Category: Local News

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the Government is ready to give its fullest support to the export sector to realize its full potential through correctly identifying and rectifying prevailing grievances and obstacles faced by it.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 11 June 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

30 Police officers who were deployed to disperse the protest staged by the Frontline Socialist Party, adjacent to the US Embassy in Colombo on the 9th of June, have been directed to a quarantine centre.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructed the officials of the State Development and Construction Corporation to pay attention to the construction of housing schemes for middle and low income families.

A 53-year-old man has been assaulted to death in the area of Mirihana last night (10), the Police said.

The government was using quarantine laws for its advantage, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake charged yesterday.

Places of worship are allowed to open for the devotees from June 12, the Government Information Department said.

Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election is scheduled to be held on August 05, the Election Commission said.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 10 June 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Former Minister Rajitha Senaratne, remanded over the ‘white van’ media conference incident, has been granted bail.

Police have seized the vehicle involved in the shooting reported at a restaurant in Soysapura, Moratuwa, and arrested the driver, in Piliyandala.

A doctor who stole over Rs.7.9 million brought to the Colombo National Hospital to pay overtime of employees was arrested by the police yesterday.

National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and Minister Wimal Weerawansa on Monday (8) said that the three-member Election Commission (EC) should take the responsibility for holding up the parliamentary polls as well as the conduct of its member Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole.

The U.S. Embassy did not request for the demonstration in Colombo to be blocked, the embassy said in a statement on Tuesday (9).

Former United National Party (UNP) Minister Mangala Samaraweera has decided to step down from the politics of being a member of parliament.

The Ministry of Education has decided to reopen all public schools under four stages, as the country is gradually returning to normalcy with no community coronavirus infections being reported for over a month.