Category: Local News

With COVID-19 claiming the lives of 40 expectant women, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, De Soyza Maternity Hospital (DMH), Dr. Harsha Atapattu appealed to married couples and even those with one or two children to delay getting pregnant by one year.

Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila has claimed that the USD 267 billion worth of oil and gas resources in the Mannar Basin could generate three times the total debt of the country.

Rice stocks, which were in warehouses belonging to large scale rice mill owners in Polonnaruwa, were taken over by the Government yesterday on the instructions of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

185 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 07, increasing the death toll to 10,689.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the private company in charge of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority’s (NMRA) database.

Consultant Anaesthetist of the Colombo South Hospital Dr. Asoka Gunaratne, has stepped down from the COVID-19 Prevention Technical Committee yesterday (7).

The schools can’t be reopened under prevailing circumstances in terms of the bad COVID-19 situation in the country, the Health Ministry said.

The government had not understood the gravity of COVID-19 and the national implications of the pandemic, JVP MP Vijitha Herath told the media yesterday.

The government has suspended the project to construct a jogging track on the embankment of the ancient Parakrama Samudra tank in Polonnaruwa on requests made by Maha Sangha.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday warned against travel to Sri Lanka, Jamaica and Brunei because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

184 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 06, increasing the death toll to 10,504.

Sri Lanka’s finance minister said Tuesday the island faces a “dangerous foreign exchange crisis” but the government denied it would seek an international bailout.

The Finance Bill which was debated in Parliament today (07) has been passed with amendments by a majority vote.

The government has decided to impose an import tax of Rs. 40 on Big Onions with effect from today (07), Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage stated.

The Peradeniya University has been ranked among the best 500 Universities in the world according to The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022.

Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have been advised not to over-exert and do strenuous exercises They just need to be careful for a few weeks before they can return back to their normal lives…