- US Under Secretary Victoria Nuland meets Foreign Minister Ali Sabry: reportedly raises concerns about the upcoming visit of Chinese research vessel Shi Yan 6: Minister Sabry reportedly says Sri Lanka can’t exclude China from docking in a Sri Lankan Port according to the SPO in place for foreign vessels.
- Former CB Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal says SJB MP Harsha Silva’s attacks on his testimony before the “PSC on Causes for SL declaring Bankruptcy” is an attempt to browbeat him from giving an accurate account of the events surrounding the bankruptcy announcement: also says the announcement was a part of a conspiracy: asserts he would expose those who engineered the organised bankruptcy.
- State Defence Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennekoon says SL risks facing more Easter Sunday style attacks: urges the legislature not to undermine intelligence services as their services were required to prevent the next attack.
- Ratnapura High Court sentences former Senior DIG of the Sabaragamuwa Province Lalith Jayasinghe to 5 years imprisonment for influencing the Kahawatte Police OIC to refrain from arresting MP Premalal Jayasekera in connection with a shooting incident in the lead-up to the 2015 Presidential Election.
- Education Minister Susil Premajayantha says arrangements have been made to ensure that school textbooks for next year will be distributed among the students, before the commencement of the 2024 school year.
- Police say there have been 77 incidents of shooting so far this year whereby 46 persons, including a 6-year-old, were killed and 35 persons were injured.
- A group of Tamil asylum seekers on a tiny British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean win their fight against being forcibly returned to SL.
- Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella says only 13% of the Pfizer vaccines imported to the country to immunize against Corona virus had been used and the rest destroyed after their expiry dates.
- Kandy Diocese Bishop and Chilaw Apostolic Administrator Bishop Valence Mendis says it is ludicrous that the Govt has chosen to appoint more Committees to probe the Easter Sunday terror attacks, instead of implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry which probed the carnage.
- Sri Lanka wins the Asian Games Women’s Cricket Silver Medal: lose to India by 19 runs in the Final: India – 116/7 (20 overs), Udeshika Prabodhani – 16/2: SL – 97/8 (20 overs), Hasini Perera – 25.
