Essential Food Commodities Importers & Traders Association says that the Essential Foods Wholesale Stores in Pettah will remain open today.

A soldier serving at the China Bay Air Force Base in Trincomalee has died after falling from a three storey building at the base.

Rescuers and volunteers were racing Monday to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the island nation’s biggest-ever mass beaching.

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday accused the Government of having failed to contain the recent COVID-19 wave and was instead blaming the public rather than taking responsibility for its shortcomings, while also calling for the resignation of Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi.

The Government could settle the loan premium of US$ 4.2 billion amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, although the political opponents thought otherwise, said Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication Presidential Task Force chairman Basil Rajapaksa yesterday.

Hemmathagama, Mawanella and Bulathkohupitiya police areas and the Galigamuwa Pradeshiya Sabha area in the Kegalle district have been declared as isolated zones until further notice.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 02 November 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Re-opening of all government schools for the third term has been postponed by another two weeks, states the Ministry of Education.

The Anunayaka of the Chapter Most Venerable Vendaruwe Upali Thera emphasizes that it is the responsibility of all the public to ensure their own safety without waiting for the government to provide everything during COVID-19 crisis.

Summary of the speech delivered by the Chairman of the National Movement for a Just Society, former Speaker Hon. Karu Jayasuriya, at the press briefing held on 02 November 2020.

A 27-year-old man who committed suicide in the Wekada area in Panadura has tested positive for COVID-19 reporting the 22nd COVID-19 death in Sri Lanka.

Arrangements have been made to distribute essential items through mobile vendors, as has been done during the curfew period.

The Commissioner General of Examinations Sanath Pujitha says that steps will be taken to conduct the GCE Advanced Level Examination without any hindrance in the areas where the curfew is in place.

Former State Minister and former MP for Batticaloa District Ali Zahir Moulana has urged the Government to facilitate burial of unfortunate Muslims who pass away due to COVID-19.

President Gotabya Rajapaksa has made several concrete decisions to curb COVID spread without disrupting public life and the economy.