Sri Lanka has urged Myanmar to facilitate the rescue of the group of Sri Lankans held captive for forced criminal activities at a camp in the cyber criminal area operated by a terrorist group in Myanmar.

Scope Cinemas yesterday elevated the experience for moviegoers with the launch of a world-class IMAX theatre at the Havelock City Mall, Colombo 5.

Sri Lanka will review the progress of its economic and trade relations with Pakistan at the bilateral discussions set to take place at the end of this month, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced yesterday.

Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe expresses confidence in shaking off status soon

Weekly economic review

One of the world's most powerful drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, has been arrested by US federal agents in El Paso, Texas.

Bangladesh citizens have hit out at their leader Sheikh Hasina who was photographed crying over destruction at a train station, with some saying she shed "crocodile tears".

Sri Lanka has on average about 12,000 electricity customers who are without electricity after being disconnected for not paying bills, and not a million or hundreds of thousands as claimed, Power Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

The Cabinet of Ministers has recently approved President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Cabinet Memorandum to implement the “National Agenda for Anti-Corruption.”

The Central Bank trimmed the policy rates by 0.25 percentage points. While the decision caught some sections of the economy off guard, others were not surprised.