Category: Local News

Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) and the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health (CWCDH) have introduced the COVID Shield app to Sri Lanka to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa has requested the government to withdraw the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University bill immediately.

Copies of birth, death, and marriage certificates will be issued online from today (August 02), the Registrar General’s Department said.

Despite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s announcement mandating public servants to return to work, academic staff in schools around the country will not report to work.

Head of Virology at the University of Hong Kong, Professor Malik Peiris has warned that the worst for Sri Lanka is yet to come, and it will hit the island in the coming months.

Investigations disclosed that three of the eleven women who had served as domestic workers at MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s residence in Colombo since 2010, have died.

Popular singer Umaria Sinhawansa was arrested by the Welikada Police last evening (31) following an accident near the Rajagiriya flyover.

Sri Lanka’s ban on all types of non-degradable lunch sheets will be implemented from today (August 01) onwards.

Despite close to 250 people dying from COVID-19 this week and daily COVID positive cases exceeding 2,000 during the past few days, the Government is determined to fully resume public services from tomorrow in a move that will bring thousands of state sector employees to Colombo and its suburbs via public transport.

Matale District SLPP MP Rohana Dissanayake has submitted a private member’s motion seeking parliamentary approval for a nationwide project to capture and sterilise stray monkeys.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed officials to conduct an island wide survey on those who have not obtained any vaccine against COVID-19.

All localities in Sri Lanka that were placed under isolation have now been released from the orders, the Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says.

Veteran actress Hyacinth Wijeratne has passed away in a motor accident that took place last night (July 30).

The government has decided to call all employees of public service back to duty from August 02 (Monday), subject to COVID-19 health guidelines.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today (July 30) released former Deputy Minister Sarana Gunawardena from the charges in 08 cases filed against him by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC).

A man was arrested with 40 kg of heroin which has a street value of Rs. 400 million during a raid at Rerukana in Bandaragama early this morning (July 30).