LOLC Holdings’ Browns Investments Plc (BIL) has struck a deal to buy 85% stake of James Finlay Kenya tea estates business.

Internataional Monetray Fund (IMF) mission team will arrive in the island with in two weeks to review the progress of Sri Lanka’s economic reform program in several meetings to be held in Colombo by the end of the month.

Visiting Chief of the Air Staff of Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari donated two sets of AN-32 propellers to the commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana.

In the wake of an uptick in COVID-19 infections in the South-East Asian region, the Health Ministry in Sri Lanka urged the general public to abide by health precautions in the context of a slight increase in the number of cases already visible at present in the country.

The country’s population of retirees and demographic shift of experienced workers see a negative transformation with the current economic state of the country.

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has noted the extraordinary contribution made by the current US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung on the 120th anniversary of the arrival of the first Korean immigrants to America.

The increase of duty-free allowance given to expatriate workers at the airport will be in effect from yesterday (May 01), the Ministry of Labour & Foreign Employment says.

The Lotus Tower in Colombo witnessed its first skydiving event recently to promote the island's tourism industry internationally.

While expressing surprise on the US decision to blacklist him and his family from entering US, North Western Province Governor Wasantha Karannagoda yesterday said that there is ‘something else’ behind the move.