Category: Local News

Former Deputy Minister Abdullah Mahrooff has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department on allegations of misusing vehicles of Lanka Sathosa.

The Cabinet of Ministers has granted the approval to remove the english letters denoting provinces on vehicle number plates.

A Sri Lankan doctor residing in the United Kingdom, one of the first few to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine says the vaccine has been a blessing and encouragement to continue treating patients. “The vaccine is the only security we have,” he said in an interview with BBC Sinhala.

The claim that the burial of dead bodies of COVID-19 victims could lead to the spread of coronavirus is nonscientific, says Professor Malik Peiris, a world renowned Pathologist and Virologist, currently serving as the Chair Professor of the Department of Virology at the University of Hong Kong.

Addressing the media yesterday, Attanayake said that once the draft constitution was approved, members would be appointed to party positions on the Leader’s recommendation through the Working Committee with the approval of the Management Committee.

Riyaj Bathiudeen, brother of MP Rishad Bathiudeen, said Mohamed Ibrahim Inshaf Ahmed, the suicide bomber who attacked the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo on 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, was married to the daughter of his relative and that he also attended the wedding.

Two more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

Outrage is mounting in Sri Lanka after at least 15 Muslim coronavirus victims, including a baby, were cremated against family wishes and in contravention of Islamic tradition.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya Parliamentarian Harshana Rajakaruna says thousands of citizens have lost employment owing to the coronavirus.

A 37-year-old man suspected to be a close associate of notorious criminal Angoda Lokka was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) in Angoda in Mulleriyawa police area.

The National Carrier of Sri Lanka and a member of the oneworld Alliance, SriLankan Airlines is set to increase the frequency of passenger flights from Colombo to Singapore from once a week to thrice a week, commencing 18 December.

With Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka resigning from the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and joining the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), expecting to be offered a top post, such as Deputy Leader of the Party, a highly controversial situation has arisen within the SJB.

BBC Journalist Shirley Upul Kumara rejected allegations that his interview with former President Maithripala Sirisena had been distorted.

Three more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

Isolation curfew imposed in several parts of Colombo will be lifted tomorrow, while several areas will be under lockdown from tomorrow, the 14th of December.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has informed the National Research Council (NRC) of Sri Lanka to expedite the process of scientific validation of indigenous medicines and treatments developed for COVID-19.