By Ifham Nizam Despite the 2025 budget’s optimistic outlook, implementation remains the key to its success, warned Nandika Buddhipala, Chief Financial Officer of Commercial Bank PLC. Speaking at a ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has earned 13.5 billion rupees from casino and gaming taxes in 2024, a Finance Ministry data shows.

The local Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector will need to step up its efforts to tap international markets, as the ...

The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Islamabad facilitated a donation of human eye corneas to Pakistan, marking the 77th anniversary of the Independence of Sri Lanka. This initiative was organised with ...

The National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) commends the government’s 2025 budget, recognizing its strategic focus on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), export growth initiatives, ...

For the first time in South Asian maritime history, a luxury passenger cruise service will be launched from Colombo linking India (Cochin) and Maldives from next year. In another historic feature, ...

The National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) yesterday in a statement commended the Government’s 2025 Budget, recognising its strategic focus on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Net Profits at Sri Lanka’s National Development Bank grew more than 14 times to 4.88 billion rupees in the December 2024 quarter from 338.5 million rupees a year earlier, helped by a ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC), in collaboration with the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), successfully conducted an Issuer Awareness and Educational Session titled “Path to a ...

The arrested person worked as a Panchayat Development Officer in Yellapur in the Uttara Kannada district. He fled the country ...