Category: Local News

The Government will not spare anyone proven to be involved in the Easter Sunday terror attacks, Irrigation and State Minister of Internal Security, Home Affairs and Disaster Management Minister Chamal Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday.

Police curfew has been imposed in several police areas in Gampaha District with immediate effect, stated Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.

The Health Ministry today informed the public and organisations to refrain from organising, promoting or conducting any event that forms a public gathering until further notice.

Curfew will be imposed within the Gampaha police division with effect from 6.00 p.m. today (06).

Parliamentarian Sadasivam Viyalanderan has been sworn in as the State Minister for Rural Development, Promotion of Domestic Livestock and Minor Crops.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 06 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is ready to suspend confrontational politics and provide whatever support the government may need to curb the new situation that had arisen with regard to COVID-19, an MP attached to the party said yesterday.

Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando should be held fully responsible for not preventing the bombings on Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019, former President Maithripala Sirisena said.

Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne said that the speech he had made during an opening ceremony of the Vavuniya Kachcheri Auditorium had been distorted and misinterpreted tarnishing his integrity and reputation.

The President’s Media Division (PMD) requested people not to fall prey to false news circulating on social media sites saying that an island-wide curfew will be imposed tomorrow.

Two more employees of the apparel factory in Minuwangoda where the COVID-19 patient from Divulapitiya worked have been confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus.

2,000 persons, including employees of the apparel factory in Minuwangoda, their associates and several school children will undergo PCR tests today.

Two more employees of the apparel factory in Minuwangoda, where the COVID-19 patient from Divulapitiya worked, have tested positive for COVID-19.

The hearings of the petitions filed against the 20th Amendment to the Constitution has been concluded by the five-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court today.

Sixty-nine contacts of the Divulapitiya COVID-19 patient have been tested positive for COVID-19 infection.

Buses will only be allowed to carry passengers according to their seating capacity, State Bus Transport Services Minister Dilum Amunugama said.