“They are good sports, you know… kids. They take so many knocks, put up with so much. I think in the pandemic adults.....

Sri Lanka became the latest country to offer booster shots for individuals who have already been vaccinated against the COVID-19....

Early October millions of Facebook users around the world were unable to access the platform with what was recorded as one of the company’s biggest outages to date. Businesses on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were especially impacted as the plat

Ragging in Sri Lankan universities has overshadowed many bright futures and even cut short young lives full of potential. Deaths...

With the extract, Novavax plans to produce billions of doses of the vaccine, which would make it one of the largest COVID-19 vaccine suppliers in the world

Last week the Court of Appeal issued an interim order preventing the Director General of the Wildlife Conservation Department from granting permission for wild elephants to be registered under private owners.

Last week the Central Bank unveiled its six month road to recovery in ensuring the country’s macroeconomic and financial....

A young TikTok star and his friends are helping an ambitious gene editing programme that wants to help restore ecosystems and bring back extinct species

“The economy should grow steadily and sustainably. It should have a sound financial system, be resilient to shocks with inflation under control,”

When the Coronavirus started spreading rapidly across several countries in early 2020, another rage that spread as rapidly....

The relatively inexperienced team start their T20 World Cup campaign in October

On Thursday, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka imposed import limitations on a list of extensive non-essential goods effective immediately

A controversial new gazette has been issued seeking to employ elephants for work and tourism, which critics argue is a racket disguised as measures to protect Sri Lanka’s elephants.

A mysterious respiratory disease affecting puppies in the Central Province is resulting in the death of nearly all young pups infected....

For hundreds of expectant and new mothers, pregnancy and childbirth are nothing short of challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New study finds that the Covid-19 variant’s rapid spread is caused by infected persons who feel fine even after infection

“The cinema industry is not even a real industry in our country,” agreed all three guests who participated in a discussion on the future....

Sri Lanka is in crisis. Since April 2021, Sri Lanka saw a sharp increase of Covid-19 positive cases and deaths. Despite health....

With an accelerated vaccine drive ongoing, Sri Lanka is well on its way to achieve its vaccination goals ahead of the September target set out by the World Health Organization.

Checks and balances that are the foundation of the rule of law must be exercised so as to stop misuse of powers. However, reports have recently emerged claiming that public health justifications are allegedly used to restrict rights associated with f

Only a handful of countries or territories have been left with no active Covid-19 cases, as they managed to keep the deadly global pandemic at bay.

As nurses launch strike, doctors charge that critical patient care was compromised

On Monday Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry confirmed that three Covid-19 patients were suspected to have contracted the Delta Variant...

On Monday, Minister of Education G.L. Peiris said that online-learning centres will be established in every district to facilitate students who are unable to access virtual learning platforms.

In 2020, the world stopped. In the year since, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and worsened gender inequalities. Its impact on women and girls has been severe and disproportionate and it is already beginning to reverse decades of progress on gender equ

During the first five months of this year, more than 1,200 women dialed the 24-hour hotline: 1938 seeking help for physical, emotional or sexual....

I am a doctor working at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL), Colombo, and I lost two patients within 24 hours last week.

Curfews, lockdowns, or travel restrictions are generally understood as government regulations requiring people to remain indoors during specified hours.

The Attorney General’s Department has come under fire since the opening of an internal library facility on Wednesday, May 19.