Category: Local News

Sri Lanka’s central bank chief resigned Friday over “political and personal issues” as a foreign exchange crisis intensified and the government imposed new import controls.

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has directed a letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa requesting Presidential Pardon to be issued to former Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake who is imprisoned on charges of contempt of Court.

Sharing a post on Facebook, Ishini Wickremasinghe who resigned from the post of Director-general of the Department of National Zoological Gardens said yesterday she was helpless in protecting elephants being forcibly taken away from Pinnawala.

It has been reported that State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal is set to resign from his Parliamentary seat.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should maintain its rigorous scrutiny of Sri Lanka’s worsening human rights situation and press for genuine improvements, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.

131 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 09, increasing the death toll to 10,995.

The ongoing island-wide quarantine curfew orders will stay in effect until 4.00 a.m. on September 21 (Tuesday), the Cabinet Spokesman, Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella announced today (10).

Emergency regulations should be lifted as it has failed to reduce the prices of essential items, even after a week has passed since the imposition of the law, UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene said yesterday.

The JVP says health staff, committed to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus, are compelled to withdraw from services due to poor health facilities in performing their duties.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over this short span of less than two years has taken many measures to ensure national security and eradicate the underworld, drugs and crimes, Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne said yesterday.

This is a good time to appoint a special Committee headed by a former Chief Justice to furnish a report on persons who were involved in terrorist activities, Karu Jayasuriya, President of the National Movement for a Just Society said, issuing a press release.

175 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 08, increasing the death toll to 10,864.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the private company in charge of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority’s (NMRA) database, who was arrested over recent loss of data, has been granted bail.

The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, has decided to impose a 100 percent cash margin deposit requirement against the importation of selected goods of non-essential or non-urgent nature made goods…

A team including a senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya has developed an intermediate testing method for Rapid Antigen Tests and PCR Tests to identify COVID-19 infections.

Ishini Wickremesinghe has stepped down from her post as the Director General of the National Zoological Gardens.