Category: Local News

Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya Sajith Premadasa says the party is prepared to engage in a fight alongside the public to obtain concessions for water and electricity tariffs for the months of March and April.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the Diyawadana Nilame and Basnayaka Nilames to organize this year’s Peraheras (procession) at main places of worship and Devalas giving priority to traditional and religious rituals.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 12 June 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

The body of a man which was found with gunshot wounds near the Independence Square in Colombo this morning was identified as 63-year old Rajeewa Prabash Jayaweera.

Former Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella says health guidelines issued for the conduct of the General Election are impractical.

While condemning Tuesday’s assault on Frontline Socialist Party Protestors by the Police, Co-cabinet Spokesman Information, Higher Education and Innovations Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena yesterday said that the attack was only a counter-attack made in response to an attack by the protestors and not an attack launched on an order of the Government to suppress the protestors.

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.