Category: Local News

The Colombo High Court today (August 03) released the four former Directors of Edirisinghe Trust Investments (ETI) Finance Limited over the Rs. 7 billion misappropriation case.

Police Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana stated that the police are conducting further investigations into the death of the 16-year-old girl who was working at the residence of MP Rishad Bathiudeen.

The junior staff of hospitals island-wide have decided to engage in a trade union action and report sick leave today (03) and tomorrow (04).

Colombo High Court Judge, Damith Thotawatta yesterday (2) deferred to 15 September further proceedings of the case filed against SJB MP Patali Champika Ranawaka and two others on charges of causing grievous injuries to two youth in a traffic accident in Rajagiriya in 2016.

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.