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Mayor Rosie appeals to donors to provide dry rations to the poor in Colombo

Colombo Mayor Rosie Senanayake is appealing to donors to contribute towards providing dry rations to at least 30,000 fam...

November 19, 2020 4 min read

Schools open Monday for Grades 6-13 everywhere except in Western Province

Sri Lanka’s Schools will open throughout the country from Monday, November 23 for Grades 6-13 except for the Covid 19 ...

November 19, 2020 2 min read

Govt to pay compensation to families of deceased migrant workers

Sri Lanka will pay LKR 500,000 as compensation to the families of each migrant workers who died due to COVID-19 overseas...

November 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka fails to sell 80-pct of Treasuries at auction

Sri Lanka has failed to sell 80 percent of Treasury bills offered at an auction on Wednesday, official data showed amid ...

November 19, 2020 1 min read
Burial of Muslim victims of Covid: “PM was expressing his personal opinion” - Gammanpila

The Co-Cabinet spokesman Minister Udaya Gammanpila says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was only indicating his private...

Sri Lanka yet to decide on permitting burial of Muslim Covid victims

It has been five days since the Prime Minister told Parliament that burial of Covid victims will be allowed but no chang...

Mahindananda accuses Kuwait of "sending us their patients" as government struggles with repatriation...

The government will hold a meeting today to formulate a new plan to repatriate migrant workers from the middle-east afte...

May 27, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus patients soar 137 to 1319 as returnee flights reviewed

Sri Lanka's daily new Coronavirus cases hit a new high of 137 on May 16 taking the total to 1,319 on driven by returnees...

May 27, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus cases spike to 1182 on Kuwait returnees, one death

Sri Lanka's Coronavirus cases spiked to 1182 by 1900 hours on May 25 from 1141 a day earlier the health ministry said, w...

May 26, 2020 1 min read

Curfew from 10 pm to 4 am islandwide from tomorrow, travel ban for Colombo and Gampaha remains

Curfew hours are further relaxed from tomorrow but travel restrictions remain in place for the Colombo and Gampaha distr...

May 25, 2020 1 min read

Jasinghe to politicians - "Don't drag us into your arguments"

Director-General of Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe is asking politicians and the general public not to drag him or oth...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 25, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19 Update - total diagnosed cases climbs to 1,141

The number of COVID 19 cases detected in the country spiked yesterday taking the total since the outbreak in Sri Lanka t...

May 25, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka to ramp down repatriations as Kuwait Coronavirus infections climb

Sri Lanka is likely to slow the pace of repatriating overseas citizens for a time as Coronavirus infections among return...

May 25, 2020 2 min read

Mujibur - Maligawatte tragedy happened because of poverty

The deaths of three elderly women caused by a stampede during an aid distribution event on Thursday in Colombo central i...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 23, 2020 3 min read
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COVID 19 Update - total number of patients in Sri Lanka now 1085

The total number of COVID 19 positive patients diagnosed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak has risen to 1085 with 17 more ...

May 23, 2020 1 min read

Eid Celebrations to be muted as curfew is enforced islandwide

It was a quiet Avurudu, then Vesak and now it's going to be a muted Eid celebrations as well this year as the usual larg...

May 23, 2020 2 min read
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Dr Anil Jasinghe has said polls can be held - Counsel Romesh de Silva

The Director-General of Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe has informed the Secretary to the President that the COVID 19 p...

May 23, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19: Total cases 1,055 as 27 cases are diagnosed yesterday

The total number of COVID 19 positive cases since the outbreak rose to 1,055 last night with 27 cases being added yester...

May 22, 2020 2 min read

PC Romesh de Silva submits that once dissolved no Parliament exists to be reconvened

Counsel for the Secretary to the President submitted to the Supreme Court today that dissolution ends the term of a Parl...

May 21, 2020 3 min read
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Government stops Rs. 5,000 payment; blames Elections Commission

The government will not provide the relief payment of Rs 5,000 per needy family for the month of June, in response to a ...

Imesh Ranasinghe
May 21, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19 forces temporary closure of Sri Lanka Embassy in Abu Dhabi

Sri Lanka’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi has been temporarily closed after five staff members were tested positive for the COV...

May 21, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Health Minister declares no more community spread of COVID 19

Sri Lanka’s Health Minister is declaring that for the past three weeks no COVID 19 positive cases have been reported f...

May 21, 2020 2 min read

Number of COVID 19 patients surpasses the thousand mark

The total number of patients infected with the COVID 19 disease has passed the thousand mark as the total reached 1,020 ...

May 19, 2020 1 min read

Counsel Corea - "President and the Cabinet are constitutionally responsible to the Parliament"

Holding Parliamentary General Elections at this time when the COVID 19 pandemic is claiming victims is dangerous and “...

May 19, 2020 6 min read
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Sumanthiran tells the Supreme Court - “A country without Parliament is not a democracy”

Hearings into the Fundamental Rights applications challenging the date of the elections and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...

May 18, 2020 3 min read

Thousands of Sri Lankans in Kuwait appeal for help as two flights prepare to bring the first batches...

Sri Lankan workers in the Middle East who play a vital role in providing foreign exchange to the country are appealing f...

Imesh Ranasinghe
May 18, 2020 3 min read