Sri Lanka has suspended interest payment on a 175 million US dollar sovereign guaranteed bond of the national carrier and loans taken to build a China-backed airport and expand a runway at the main airport, a Finance Ministry report said.
Two former Sri Lanka skippers and renowned cricketers Roshan Mahanama and Kumar Sangakkara expressed their solidarity to the people’s struggle against the inefficient regime led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has urged Sri Lankan authorities to show restraint in the policing of assemblies and ensure every necessary effort to prevent violence, ahead of what is expected to be a large demonstration in Colombo on Saturday (July 09).
Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has decided to introduce three new methods to issue electricity bills, instead of the existing method of pre-printed bills.