The government has cancelled all state functions scheduled for the next two weeks beginning today.
All private functions will also be cancelled under Covid prevention regulations, the government announced.
This decision is to prevent the rapid spread of Covid 19 throughout...
Only a vaccine can end the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has a systematic and strong programme in place to vaccinate the public. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emphasized that in order to overcome this challenge, the people must strictly follow all...
The Central government has announced the dropping of customs duty on COVID-19 vaccines, oxygen and equipment for the delivery of oxygen for a period of three months. The government said that the decision taken at a meeting chaired by...
In one of the most viscerally devastating days of the pandemic’s second wave in India, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, one of the biggest in the national capital and the country, reported on Friday morning that 25 severely ill patients...
Police today arrested former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday attack on three Catholic churches and a few hotels in Colombo.
The Easter Sunday attacks at least killed 279 and injured and maimed a large number.
Police...
A new coronavirus strain that is airborne and more potent than all those found previously in Sri Lanka has been discovered in the island nation, according to a top immunologist in Colombo.
The variant, which is highly transmissible, can remain...
The current stock of coconut oil that is in the country will be enough to meet consumer needs for only one week.
Raising the red flag on another looming crisis, the President of the Coconut ManufacturersAssociation Neomal Perera said that...
The relatives of those who have died during suicide bomb attacks at St Sebastian's Catholic Church in Katuwapitiya, Negombo and individuals who suffered injuries have filed 182 lawsuits so far before Negombo District Court claiming compensations from former President...
MP Geetha Kumarasinghe has appealed to the President to grant a presidential pardon to former MP Ranjan Ramanayake who is imprisoned for contempt of court.
Mr Ramanayake sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court for contempt...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has appointed a seven-member Parliamentary Committee to look into the incidents that took place on Wednesday within the precincts of the Parliamentary complex.
Meanwhile, Government Parliamentarian Tissakuttiarchchi had complained to the Welikada Police against MP Harin...
The US Senate on Wednesday (local time) confirmed Vanita Gupta to serve as Associate Attorney General of the United States, making her the first Indian-American to serve in this role.
According to CNN, the senate confirmed Gupta to be associate...
The Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank signed a loan agreement in the amount of $69.33 million for the Kandy Multimodal Transport Terminal Development Project, which will develop the Good Shed terminal in Kandy. Located at the...
