Sri Lanka Cricket announced that Mahela Jayawardena a former Captain of the Sri Lankan Cricket Team has stated that he would retire from Test Cricket  after the forthcoming test series against South Africa and Pakistan.(KH/SI)

The Central Bank in its Monetary Policy Review for July 2014 says that the  low inflation environment has continued, with year-on-year inflation remaining benign in June 2014 recording its lowest level since February 2012, while the annual average inflation has trended downwards.

External Affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris, at his meeting with Shrimathi Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs of India, in New Delhi on Friday 11 July, recalled with pleasure her visit to Sri Lanka two years ago as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha as the head of an All-Party delegation. He referred to Shrimathi Swaraj’s constituency in the Lok Sabha, Vidisha, where Sanchi – the home of Emperor Ashoka’s children, Arhat Mahinda and Theri Sanghamitta – continues to receive a large number of Sri Lankan pilgrims every year.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid last respects to late Hema Godawatta, a former Director of Education, on Saturday.