Category: Local News

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa requested the heads of research organizations to find ways and means to uplift a small country like Sri Lanka with a comparatively small population and an economy.

If the government doesn’t respond positively to his demands including the ban on madrasas within 24 hours, a new coalition would be built to challenge the government, Chairman of the Jathika Vijaya Darani Jathika Sabha, former MP Ven. Athuraliye Rathana thera yesterday said.

A second person in Sri Lanka, 44 year old man has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of presumptive coronavirus cases in the country to two.

Minister of Education Dullas Alahapperuma says all schools in the country will be closed until the 20th of April owing to the threat of the novel Coronavirus.

All school educational trips have been temporarily suspended due to Coronavirus threat in the country, the Education Ministry said.

The Police Media Unit issuing a statement noted that false reports claiming that several Coronavirus infected persons had been reported from various parts of the country.

Saudi Arabia has temporarily stopped all travel to and from Sri Lanka and almost all of Europe and 12 more countries in Asia and Africa, as the number of coronavirus cases in the Kingdom jumped to 45.

Commander of Sri Lanka Army, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva says that the army is carrying out a humanitarian mission at present with the ongoing quarantine process as coronavirus fears are spreading in the country.

Accepting nominations for the General Election 2020 will commence starting from today (12), says the Election Commission.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday instructed the authorities to suspend the on-arrival visa facility for foreigners arriving in Sri Lanka until further notice.

UNP members couldn’t obtain membership of another party as per the UNP constitution and those who violate that rule and contest from Sajith Premadasa’s Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) would immediately lose their party positions, former UNP Minister Wajira Abeywardena said, yesterday, addressing the media at party Headquarters Sirikotha.

World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has confirmed that the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic after choosing not to use that description for several weeks.A pandemic is when an infectious disease spreads easily from person to person in many parts of the world.

A three-judge bench was appointed by the Court of Appeal today to hear the writ applications filed by former MP Ravi Karunanayake and three others seeking an order preventing their arrests.

The passenger boat service from Wellawatte to Battaramulla was launched today.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has signed the nominations to contest the upcoming General Election.

First Sri Lankan COVID-19 (Coronavirus) patient in the country has been identified and currently being treated at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Angoda, according to sources.