The government would seek Parliamentary approval for a supplementary estimate of Rs.130 billion when Parliament meets on February 5, to settle unpaid bills of contractors, suppliers and other entrepreneurs who have undertaken various development and

Foreign Relations Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha today said the Chinese Government is expediting the request made for a special aircraft landing in Wuhan City which will allow the evacuation of the Sri Lankan students and their family members.

The Working Committee of the UNP today decided to continue with Ranil Wickremesinghe as the UNP leader, the party said.

The Working Committee of the UNP has elected Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa as the leader of the UNP led alliance UNF, and as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party.

Attorney General Dappula De Livera today filed amended indictments before the Trial-at-Bar in Avant Garde arms trafficking case consisting of 882 charges, AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said.

The Central Bank has submitted to Parliament the five complete Forensic Audit Reports together with the annexures and exhibits with regard to the CBSL bond scam, Parliament sources said today.

A man and his wife were found dead inside a business establishment at Devananda Mawatha in Nawinna today, police said.

The Education Ministry torday said that the validity period of vouchers for school uniforms and footwear would be extended until February 28.

The National College of Education, Sri Pada has been temporarily closed down till February 5 due to an outbreak of a viral fever.

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa’s loyalists have decided to boycott today’s UNP working committee meeting as a protest against the decision to sack some members from the committee.

India has reported its first confirmed case of novel coronavirus in Kerala. The patient is a student studying in Wuhan University, China.

Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake and former minister Imtiaz Bakir Makar were sacked from the UNP Working Committee last night, UNP MP Harsha de Silva said in a twitter post.

China’s Aviation Authority has approved chartered flights to bring home from overseas trips some residents of the central city of Wuhan, the site of an epidemic caused by a new virus, state television said on Thursday.

Three persons including two females were arrested with 192 kgs of heroin, 10 pistols and 10 magazines, Police Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne said.

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it is temporarily shutting down all its offices in China due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus in the country.

The United National Party (UNP) has decided to sack its Kalutara District MP Ajith P. Perera and National List MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka from the party’s working committee on the grounds of violating party discipline, sources said.

UNP working committee will meet today at Sirikotha to decide on the future course of action by the party, its General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said yesterday.

The nationwide death toll from China’’s novel coronavirus epidemic has jumped to 170 with 38 more fatalities reported mainly from the worst-affected central Hubei province, the government said on Thursday, while confirming more than 1,700 new inf

Myanmar appealed to Sri Lanka to stop the abuse of the elephant it donated to a Buddhist temple six years ago, the Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday.

The education ministry has issued a set of guidelines to protect schoolchildren from infection with the New Coronavirus outbreak.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday there was no need to develop irrational fear over coronavirus as it would only lead to unnecessary stress and fear psychosis.

The Department of Indigenous Medicine of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) yesterday introduced a syrup and a powder to enhance immunity, as a precautionary measure to prevent being infected from new coronavirus and all other communicable diseases.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his predecessor UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had a discussion with regard to Coronavirus crisis where the latter had said his party will support the government to resolve it.

Sri Lanka still lacks necessary equipment to carry out experiments on Coronavirus and there are certain steps that have to be taken in this regard, United National Party (UNP) said yesterday.

Chinese authorities have established an all-dimensional and multi-level epidemic containing network where CPC Central leads governments at all levels, and has been putting great efforts in Wuhan and other much infected Hubei cities.

The Government has not so far made it compulsory for people and schools students to buy and wear masks in the wake of Coronavirus epidemic prevailing in several countries in the world, Minister Banduala Gunawardane said today.

Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa today urged the government to provide face masks free of charge to the people and to break the mafia that had been started by some unscrupulous sellers.

While claiming that the screening process at the airport to detect coronavirus infected people was not sufficient, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today the Government should adopt a mechanism with high-technological equipment to detect infe

The Health Ministry has informed regional Medical Officers of Health, Medical Directors, epidemiologists to check the Chinese employees working in construction sites countrywide as to determine whether any of them is infected with Coronavirus, Deputy

A number of airlines including United Airlines, British Airways, South Korea’s Air Seoul and Air Canada have cancelled, suspended or rescheduled their flights to mainland China due to deepening fears over the spread of New Coronavirus, foreign medi