Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, in less than a month, concluded the immediate civil reconstruction and provision of equipment to establish a fully functional Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Negombo District General Hospital. This concludes the first step taken...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants to keep out foreign borrowing and rebuild Sri Lanka’s economy through investment opportunities.
Optimistic that the economy which has been negatively impacted by COVID-19 could be revived on a solid basis, he has instructed Ministry Secretaries...
All leave for Tri-forces personnel have been cancelled with immediate effect and until further notice, Army Commander Shavendra Silva announced on April 26, 2020. This includes short-passes. Therefore, all those service personnel currently on leave have been requested to...
The island-wide curfew will be relaxed on Monday April 27th at 5 a.m., except in the Districts of Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara and Puttalam, which will remain under curfew till 5 a.m. on May 4th.
A release from the Presidential Secretariat...
Muslims around the world begin the Holy Season of Ramadan on April 25th, while most countries battle the spread of COVID -19. And like the Christians who followed virtual services on-line or via television during the 40 day long...
Sixty five sailors all from the Welisara Navy Camp have been confirmed as infected by COVID-19. While thirty of them were identified on April 23, the others were confirmed yesterday, April 24th. With 17 other patients also testing positive...
All Navy personnel attached to the Welisara Navy Camp, and on leave, have been requested to return to Base to undergo Polymerase Chain Reaction ( PCR) testing, following 30 of their colleagues testing positive for the Corona virus, Army...
A group of 117 individuals and six institutions that handle human rights issues is calling on the Chief Justice to take note of the alleged interference by law enforcement officers in the ‘right of an officer of the Supreme...
The risk of a community spread of the corona virus has resulted in the Police instructing all mobile delivery agents such as individual vendors and those attached to grocery and food outlets to follow strict preventative measures or face...
The Constitutional Council is scheduled to meet tomorrow, April 23 says a press release from the Parliamentary Media Division.
Counterpoint understands that the meeting has been called to discuss the performance of the Independent Commissions.
In recent months, the Police Services...
Church bells will toll across the country today, April 21st at 8.40 a.m. to mark the first anniversary of the Easter Sunday bomb blasts that killed 259 people and injured scores of others.
The Head of the Catholic Church in...
Ending days of speculation, the Election Commission is stating that parliamentary elections will be held on June 20 this year.
Parliament was dissolved on March 2, and the election was scheduled for April 25th. However, with the spread of COVID-19,...
