Category: Local News

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya has introduced three hotlines for the general public to lodge complaints pertaining to challenges faced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the SJB hopes to intervene on behalf of the public.

Ruling party MP Jayantha Ketagoda said yesterday that Basil Rajapaksa, who is the founder of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) would enter Parliament only at the opportune time.

India’s Adani Group is the front-runner to develop Sri Lanka’s stalled East Container Terminal in Colombo port, people with knowledge of the matter said, helping billionaire Gautam Adani expand his port business overseas.

State Minister Channa Jayasumana yesterday (3) said in Parliament that he never claimed to use Ayurveda medicine Sudarshana Churna in forms of syrup, tablets or capsules in State western hospitals to prevent COVID-19.

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday that the country’s anti-COVID-19 campaign would have been stronger if the government had not got its priorities mixed up during the recent past.

Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, yesterday (3) told Parliament that she is even ready to sacrifice herself to the sea, if such an act can wipe out the COVID-19 pandemic from the country.

Another patient who tested positive for the COVID-19 has died today, marking the 23rd death reported in Sri Lanka due to COVID-19.

The ‘Isurupaya’ building of the Ministry of Education has been temporarily shut down after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.

The National Movement for People’s Power says the novel coronavirus has also entered into Parliament.

Another patient who tested positive for the COVID-19 has died today, marking the 22nd death reported in Sri Lanka due to COVID-19.

Essential Food Commodities Importers & Traders Association says that the Essential Foods Wholesale Stores in Pettah will remain open today.

A soldier serving at the China Bay Air Force Base in Trincomalee has died after falling from a three storey building at the base.

Rescuers and volunteers were racing Monday to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the island nation’s biggest-ever mass beaching.

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday accused the Government of having failed to contain the recent COVID-19 wave and was instead blaming the public rather than taking responsibility for its shortcomings, while also calling for the resignation of Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi.

The Government could settle the loan premium of US$ 4.2 billion amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, although the political opponents thought otherwise, said Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication Presidential Task Force chairman Basil Rajapaksa yesterday.

Hemmathagama, Mawanella and Bulathkohupitiya police areas and the Galigamuwa Pradeshiya Sabha area in the Kegalle district have been declared as isolated zones until further notice.