Disregarding average market prices, PCR testing kits had been bought from a bidder who quoted a higher price at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus causing a financial loss of more than Rs. 125 million, the Auditor General’s 20...

Sri Lanka’s gross official foreign exchange reserves fell to 2,267 million US dollars in October 2021, down 73 percent from August 2019 data show, when inflationary policy began with the central bank started buying bonds to target an output gap.

Strengthening the long-standing close partnership between Germany and Sri Lanka, the German government proposed to convert the supplementary loan obtained from the German KfW bank for completing the New Maternity Hospital (Teaching) Galle into a grant, Finance Ministr...

Sri Lanka aims to make a ‘significant reduction’ in the country’s runaway fiscal deficit in 2022 and have a ‘non-traditional budget’ senior officials said as the country is also facing severe monetary instability due to artificially low i...