A census of population and housing is due to be held after a delay of two years.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued the relevant gazette notification that the census be held for 2023 and 2024.
The Department of Census and Statistics was preparing to conduct the census in 2021, but due to the outbreak of COVID19 the census could not be held.
The last census has been carried out in 2012.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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