Additional Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) buses have been assigned to facilitate the passengers who are affected due to the current train strike, SLTB Chairman Kingsley Ranawaka said.

The three large-scale beverage companies that manufacture soft drinks using Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles have been instructed to come up with recycling plan within two weeks before banning them, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera sai

The message of Basil Rajapaksa entering Parliament as a national list MP has instilled fear among the members of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), United National Party (UNP) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). They are more scared than to coronavir

Twenty persons including eight females who had attended a wedding ceremony at a home at Pallemulla in Panadura in violation of quarantine laws have been quarantined for 14 days at the same place.

The Colombo Municipal Council’s (CMC) Public Health Department today requested that people who are over 30 years of age to get their first Sinopharm vaccine at a CMC vaccination centre.

Seventeen individuals including the mother of a 15-year old girl have been arrested by the Police Children and Women’s Bureau in connection with sexually exploiting the girl for over three months.

Claims to bring Basil Rajapaksa to Parliament to develop the country proved that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has already failed, JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday.

The Embassy of China in Sri Lanka has affirmed that the employees engaged in the ongoing project to remove silt in the ‘Tissawewa’ tank in Tissamaharamaya, are not members of the People’s Liberation Army and it is the respective overseas compan

Former JVP MP Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa today alleged that the Covid Task Force has been irresponsible and was acting on political needs rather than on health needs.

According to the daily report issued by the health Ministry, there is a gradual decline in conducting PCR tests, Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) Secretary Dr. Shenal Fernando said.

With the opening of shopping malls and clothing stores in the Western Province, despite ordered not to, the risk of COVID-19 spread could be aggravated, Provincial Director of Health Service in the Western Province Dr. Dhammika Jayalath warned.

Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Atul Keshap, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, is set to serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim,in New Delhi following the retirement of Ambassador Daniel Smith.

The medical experts have warned that the Indian variant known as Delta would be the dominant variant in the country in about ten weeks if proper measures were not taken at correct time.

Rapid Antigan Tests (RAT) and COVISHIELD Covid-19 vaccination rollout in the Wellawatte MOH office at the Wellawatte market and Kirulapone. Pix by Pradeep Dilrusksana and Nisal Baduge

Following requests of University Vice Chancellors, the attention of the Education Ministry was drawn to provide COVID-19 vaccine to all students, including university academic and non-academic staff and this gives an indication that the universities

Following the tragedy of the MV X-Press Pearl cargo vessel, which had burnt and sank in Sri Lankan waters, only 40% of the plastic micro pellets in the ship have washed ashore and there was no trace of what had happened to the remaining 60%, Environm

A local businessman was arrested with a consignment 1,500 kg of ghee while attempting to smuggle them into the country by declaring them to customs as lamp oil, Customs Deputy Director (Legal) and media spokesman Sudatta Silva said.

Two currency swap arrangements in the pipeline with India’s Reserve Bank are key components in the immediate work plan of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to boost its reserves, bank’s chief WD Lakshman said.

The government has launched a program to provide dry rations to places of worship in distress due to non-receipt of alms from donors due to the island-wide Covid breakout and travel restrictions.

Cricketers Kusal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella & Danushka Gunathilaka who faced suspension and were recalled for breaching the bio-bubble during England tour arrived in Sri Lanka a short while ago.

An investigation has revealed that the Chinese military is not present in Tissamaharama, Cabinet co-spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said today.

The government today approved allowing relief to employees in the tourism sector, particularly those affected by the crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Two construction workers attached to a building site in Slave Island were happened to be close associates of the person who was found infected first with Delta varient of COVID-19 are suspected to have been infected with the same variant, Chief Medic

Cabinet Spokesman, Keheliya Rambukwella said that with over 100 Covid positive patients being reported from among arrivals from the Middle East, the Government was compelled to enforce the temporary ban.

Prof. Neelika Malavige (immunologist) attached to the Sri Jayewardenepura Faculty of Medical Sciences has resigned from the independent vaccine advisory expert committee of the drug regulator.

Several areas in Colombo and Gampaha Districts have been isolated from 6 am this morning,the National Operations Center for Prevention of COVID-19 said.

Two doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine administered 44-45 weeks apart generated nearly four times the level of antibodies than when the doses were given 8-12 weeks apart, says a report by the Oxford Vaccine Group, the developers of the vaccine, on Mond

State Minister of Minor Export Crops Janaka Wakkumbura said the government decided to suspend the import of sugar to prevent profiteering by importers who had stocks for more than six months in case of any increase of import tax on sugar.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said he could not agree with former Prime Minister UNP National List MP Ranil Wickremesinghe for his recent remarks criticising the security forces for what he said ‘overlooking the Cabin

The National Operations Centre for the Prevention of the COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) has decided to temporarily ban passengers from Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait.