Finland’s police announced on Friday that they will investigate whether the Prime Minister’s breakfasts have been illegally subsidised using taxpayers’ money, the Hindu reported.

The All Ceylon Nurses’ Union has decided to resort to a trade union (TU) action from tomorrow (31).

A special police team will be deployed to record statements from the crew members including the captain of the ’’MV X-Press Pearl’ tomorrow in connection with the complaint lodged by the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) over the e

The Instructions relating to the admission of students to Grade One for the Year 2022 in State schools had been released today, the Education Ministry said.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Panduwasnuwara Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman R.P.D Sunil Jayaweera, who was receiving treatment at the IDH Hospital for COVID-19, died yesterday.

Former Parliamentarian Venerable Baddegama Samitha Thera passed away at the age of 68 this morning while receiving treatment for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Matara.

The COVID-19 vaccination drive will continue at eighteen centres in the Jaffna, Colombo, Matara, Kurunegala and Kandy districts today, the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said.

Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Indian and UK COVID-19 variants and spreads quickly by air, the health minister said on Saturday.

A total of 42 more COVID-19 deaths were reported bringing the death toll to 1,405, the Government Information Department said.

Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardena has informed the relevant officials to create extra doses of the Covishield Astra Zeneca vaccines from the liquid remaining in each vial which would be adequate to create more doses of the vac

A total of 788 more COVID-19 patients have been detected increasing the daily count of COVID-19 cases to 2,827, the Government Information Department said.

While issuing guidelines and proposals on managing mixed hazardous waste from the fire engulfed X-Press Pearl vessel, the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) said the coastal and other areas where the debris and waste from the vessel have accumulat

The national vaccination program will open up in Jaffna from tomorrow, as the Jaffna district has been one of the worst affected districts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the government’s special resettlement facilitation officer for the North and East

Trincomalee District Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarian Kapila Nuwan Athukorala has contracted COVID-19 and is receiving treatment at a private hospital in Colombo.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has taken steps to grant certain concessions with a view to meeting the challenges faced by businesses and individuals due to the third wave of COVID-19.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced that it will conduct the remainder of the 2021 IPL in the UAE. The decision was taken at a special general body meeting on Saturday.

A policeman, who was on duty at a checkpoint near the Ananda College in Maradana, reported to have not allowed the wife of a top ranked police officer-in-charge in the Colombo area to pass the checkpoint for jogging, has been transferred to another c

China says it saw only 119 cases of adverse events for every million doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered - a rate that is much lower than that reported for some Western vaccines, although there is little information on how the incidents were trac

Sri Lanka’s Control of Pesticides Act No. 33 (1980, amended in 1994, 2011, 2020) and National Policy and Action Plan on Prevention of Suicide (1997) has been nominated for the Future Policy Award 2021 organised by the World Future Council.

More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups as genocide.

A 28-year-old youth, who had tested positive with COVID-19, has escaped his home at Magazine Road, Borella, Police said.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

Global Sri Lankan Forum, a movement of Sri Lankans domiciled abroad, has requested Canadian High Commissioner David Mckinnon to take steps through his government to repeal the Tamil Genocide Education Week Act, 2021 (Ontario-bill 104) .

A total of 39 more COVID-19 related deaths has been reported taking the death toll in the country to 1,363, the Government Information Department said.

Catholic priests who are in charge of parishes in the coastal area which are affected by the fire in the ship MV-Express Pearl today expressed displeasure over the attitude of relevent persons who are keeping mum about the fate which the fishermen h

A dispatch of one million doses of Sinopharm vaccines will be released for delivery to Sri Lanka on June 6 under a commercial arrangement, a Minister said.

IGP C.D. Wickramaratne has directed police officers not to harass or embarrass the public during inspections and during implementation of quarantine law and said diciplinery action will be taken against superior officers, if such incident was reporte

While claiming that there was no procedure adopted by the Health Ministry for the people to get registered for vaccination roll out, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath today requested people not to act upon WhatsApp or SMS

A total of 2,573 more COVID-19 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals increasing the total number of recoveries in Sri Lanka to 146,362, the Health Ministry said.

Referring to the incident where Moratuwa Mayor Samanlal Fernando allegedly threatened a female doctor at a vaccination centre, Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Namal Rajapaksa extended his apology to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and said it was