Iran expressed willingness to grant a concessionary period for the repayment of the country’s huge oil debt amounting to US $251 million accumulated during the period of US economic sanctions imposed on that country, official sources said.

The passage of the Office of Missing Persons bill (OMP), albeit in controversial circumstances in Parliament, augers well for the forward movement of the reconciliation process, says the National Peace Council.

Sri Lanka’s national food and packaging expo, Pro Food Pro Pack has, in a short span of 15 years, grown to become one of largest such South Asian expos to be held.

In a expert study conducted recently it has been found out that most licenses to build mini hydro power plants that led to mass destruction of ecosystems were issued under the Good Governance regime.

Actress and director Nadeesha Hemamali and a former Sri Lankan A team cricketer Bathisha de Silva are to enter into wedlock in the near future.

A lankadeepa online article to the effect that a person by the name Rohan has told courts that it was not him who had deposited Rs. 15.7 million in an account of Amtrad Holdings Ltd. on behalf of funds of Yoshitha Rajapaksa’s CSN channel is false, reliable sources told Sri Lanka Mirror.

The Exim Bank of China has agreed to fund all the projects in the Chinese project pipeline and a priority list of projects will be submitted to the bank to obtain funding on priority basis, a senior government minister said.