Category: Local News

180 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 05, increasing the death toll to 10,320.

The Proclamation on the Emergency Regulations for the Supply of Essential Foods enacted by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was passed by a majority of 81 votes in Parliament today (06).

Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen, his wife and the father-in-law were further remanded until September 17 over the case of a teenage domestic worker who died of burn injuries while serving the Bathiudeen household.

Sri Lanka has received another consignment of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine today (06).

The JVP yesterday said that it would vote in Parliament against both the Proclamation of the emergency regulations by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (06) and the Finance Bill tomorrow (07).

Veteran singer, musician and leader of the popular band ‘Gypsies’, Sunil Perera has passed away at the age of 68.

189 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 04, increasing the death toll to 10,140.

India has sent about 150 tonnes more oxygen to Sri Lanka to help the island nation combat the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sri Lanka will cooperate with New Zealand’s investigation into a knife rampage by an Islamic State-inspired assailant from the South Asian nation, authorities said Saturday.

People are dying in their hundreds daily owing to the blunders of the government which did not listen to the experts, the JVP said on Thursday.

A shortage of US dollars has hit LPG (liquid petroleum gas) and milk powder importers, who are finding it difficult to honour payments to suppliers.

145 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 03, increasing the death toll to 9,951.

Sri Lanka Navy seized a foreign fishing vessel carrying a large haul of heroin in the international seas off the southern coast of Sri Lanka along with seven crew members.

Sri Lanka does not need to seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to meet any debt requirements of the country, State Minister of Finance, Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated yesterday.

202 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 02, increasing the death toll to 9,806.

Notorious drug trafficker “Sunshine Sudda” shot dead Notorious drug trafficker Amila Prasanna Hettihewa alias “Sunshine Sudda” was shot dead at Warakapitiya, Weligama in Matara, police said.