The Finance Ministry has decided to impose a special commodity levy on several imported items. 

The items include grapes, apples, oranges, dates and yoghurt. 

A special commodity levy of Rs. 1,000 per kg has been imposed on yoghurt, butter and spreads manufactured using milk. 

A special commodity levy of Rs. 400 per kg has been imposed on all...

Former President Juan Orlando Hernández should be extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking and weapons charges, a Honduran judge ruled Wednesday.

The country’s Supreme Court of Justice said late Wednesday via Twitter that the judge had decided to grant the U.S. extradition request.

U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of New...

Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is on official visit to India on an  invitation of the Indian Government, met the Minister of Power and New - Renewable Energy of India Shri Raj Kumar Singh in New Delhi, today (17).

Minister Singh, recalling the age-old close relations between India and Sri Lanka, extended a warm welcome to the...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that there is no truth in the reports that the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Ajith Nivard Cabraal, has been asked to step down. 

In a statement issued by the PMD, the President is quoted as saying that he has every confidence in the Governor of the Central Bank, Ajith Nivard Cabraal, who will...