Category: Local News

The Government of Pakistan donated 10,000 metric tons (MT) rice to assist people who affected by the drought, the inauguration event held under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (07).

An island-wide protest on Friday by Sri Lankan doctors demanding closure of a private medical college crippled the health services, leaving thousands of patients unattended and threatening the investment climate.

Two women and one man have passed away after being admitted to the hospital over a food poisoning incident.

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday, said he would hold a meeting with all stakeholders to discuss the concerns raised on the new Inland Revenue Act , after the Sinhalese and Tamil New Year.

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) is to go ahead with the planned 24-hour countrywide strike tomorrow over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) issue.

The rehabilitated and modernised runway of the Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake, will be re-opened today from 12.30 p.m.

Those who built the Hambantota Port had expected all ships going past Sri Lanka to stop there for refuelling, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday.

Indian Congress MP and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor flagged India’s concerns over China’s presence in Sri Lanka

US Ambassador Atul Keshap yesterday extended his condolences on the passing away of the Most Venerable Aggamaha Panditha Davuldena Sri Gnanissara Mahanayake Thera of the Amarapura Sect.

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has urged Qatari nationals not to travel to Sri Lanka due to health reasons.

The entire country is likely to face a 24-hour power cut from midnight tomorrow due to a strike by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) workers, who are demanding the rectification of their salary anomalies.

Sri Lanka will not break with its violent past until it reckons with the cruel history of enforced disappearance and delivers justice to as many as 100,000 families who have spent years waiting for it, Amnesty International said in a new report.

The Department of Registration of Persons has taken steps to issue smart Identity Cards by the end of June replacing the ordinary identity card

Financial records of eight political parties released by the Elections Commissioner through a RTI request put forward by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), has shown the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) to be the most financially secure and asset rich party among the main political parties.

Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today refused to grant bail for MP Wimal Weerawansa on exceptional circumstance of his daughter being admitted to a hospital.

State Pharmaceutical Corporation Managing Director H.M.M. Rumie denied the reports that 53 varieties of medicines imported by the Corporation will expire between March and September.