President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants the country to shift towards using organic fertilizer and reduce dependency on chemical fertilizer.
According to a press release from the President’s Media Division, the President had drawn attention to promoting the use of organic fertilizer...
Fifty three protestors who were arrested this afternoon, (June 9) were granted bail when they were produced before Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake, late in the evening.
They were arrested when they gathered in the Colpetty area and near the Lipton Circus...
Sri Lanka is gearing up to open her shores to tourists from August 1, 2020, but with certain restrictions to ensure they are COVID-19 free.
According to guidelines released by the government, the main focus when tourism re-opens following the...
Heads of Public entities, Members of Director Boards etc. appointed by the current government will be asked to resign from their positions, if they plan to engage in political activity during the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
A media release from the...
The Coalition Against Violence and Harassment in Universities is urging Vice Chancellors and Directors of public universities to come together to eliminate ragging and all forms of violence at universities and to also protect leaders who are committed to...
The devastation that the Yellow Spotted Locust will leave behind will be worse than the destruction caused last year by the Sena caterpillar, warns Namal Karunaratne, the National Organiser of the All Ceylon Peasants Federation.
He explained that the Sena...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a new Task Force to ensure a disciplined, virtuous and lawful society through the proclamation of a Gazette issued on June 2, 2020.
The 13 member Task Force is made up mostly of serving and...
The Supreme Court dismissed the fundamental rights petitions that were filed challenging the parliament dissolution and date of the parliamentary elections a short while ago.
This was after a five-member bench heard the petitions for over a week.
The Election Commission...
Two more hospitals, the Old Hambantota Hospital and the Teldeniya Hospital, have been added to the list of COVID-19 Treatment Centres, with the dramatic increase in the number of patients infected by the virus in the last several days.
According...
Only 36% of undergraduates in the Faculty of Management Science and Commerce (FMSC), University of Sri Jayawardenapura possess all the necessary tools for effective e-learning, a survey reveals.
The survey carried out between 11th April and 10 May this year...
Travel between the districts of Colombo and Gampaha will not be allowed, even though the curfew will be lifted in these two areas as of Tuesday, May 26th, says a media release from the Presidential Secretariat.
The two districts have...
With the only petition challenging the date the parliamentary poll was scheduled to be held being withdrawn following the Election Commission’s Counsel informing Court that the election cannot be held as fixed on June 20 this year, the focus...
