October 15, 2023 09:05 am
NEW DELHI, Oct 15: India and Sri Lanka on Saturday resumed the much-awaited ferry service after 40 years, officials said. The service was launched between Nagapattinam on the eastern coast of India's Tamil Nadu state and Kankesanthurai near Jaffna in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
September 1, 2023 08:13 am
COLOMBO, Sep 1: The Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) indicates that Sri Lanka's key inflation rate has eased to 4 percent in August from 6.3 percent in July, the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) said on Thursday.
June 7, 2023 07:45 am
COLOMBO, June 7: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on Tuesday that it will support Sri Lanka in establishing a well-coordinated food safety system in the country.
May 31, 2023 08:40 am
COLOMBO, May 31: Reaffirming its commitment to the people of Sri Lanka, India on Tuesday signed an agreement with Colombo to enable the use of USD 1 billion credit facility for the procurement of medicine, food, and other essentials for one more year.
May 25, 2023 07:45 am
COLOMBO, May 25: Sri Lanka's navy said Wednesday it had located 14 bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that had capsized last week with 39 crew on board.
December 29, 2022 09:15 am
Once old is new again may well be a mantra as one-time leaders return to leadership posts again — from Nepal to Southeast Asia. Every year, we take a look back at the year that was - at Asia's triumphs and tragedies. And 2022 was no different as we took to CNBC at year's end to premiere our Best to Worst Year in Asia list.
September 13, 2022 09:42 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 13: Nepal has trounced Sri Lanka 6-0 in its second match under the 6th women's SAFF Championship football tournament. In the match held at Dasharath Stadium in Tripureshwor on Monday, Nepal registered its second win in the tournament.
July 20, 2022 16:30 pm
COLOMBO, July 20: Ranil Wickremesinghe, a lawyer who served as Sri Lanka's prime minister a record six times, has finally made it to the top job, securing the presidency after winning a parliamentary vote on Wednesday despite fierce public opposition to his candidacy.
July 15, 2022 19:30 pm
COLOMBO, July 15: Sri Lanka's parliament accepted the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday after he fled the country, paving the way for lawmakers to start repairing the island's shattered politics and resume efforts to ease its economic crisis.
July 12, 2022 17:10 pm
KATHMANDU, July 12: Nepali Congress (NC) MP Jitendra Narayan Dev claims that Nepal is not heading toward an economic crisis like the one witnessed in Sri Lanka. Speaking at a special sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday, Dev said that Nepal was not facing an economic crisis like that of Sri Lanka.
July 9, 2022 14:30 pm
COLOMBO, July 9 : Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president's official residence on Saturday in one of the largest antigovernmental marches in the crisis-hit country this year.
July 9, 2022 09:35 am
COLOMBO, July 9: Police in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend rally, as public discontent escalates over the worst economic crisis in seven decades.
June 10, 2022 20:00 pm
GENEVA, June 10: Sri Lanka is at risk of tipping into a full-blown humanitarian crisis as the country's economy suffers its biggest shock in decades, the U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA) said on Friday.
June 4, 2022 15:39 pm
June 4: Sri Lanka's main airport on Saturday denied any involvement of the island nation's government behind a decision to detain an Aeroflot aircraft, a Russian-operated plane after Russia lodged a diplomatic protest over the move.
June 4, 2022 07:00 am
COLOMBO, June 4: Sri Lanka is aiming to attract well over $1 billion in foreign direct investment this year, an official said on Friday, as the country wrestles with its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948.
April 14, 2022 15:50 pm
COLOMBO, April 14: Sri Lankans shared milk rice and oil cakes to celebrate their traditional new year on Thursday opposite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office, where they camped out for a sixth day demanding his resignation over the worst economic crisis in memory.
April 10, 2022 14:26 pm
KATHMANDU, April 10: CPN-UML Vice Chairman and former finance minister Bishnu Poudel has said that the country’s economy is at an imminent risk.
April 9, 2022 16:20 pm
COLOMBO, April 9: Sri Lanka will need about $3 billion in external assistance within the next six months to help restore supplies of essential items, including fuel and medicines, to manage a severe economic crisis, its finance minister told Reuters on Saturday.
April 9, 2022 07:10 am
COLOMBO, April 9: Sri Lanka's central bank doubled its key interest rates on Friday, raising each by an unprecedented 700 basis points to tame inflation that has soared due to crippling shortages of basic goods driven by a devastating economic crisis.
April 3, 2022 12:45 pm
COLOMBO, April 3: Sri Lankan soldiers with assault rifles and police manned checkpoints in Colombo on Sunday as the government blocked social media platforms after imposing a curfew to contain public unrest triggered by the country's economic crisis
August 9, 2019 16:25 pm
COLOMBO, August 9: Kane Williamson’s stature as one of the most loved cricketers around was evident again when a group of Sri Lankan fans arranged a special treat on the sidelines of a warm-up match to celebrate the New Zealand captain’s birthday.
April 28, 2019 17:30 pm
COLOMBO, April 28: The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and a relative of the suicide bombers told Reuters on Sunday.
April 24, 2019 17:30 pm
COLOMBO, April 24: Many of the suicide bombers who killed more than 350 people in a series of coordinated Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were highly educated and came from middle- and upper-middle-class families, the junior defense minister said Wednesday.
March 1, 2019 10:38 am
COLOMBO, March 1: The International Monetary Fund has agreed to extend Sri Lanka’s $1.5 billion loan program by one year and has reached staff level agreement to disburse the sixth tranche of the loan, government and diplomatic sources told Reuters on Friday.
December 16, 2018 12:14 pm
COLOMBO, Dec 16 : United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Sunday, ending a 51-day power tussle in the island nation that had crippled the government, the Press Trust of India reported.
December 15, 2018 12:29 pm
COLOMBO, Dec 15: Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned this morning as Sri Lanka's prime minister amid a two-month long power tussle in the island nation, international news agencies reported today.
November 23, 2018 15:27 pm
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov 23: Lawmakers opposed to disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa won control of a key committee setting Parliament’s agenda during a crucial vote on Friday that dealt a severe blow to his government.
November 14, 2018 11:34 am
COLOMBO, Nov 14 : Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government on Wednesday, opposition lawmakers said, throwing the country deeper into crisis.
November 11, 2018 12:02 pm
COLOMBO, Nov 10, 2018 (AFP) - Sri Lanka plunged deeper into crisis Saturday after President Maithripala Sirisena sacked parliament and called a snap election, leaving the country facing a further two months of damaging political paralysis.
September 27, 2018 18:47 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Nepal has registered its third win in the 46th Asian U-18 School Championship underway in India.
September 2, 2018 16:36 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 2: President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena left here for home this afternoon by concluding his two-day long goodwill visit to Nepal.
September 1, 2018 22:12 pm
RUPANDEHI, Sept 1: Visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has announced his government's readiness to support completing the Lumbini Master Plan, if a proposal was floated from the Government of Nepal.
August 29, 2018 12:08 pm
CARACAS, Aug 29: So far 100 bodies have been pulled from Sri Lanka’s second largest mass grave in Mannar, believed to be remnants of the country’s recent civil war, archaeologists say. “We have found 101 people and already moved 96 individual skeletons from the trench,” said Raj Somadeva, archaeologist and a forensic scientist at the University of Kelaniya
August 24, 2018 16:37 pm
KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Nepal has set a target of 324 runs against Bloomfield Club in the second practice match being held in Sri Lanka on Friday.
August 23, 2018 09:10 am
KATHMANDU, Aug 23: An opening burst of three wickets by Sompal Kami followed by Basant Regmi’s three-wicket haul has helped Nepal wrap up the first practice match against Lankan Army Cricket Club by 67 runs at Pangonda on Wednesday. Earlier, Aarif Shiekh’s 89 from 118 balls had propelled Nepal score 194 losing all wickets before dismissing the Army team for 127 runs to seal the win.