Category: Local News

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa urged the education authorities not to let the COVID-19 to hinder implementation of plans for the advancement of education from pre-school to university level.

The newly appointed members of the Elections Commission of Sri Lanka are due to assume duties tomorrow (December 10).

The JVP charges that the government encouraged the public to pursue a COVID-19 cure without any scientific confirmation.

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday criticized the government alleging that it is holding off public transportation development projects initiated by the previous government.

The Easter Sunday attacks would not have taken place if officers doing their job properly had not been obstructed, former Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) Director DIG Nalaka Silva yesterday told the PCoI probing the Easter Sunday attacks.

The Cabinet has drawn its attention on whether the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) is functioning optimally, in terms of achieving their objectives.

Sri Lanka announced Tuesday the first large-scale Chinese investment in manufacturing in the country, a $300-million tyre factory near a strategic deep-sea port.

Sri Lanka recorded its youngest COVID-19 related death as a 20-day old infant who had contracted the virus passed away at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital today (08).

Sri Lanka’s first State-owned and largest Wind Power Plant, Thambapavani with a capacity of 100-megawatt was declared open by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in Mannar today (08).

A decisive discussion pertaining to the National List of the Our Power of People Party will take place today.

SJB Gampaha District MP Field Marshal Sarath told Parliament yesterday that it was he who had got Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera the post of Commandant of the Civil Defence Force, when the latter was without a job.

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader, Member of Parliament R. Sampanthan informed a group of journalists in the Northern Province, since his Party was not affiliated to the proscribed terror group, the LTTE, no one could either intimidate or ban them locally.

Prison Management and Prisoners Rehabilitation State Minister Lohan Ratwatte, emphasizing the present congestion in prisons given the rising numbers of inmates, stated that the Government should reduce the number at least by 8,000.

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

The G.C.E. Ordinary Level Examination is scheduled to be held from the 1st of March to the 11th March 2021.

A group of Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and student public health inspectors serving in the Gampaha District have been directed to quarantine.