Category: Local News

Four Post Offices and 28 Sub Post Offices across the country have been closed following the detection of COVID-19 cases.

The results of 2020 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination will be released within the day, says the Commissioner-General of Examinations.

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 situation is slowly turning as bad as India’s, warned JVP politburo member Bimal Ratnayake.

Several more areas in Colombo, Kalutara, Ratanpura, Gampaha and Nuwara-Eliya districts have been isolated with immediate effect, Commander of Sri Lanka Army General Shavendra Silva announced today this morning (May 04).

Sri Lanka has received its first batch of the Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.

National Zoological Gardens, Pinnawa Elephant Orphanage, Pinnawala zoological gardens and Ridiyagama Safari Park will be closed for the public until further notice from tomorrow (4), the Department of Zoological Gardens said.

A new hotline 1906 had been introduced to inform of delays of taking COVID-19 patients to hospitals, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said.

Transport State Minister Dilum Amunugma was sworn-in as the State Minister of Community Police Services before the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this morning (03).

Eight more Grama Niladhari divisions have been isolated in Kalutara, Colombo, Gampaha, Batticaloa and Nuwara-Eliya districts with immediate effect, the Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said.

In a Facebook post, SJB MP Harin Fernando on Saturday thanked his cardiologist Dr. Gotabaya Ranasinghe for giving him another shot at life.

It is not the working class people who make the decisions but ultimately, it is the working class people who suffer because of the Government, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on 1 May.

Information has been received that Corona patients are attempting to enter Sri Lanka by sea and officials have been instructed to be vigilant over this issue

The isolation on Piliyandala Police area will be lifted and 10 Grama Niladhari Divisions in Piliyandala Police area will be placed in isolation from 05 AM on Monday (03), said Army Commander General Shavendra Silva.

All offices of the Department of Registration of Persons will be closed until further notice, after taking into consideration the prevailing COVID-19 situation.

The permission has been granted allowing Ayurvedic hospitals to treat COVID-19 positive patients, Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID-19 Disease Control Minister Sudarshini Fernandopulle said.

Police arrested four individuals over financial fraud amounting to Rs.43 million of a bank account belonging to a leading steel wire manufacturing firm in the country.