President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday instructed officials to provide organic fertiliser required by paddy farmers for the ‘Maha’ Season without any shortage.
Environmentalist Dr. Ajantha Perera yesterday questioned why the MV X-Press Pearl vessel that was refused entry into the waters of India and Qatar was given permission by local authorities to enter Sri Lankan waters.
The COVID-19 death toll in Sri Lanka climbed to 1,325 with 27 more deaths being confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today (27), the Government Information Department said.
An Extraordinary Gazette has been issued by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declaring several services as essential services considering the current COVID-19 situation in the country.
Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has placed his signature today (27) validating the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill which was passed in Parliament on May 20, 2021.
The JVP says countries that took objective decisions instead of arbitrary actions have managed to successfully contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The Ministry of Finance and the World Bank recently signed a new agreement to receive a grant from the European Union to support the Agriculture Sector Modernization Project (ASMP).
The COVID-19 death toll in Sri Lanka climbed to 1,298 with 29 more deaths being confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today (26), the Government Information Department said.
Acting Solicitor General Sanjaya Rajaratnam has been sworn in as the new Attorney General of Sri Lanka before President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today (26).
Sri Lanka has received 500,000 doses of Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine donated by China as the Indian Ocean island nation faces severe shortage of vaccines amid a recent rise in infections.
As COVID-19 has hampered the Vesak celebrations, commemorate it giving priority to understand the Buddhist teachings in a more pragmatic way, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said in his Vesak Poya Day message.
It is our societal duty in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic to dedicate ourselves to the protection and well-being of the lives of others as preached by the Buddha, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his Vesak Poya Day message.
