President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over this short span of less than two years has taken many measures to ensure national security and eradicate the underworld, drugs and crimes, Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne said yesterday.

This is a good time to appoint a special Committee headed by a former Chief Justice to furnish a report on persons who were involved in terrorist activities, Karu Jayasuriya, President of the National Movement for a Just Society said, issuing a press release.

175 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 08, increasing the death toll to 10,864.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the private company in charge of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority’s (NMRA) database, who was arrested over recent loss of data, has been granted bail.

The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, has decided to impose a 100 percent cash margin deposit requirement against the importation of selected goods of non-essential or non-urgent nature made goods…

A team including a senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya has developed an intermediate testing method for Rapid Antigen Tests and PCR Tests to identify COVID-19 infections.

Ishini Wickremesinghe has stepped down from her post as the Director General of the National Zoological Gardens.

With COVID-19 claiming the lives of 40 expectant women, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, De Soyza Maternity Hospital (DMH), Dr. Harsha Atapattu appealed to married couples and even those with one or two children to delay getting pregnant by one year.

Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila has claimed that the USD 267 billion worth of oil and gas resources in the Mannar Basin could generate three times the total debt of the country.

Rice stocks, which were in warehouses belonging to large scale rice mill owners in Polonnaruwa, were taken over by the Government yesterday on the instructions of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

185 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed for September 07, increasing the death toll to 10,689.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the private company in charge of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority’s (NMRA) database.

Consultant Anaesthetist of the Colombo South Hospital Dr. Asoka Gunaratne, has stepped down from the COVID-19 Prevention Technical Committee yesterday (7).

The schools can’t be reopened under prevailing circumstances in terms of the bad COVID-19 situation in the country, the Health Ministry said.

The government had not understood the gravity of COVID-19 and the national implications of the pandemic, JVP MP Vijitha Herath told the media yesterday.

The government has suspended the project to construct a jogging track on the embankment of the ancient Parakrama Samudra tank in Polonnaruwa on requests made by Maha Sangha.