With support from the United States, the Attorney General’s Department inaugurated a state-of-the-art training center and launched an electronic system to track cases and legal files. These tools will strengthen the ability of justice sector professionals to uphold the...
The Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank signed today a $80.5 million additional financing to help Sri Lanka access and distribute COVID-19 vaccines and to strengthen the country’s vaccination system and pandemic response.
Mr. Sajith Attygalle, Secretary to...
On being told, on a recent sultry morning in Mumbai, that both her eyes would need to be removed, Neelam Bakshi, 47, could not cry. Her eyes were too stiff, dry, and swollen from the ‘black fungus’, mucormycosis.
“It took...
Twelve Opposition parties have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the Centre to take steps to speed up the vaccination of the entire country. The parties, including the Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena, TMC and DMK, have...
Marie Neige, a call center operator in Seychelles, was eager to be vaccinated. Like the majority of the residents in the tiny island nation, she received China’s Sinopharm vaccine in March, and expected to be fully protected in a...
The government is discriminating against a section of the minority by imposing a travel ban on three days beginning 14 th of May. Opposition Muslim Parliamentarians have alleged.
Muslims world over are celebrating the Holy Ramadhan Festival on Friday. Sri...
Increase the gap between two doses of Serum Institute of India's Oxford Covid-19 vaccine 'Covishield' to 12-16 weeks, an Indian government panel has recommended.
Currently, the interval between two doses of Covishield is four to eight weeks.
No change in dosage...
The Court of Appeal has affirmed theconviction of Colombo High Court to impose a five-year-Rigorous Imprisonment on former Akurana Divisional Secretary Mohomed HanifaMohomed Niyas for soliciting and accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000 for the purpose of granting approval of...
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura today confirmed the presence of the Indian variant of the coronavirus in a sample which was sent to them for testing.
However, this variant is likely to have been in the country for some time.
The...
The recent attempt on the life of parliament
Speaker and former President Nasheed is the
latest in a political history of intense factionalism and Islamic radicalism
Colombo, May 8: The Maldives, which is an Indian Ocean archipelago, is a tiny...
The senior counsel for the first female Deputy Inspector General of Police has clarified the position in respect of his client, after she was removed as the Police Ombudsman.
The lawyers that represent her has demanded the immediate reinstatement of...
A 25-year-old Malian woman has given birth to nine babies - two more than doctors had detected during scans.
Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali's government flew her there for specialist care.
"I'm very happy," her husband...
