Daily NewsLine by Faraz
View All
Submit Your Press Release
Get your company news, announcements, launches, appointments and events in front of a wider audience.
Main Story
Cancer Doesn’t Stop the Bills. It Stops Your Wages Though.
Cancer patients already have to fight the disease. For many Sri Lankan families, they must simultaneously fight to keep the household going sometimes while wondering…
Politics
View All
Is There an Extortion Racket Inside Customs?
The Opposition has levelled an extraordinary allegation: that some importers are being pressured for payments through an organised system operating…
Namal is in Jail. The President Says the Law Doesn’t Know Your Surname
Namal Rajapaksa remains in remand over an alleged Rs 100 million payment linked to the SriLankan Airlines Airbus procurement. Now…
The MiGs Are Flying Again
Twenty years after Sri Lanka bought and refurbished MiG-27 fighter aircraft from Ukraine, former President and then Defence Secretary Gotabaya…
When the Prosecution’s Own Witness Becomes the Problem
A prosecution witness in the money-laundering trial of Yoshitha Rajapaksa has been accused by the Attorney General’s Department of giving…
Expose
View All
From 0.1% to 1%, From 1% to 10%, and $1.57 Million Disappears
Evidence before the Presidential Commission says critical coal specifications were altered between tender and contract - leaving Sri Lanka with US$1.575 million in excess payments…
Business
US$ 127 Million, but How Much Is Actually Coming into Sri Lanka?
Prime Melwa’s Port City development has been presented as a US$127.6 million investment and its marina-front project as a major vote of confidence in Sri…
Economy
Britain’s Thought Interest Rates Were Coming Down. Then Oil Went Back Above US$100.
The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates this week as the Middle East energy shock threatens another burst of inflation. British households…
Featured
