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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has requested the Attorney General to consider instituting criminal proceedings against three pyramid-type prohibited schemes operating in the country. MORE..

20 Mar 2023 (5:39 PM)

The appeals filed by the defendants who were given the death penalty over the 2015 abduction, gang rape and murder of schoolgirl Sivaloganathan Vidya, seeking their acquittal from the sentences imposed on them, has been fixed for hearing by the Supreme Court. MORE..

20 Mar 2023 (7:33 PM)

The stretch of the Kandy-Mahiyangana Road which was closed near the second bend of the 18 Hairpin Bends (18 Wanguwa) has now been opened for traffic. MORE..

20 Mar 2023 (12:21 PM)

Three Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions filed requesting the annulment of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa s decision to pardon former MP Duminda Silva, who was convicted and sentenced to death over the murder of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, have been taken up for hearing once again today (March 20) before the Supreme Court. MORE..

20 Mar 2023 (8:44 PM)

The 18 Hairpin Bends (Daha Ata Wanguwa) section of the Kandy - Mahiyanganaya Road will be closed for traffic from 8.00 p.m. to 5.00 a.m. daily until further notice, the Ministry of Highways announced. MORE..

20 Mar 2023 (7:46 PM)

The Cabinet of Ministers has authorized the Finance Ministry Secretary or the Treasury s Deputy Secretary to sign the Promissory Notes and other required documents as soon as Sri Lanka receives the IMF-supported Extended Fund Facility (EFF) approval from the IMF Executive Board. MORE..

20 Mar 2023 (11:41 PM)

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a 48 #8209;month extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with an amount of SDR 2.286 billion (395 percent of quota or about US$3 billion), the international lender announced. MORE..

21 Mar 2023 (12:34 AM)