Survivors from the Iranian naval vessel IRIS Dena, which was sunk in a U.S. attack earlier this year, have departed Sri Lanka for Iran.
Minister of Health and Mass Media Nalinda Jayatissa spoke at a ceremony in Colombo, where 731 individuals were recruited to the postal service.
The individuals detained were aged between 18 and 43.
Mr Semasinghe said that in 2022, Sri Lanka’s public debt ratio stood at 128 per cent, a figure slated to be reduced to less than 95 per cent by 2032.
Earlier, the board urged the public to save water as its capacity to supply purified drinking water has dropped to nine per cent.
According to the World Bank, the economy will continue to face significant challenges in 2023 and beyond.
Dozens of Sri Lankan students at a school in a suburb of Colombo were hospitalised on Wednesday after exposure to a toxic vapour, the police said.
The police have yet to determine the cause of the fire.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned from the post of president last week following massive protests.
Mr Wickremesinghe, who served as the country’s prime minister four times, was in October 2018 fired from the post by Sri Lanka’s seventh president, Maithripala Sirisena.
