There has been no decision taken as yet to extend the ongoing island-wide travel restrictions beyond June 7 but the situation is being reviewed daily, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva told Dailymirror.

Six more persons, who attended the birthday party organized at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo on Sunday violating quarantine regulations have been arrested by the police.

The prison officers at the female ward of the Welikada Prison have thwarted an attempt to smuggle mobile phones, phone batteries and SIM cards through the drain, an official said.

Through the Colombo Port City Development Project (CPCP), the government is hoping to bring at least three or four fortune 500 companies into the country, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP S. B. Dissanayake said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed his principal advisor Lalith Weeratunga to expedite the search for the AstraZeneca vaccines as 600,000 people await their second jabs and time now seems to be clearly running out.

The Meteorology Department today denied issuing any statement regarding an acid rain.

The bail application filed on behalf of Moratuwa Mayor Samanlal Fernando,seeking bail has been rejected by the Moratuwa Additional Magistrate today.

All parliamentarians should act with responsibility and motivate and encourage all health personnel who are engaged in the battle against the COVID outbreak, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said.

All the licensed wine stores Island-wide would be sealed until the travel restrictions are lifted on June 7, the Excise Department said.

The Dengue virus and the virus that causes COVID-19 can generate similar symptoms, Dr. Indika Weerasinghe of the Health Ministry’s National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) said.

The Government today insisted that Sri Lanka is not a dumping ground for Chinese garbage.

The Government today insisted that there was no shortage of salt as a result of the MV X-Press Pearl incident.

The Government has approved to provide a fixed allowance, ’Guru Abhimani’ after a certain training given for preschool teachers.

Government should seek the assistance of virologists and other experts who are in its Parliament group at this moment to overcome the COVID 19 pandemic, UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene said.

A man was arrested with 129 kilograms of Kerala cannabis during a search operation carried out by the STF at a house at Kolonnawa in Colombo.

A policy decision has been taken to shift the Police Headquarters to Pepiliyana.

After the re-opening of airports in the country for locals and foreigners, the first flight from Doha touched down at the Katunayake International Airport with 53 passengers, the airport duty manager said

A small crab is crawling on the sun-bathed sandy beach looks for a dwelling place among the strewn debris washed ashore from the burnt MV X-Press Pearl freighter. These small creatures make a fragile pile around them with sea sand and dwell inside. A

Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have been assigned letters from the Greek alphabet in a bid to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma.

In what appeared to be another radical step in global vaccine development, Russia informed Sri Lanka that its Sputnik V could even be used as a single shot vaccine following new clinical data about the development of 70-80 percent efficacy level afte

Forty three more COVID-19 related deaths were reported taking the death toll to 1,484, the Government Information Department said.

The incident in which a consent form was issued to people at a vaccination centre in Kundasale, Kandy with an undertaking therein says ‘I wish to take only the first dose of Sputnik-V vaccine’, has taken place without the knowledge of the Health

Vendors and the staff at the Economic Centre in Welisara were administered with the second dose of the Covishield vaccine today. Pix by Nimalsiri Edirisinghe

A total of 2,882 more COVID-19 patients were detected within today increasing the total cases reported in Sri Lanka to 186,364, the Government Information Department said.

Navy personnel are engaged in cleaning the Galle Face Green beach area which was polluted by the debris from burnt Singaporean freighter MV X-Press Pearl. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana

The cancellation of leave of police officers will be extended till June 15 as the travel restrictions have been extended till June 7, Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed members to the Port City Commission.

The Working Committee (WC) of the United National Party (UNP) has picked party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the UNP nominee for Parliament.

Former Chairman of National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol, Dr Palitha Abeykoon, who is also International Pubilc Health Expert, and WHO Director-General Special Envoy for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response for SEAR, has won the South-East Asia Reg

Vendors gather at Pettah Market soon after the arrival of vegetables even during the restriction period. The Daily Mirror learns the vegetables were sold at higher prices than usual. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana