For 130,000 metric tons of rice imported to the country and sold by the national supermarket Sathosa, a whopping commission of Rs 650 million was paid, an investigation by srilankamirror has revealed.

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian S. Sridharan claimed that China was waiting to trample Sri Lanka by using what was to be constructed as the so-called Port City at Galle Face Green in Colombo that was to serve as a facility for an oil pipeline from South Sudan to China.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday, that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘very interested’ in Sri Lanka and the region, and that this augurs well for Sri Lanka which is in the threshold of a new era.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  (UNHCR) and the European Union (EU) have undertaken to help the Sri Lankan government repatriate Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu and resettle them in the Island Nation, the Lankan Ministry of Resettlement has said.

Chief Justice Mohan Peiriswill not worry about the statements made by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) and will continue as the Chief Justice, his media spokesman has said.