Sri Lanka Medical Association has opened a helpline to guide Covid positive patients seeking treatment from their respective homes. Over two hundred medical officers are working round the clock to help the people through a toll-free line. People can...
The team of experts that looked at the environmental damage from the MV X- Press Pearl disaster earlier this year has identified two immediate risks that have to be eliminated. They are a sudden major oil spill of the...
As far back as June the University of Colombo had requested the Ministry of Health to allow the use of Ivermectin and Vitamin D to treat mild and moderate cases of Covid, especially with Sri Lanka being at a...
The Judicial Officers and lawyers have expressed dismay over a recently held Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meeting which is believed to have insisted on the Magistrates to use Sections 98 and 106 of the Criminal Procedure Code to control...
In one of the starkest warnings to date the Independent Expert Group assessing Sri Lanka’s Covid situation is predicting an explosion of new Covid infections in the next three months and is calling for an immediate restriction of mobility...
How many lives will it cost for this government to learn the lesson the corona virus is trying to teach? Many, many more, apparently.
At the time of writing, some 4727 lives have been lost to the corona virus in...
The Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate to India, Milinda Moragoda, has submitted to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a detailed blueprint for making Sri Lanka-India relations a “special” one marked by “inter-dependence, mutual respect and affection.”
The document, entitled “Integrated Country Strategy...
The world is witnessing the emergence of more infectious variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but a stuttering race to ensure equitable access to vaccines has seen a handful countries streak ahead, immunizing their own populations, leaving many of the...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka expressed its grave concern over the arrests and detention of protestors by the Sri Lanka Police for allegedly violating Health Regulations relating to COVID-19.
The BASL, in a statement issued today, urged the...
Matters are not going to get any easier for Sri Lanka cricket. A second-string Indian team is due to tour Sri Lanka for a tour that includes three one-day internationals and three T20 internationals. One would have to be...
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to exempt individuals from disclosing assets and income from investigation and prosecution upon the payment of 1% tax on Voluntary disclosures.
The decision is to encourage entrepreneurs to disclose and invest undisclosed income and...
The Government has been able to substantially reduce its foreign debt to GDP ratio to about 40 per cent and the face value of foreign debt from USD 34.1 billion at end 2019 to USD 32.2 billion by end...
