Government should not act like Nero, who played the fiddle when Rome was burning, but should announce a complete lock-down to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Leader Sajith Premadasa told a news conference ye

As a country which did not go through a lock-down even during the 30-year war, there is no need to do so in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday adding that it was essential for the country to function.

The Police have launched an investigation into a video circulating on social media showing an assault on a nude woman.

Measures are being taken in collaboration with Sri Lankan diplomatic mission in India to bring back 1,200 Sri Lankan Buddhist pilgrims belonging to 22 tour groups, the Foreign Relations Ministry said yesterday. The Ministry said the High

Pasan Amaraweera, son of Power, Energy and Commuter Transport Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, who has arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday night from England has been sent for a 14 day quarantine spell as required to prevent an infection. Minist

The first batch of passengers who were to be quarantined, sent to the Batticaloa Campus quarantine centre yesterday. The Health Ministry has set up three quarantine centres at three locations - Batticaloa campus, the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilit

Power, Energy and Commuter Transport Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera will appraise the Cabinet today on the low level of fuel prices in the global market and seek the possibility of reducing prices in the domestic market.

The Air Passengers who would be brought to the Batticaloa Private University and Welikanda Kandakaduwa Rehabilitation Centre for two weeks quarantine for Covid19, would immediately be transferred to the Polonnaruwa General Hospital, in the event of a

Crash of the Colombo Stock Exchange is a sign that country’s economy is going into a great turmoil, former MP Harsha de Silva said yesterday. Dr. De Silva told a press conference that taking out millions of dollars from the stock market by the fore

Army which transported the first batch of passengers from South Korea to the newly established special quarantine centres in Batticaloa and Kandakadu appealed the general public to cooperate with it in the process of quarantining those arriving from

The Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar yesterday re-issued the warrant for the arrest of P.K. Weerasinghe, the Secretary of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to probe incidents of political victimisation under the ‘yahapalana

Three more activists of Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim (JMI) Organisation were arrested yesterday in Ampara on a tip-off received by State Intelligence Services (SIS), Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.

Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera said yesterday he would support, at the next presidential election, the candidate who could face Islamic extremism firmly.

Commercial Bank of (Ceylon) PLC, Sri Lanka’s largest private bank with over Rs.1.36 trillion in assets, saw its June quarter (2Q19) performance hampered by a spike in provisions made against possible bad loans and contraction in its loan book. The

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist and Olympic athlete Björn Ferry have stopped flying in an attempt to save the environment. This idea around reducing (or not flying at all) has become so well-known in their home country of Sweden tha

While stressing that opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa was no longer a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) as he had obtained Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) membership and become its leader, MP Mahinda Amaraweera said they would not ta

The final Randoli Perahera of historic Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy paraded the streets last night. Picture shows Chief tusker Wasana of Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya carrying the golden casket of the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha.

The coast and the shallow sea areas stretching from Wattala to Negombo have become one of the most polluted coastal belt in the country. This sea stretch has been polluted by garbage largely encompassing of polythene and plastics. We visited the area

Last week, Sri Lanka Tourism chief Kishu Gomes vent his frustration when he saw that committee after committee was being appointed by the President and Prime Minister as if they were having a mini contest to look into how Sri Lanka’s tourism indust

A motorcycle used by the terrorist Mohamed Mubarak Asan, who carried out the suicide attack on the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo was seized and two suspects were taken into custody during a raid on a house at Saranankara Road, the Dehiwela Police said.

A religious event to confer merit on the victims and to wish early recovery for the injured of the Easter Sunday bombings was held yesterday (28) at the Colombo Hunupitiya Gangaramaya Temple under the guidance of the Chief Incumbent of the temple Ven

The usual Sunday services in most of the Churches in the country were not held yesterday in view of the prevailing security situations. Police and the security forces had taken steps to provide additional security to the churches. However, the dev

Dambulla Police arrested 13 suspicious individuals last morning during a raid on the Dambulla Economic Centre. Police said the individu

The Secretary of the Ravana Balakaya Ven. Itthepane Saddhathissa Thera has stressed the need for a process of collecting information about Muslims who have come to the country as refugees from Myanmar and Pa

An army truck veered off the road and collided with a motorcar that had been parked by the roadside causing it extensive damage. However, no one was hurt in the accident. Matale Police are conducting investigations. (pic by Mahesh Kirthiratne)

Tourist arrivals in the south have shown a sharp decline in view of the prevailing crisis situation. President of the Hikkaduwa Hotel Owners’ Association and Vice President of the Sri Lanka Hotel Owners Association Si

A place suspected to be an underground bunker in a three storeyed house close to Azad Road, five-road junction in Nawaththurai in Jaffna had been found during a search operation yesterday (28), Jaffna Police S

A stock of 797 CDs and stickers suspected to have been used to propagate the ideology of the Muslim fundamentalists were seized during a raid on a Mosque at Moragoda, Dangedara in Galle and the president and the treasurer of the mosque were arrested.

In a video summit on Wednesday the leaders of the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Italy  said the raging Ebola pandemic was the most serious international public health emergency in recent years  and the international communi

As we mark World Food Day today, we need to reflect deeply on what has happened to our traditional food and nutrition diets during the past 40 years of the globalised capitalist market economic policy which Sri Lanka swallowed wholesale after 1977