Sri Lanka will get support from the World Bank Development Policy Financing Program, to support the on-going economic stabilisation and recovery process.

A team of officials from Sinopec visited Sri Lanka in order to finalise the agreements and commencement of operations for retail fuel sales, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said.

The Bank of Ceylon yet again set a record during Avurudu Season with over Rs. 174 billion worth of transactions taking place in its CDM, CRM and ATM terminals.

Sri Lanka’s Ceypetco has issued a tender to buy 500 ppm Sulphur gasoil contract cargoes for the first time in more than a year, a tender document on the company’s website showed on Monday.

The Commissioner General of the Inland Revenue Department, D.R.S. Hapuarachchi says that the department has collected Rs. 316 billion as tax revenue during the first quarter of the year 2023.

Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee port in the North East coast of the island has started night operations with equipment granted by the government of Japan, the Ministry of Ports and Aviation said.

According to a survey conducted by the National Physical Planning Department in Sri Lanka, urbanization in Sri Lanka has increased to 45 percent.

Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera says the government’s attention has been focused on providing a financial subsidy to the farmers who are cultivating paddy during the Yala season.

An agreement to the tune of USD 400 million was signed yesterday to build South Asia’s largest Commercial and Logistics Hub at the center of the Colombo Harbour.