COLOMBO: During Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit, Sri Lanka and China signed four agreements; namely an agreement on Economic and Technical Co-operation, the Letter of Exchange on the project of 2,000 subsidised housing units for the low-income category in Colombo, the Handover Certificate of the Technical Cooperation Project for the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference […]Read More

A meeting between Sri Lanka’s Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was scheduled to be held on Thursday has failed to materialise for what government sources indicated were scheduling issues, The Morning has learnt. However, the Minister of Finance did meet India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in New […]Read More

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa is expected to visit India in early December, while reports from the government stated that the impending Indian tour could even take place this week. The Finance Minister had sought meetings with several senior members of the Indian Government including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Ministers […]Read More

Emphasising that the policy of the government is to direct agricultural activity in the country entirely towards the use of organic fertilisers, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the officials who do not agree with it are free to leave. “Stressing the need for officials to seek solutions for the protesting farmers within the green agriculture […]Read More

The Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India has handed over documentation related to a request by Sri Lanka for an urgent line of credit, valued at $500 million, to the respective Indian parties for negotiations with the Sri Lankan Government, The Sunday Morning has learnt. “The EXIM Bank of India has given the documents to the […]Read More