- Supreme Court dismisses the Fundamental Rights petition which was filed seeking an order against the Govt’s decision to cap the interest rate of the EPF at 9% in line with the Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) process, without granting leave to proceed.
- Former UN Expert on Debt and Human Rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky asserts that linking state economic policies in debt restructuring with human rights is important in easing the burden of repayment of the Sri Lankan working class: analysts interpret this statement as a suggestion to provide an across-the-board write off of entrepreneur and personal debts on the same basis as that applied by the Govt to the public debt.
- Prisons Dept says the country’s prison population had grown rapidly since the start of 2023: asserts there are about 19,000 suspects in remand custody and about 10,000 prisoners, totalling about 29,000, although there is room for only 13,241 inmates within the prison system.
- Party Leaders decide to hold a single-day debate on Sri Lanka Cricket on August 24 and the debate on the No-Confidence Motion against Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella in the first week of September.
- CEB GM says the family which owns the tea estate through which power cables have to be laid to connect the Southern Province to the main transmission line of the CEB, have given their consent to the move without claiming compensation: also says that as a consequence, the CEB can complete the necessary work within 6 days.
- Lottery ticket sellers lament that after lottery ticket prices were doubled from Rs.20 to Rs.40 per ticket, the ticket sales have suffered considerably.
- Vavuniya High Court Judge Manikkavasagar Ilancheliyan sentences Chief Inspector Sugath Roshan Sanjeewa, who served as the Cheddikulam Police OIC at the time, to 6 months imprisonment and suspended it for 7 years, for concealing evidence in a car accident caused by former MP and journalist Sri Ranga: also orders that Rs.500,000 be paid as compensation to the wife of the Police Sergeant who was killed.
- The SL Embassy in Moscow initiates direct employment opportunities for skilled migrant workers in the Russian Federation, in collaboration with the Foreign Employment Agency: under this initiative, the first group consisting of 58 seamstresses arrive in the Russian Federation.
- SJB MP Buddhika Pathirana calls for an in-depth research to be conducted on the mythological King Ravana: notes that despite the absence of archaeological evidence, King Ravana holds a revered status as a deity among certain Sri Lankans; asserts that such research could contribute to enhancing public perceptions about the King.
- One of the best left arm bowlers produced by Sri Lanka, Daya Sahabandu, 83, passes away: he was a medium paceman and the best left-arm leg spinner of his time, and also opened the bowling for Sri Lanka.
