov. 14 general election. Now the JVP-led NPPers can have no excuses for not being able to fulfill their promises as would have been the case if the preceding September Prez election outcome was repeated with the combined Opposition having the lion’s share of …

Jul 12 (DM) Sri Lanka Customs has raised concerns over the No Go indication from the Finance Ministry to the proposed container clearing yard with a 3,000-container capacity. The project, recommended by a 2020 Asian Development Bank (ADB) study as a solution to current cargo congestion, has not yet received approval from the Finance Ministry, the Daily Mirror learns.

Nov 1 (NW) American engineering technology group Transdigm Group has invested $8.5 million in Sri Lanka partnering with AmSafe BirdPort to establish a new facility in the Wathupitiwala Export Processing Zone (EPZ).