The Foreign Ministry has informed the Health Ministry that no country has made a specific COVID-19 vaccine compulsory when entering their respective countries.

The Government is using various factions to incite racism and extremism again instead of meting out justice to the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) charged today.

Tamil National People’s Front Jaffna District MP Selvarasa Gajendran and two others were arrested for violating quarantine regulations by holding a memorial observation for LTTE member Tileepan in Jaffna.

Doctors and professors who have thorough knowledge in our country’s geology have expressed that Sri Lanka is located closer to the centre of the Indo-Australian plateau and, therefore, there is a minor chance of an earthquake occurring.

A Red alert on thundershowers accompanied by severe lightning has been issued for 11 districts, the Department of Meteorology said today.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court has advised the Counsels for the aggrieved party to make an application before Colombo District Court to obtain the certified copies of the alleged forged last will of late Miss Ceylon 1962 Jennifer Ingleton (ne

A man sentenced to life imprisonment for drug trafficking after spending two years in jail was acquitted by the Court of Appeal observing that evidence of main prosecution witnesses, two police officers attached to the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) c

Claiming that she emphasized three years ago that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLPP) would be destroyed if aligned with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), former President Chandrika Kumaratunge said what she said three years ago had become a rea

Samagi Jana Balawegaya parliamentarian Manusha Nanayakkara yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition in Supreme Court seeking a declaration that appointment of former State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal as the Governor of the Central Bank by Pres

Health officials have urged the Government not to fully open the country when taking the decision to lift the prevalent quarantine curfew.

Public transport facilities will not be adequate and it will become the mode of spreading COVID virus again if the full strength public servants are summoned to work at once, Kelaniya University Medicine Faculty Prof. Arjuna de Silva said.

Administering Pfizer vaccines as shield against Covid virus for children between the ages of 12 and 19 will commence at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) Colombo tomorrow, the Health Ministry said.

PCR testing facility at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) was declared open today and will commence testing from Saturday (25), Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said a short while ago.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change.

Asking people to consume fresh milk is more expensive than buying milk powder to make a litre of milk, local milk powder importer associations said.

Russia will increase the number of regular flights to Sri Lanka starting from November 4, the anti-coronavirus crisis centre told reporters on Wednesday.

Top destinations Sri Lanka, Egypt and the Maldives are now off the red list for British travellers, but the Foreign Office (FO) still suggests against non-essential travel for holidaymakers according to their official website.

The Education Ministry is hoping to reopen schools that have lesser than 200 children from Grade five and below from October 15, Education Ministry Secretary Prof. Kapila Perera said.

The US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would grant emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older, people at high risk of severe disease and people whose jobs put them at risk of in

The peak of the Delta variant is now over in Sri Lanka and the number of deaths and infected patients have reduced but health authorities yesterday warned that there were 50% chances of another peak based on future pandemic behavior and probable muta

Sri Lanka has proposed to establish a Regional Knowledge Hub in Colombo in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), to facilitate exchange of lessons learnt from COVID 19 and support countries to build back better.

Controversial self-proclaimed spiritual healer Eliyantha White, who was infected with the COVID-19 virus, passed away a short while ago, sources said.

Investigations are being conducted on the statements made by Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera that a second extremist attack is imminent, Minister of Public Security Sarath Weekeraserna told Parliament today.

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the Incident in which a police officer was injured during a drug raid at Obeysekarapura in Rajagiriya.

High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, Milinda Moragoda, appointed with cabinet rank, presented his Letter of Credence to President Shri Ram Nath Kovind of India today (22) in New Delhi.

A total of 92 more COVID-19 related deaths that occurred yesterday (21) were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today pushing the death toll to 12,376.

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ruled that Japanese immigration authorities’ actions involving two Sri Lankan men were unconstitutional after the men said they were deported, having been denied refugee status, without enough time to take legal ac

Permission had been granted to keep bookstores open during the quarantine curfew period, the Police said.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Vadivel Suresh and UNP MP Ranil Wickremesinghe were engaged in a cross talk in Parliament today.

The Court of Appeal today issued an order directing officials of the Department of Wildlife Conservation not to release a cow elephant named ’Sujeewa’ and her three-month-old baby elephant back to the claimants until September 29. Accordingly, Su