Central and North-Western Provinces have recorded the second and third highest number of dengue cases

In the backdrop of numerous medical specialists leaving the country, the Health Ministry and Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) have failed to reach consensus on actions to be taken against the doctors who have migrated illegally.

State owned Channel Eye had been secretly sold to VIS Broadcasting (Pvt.) Ltd. for Rs 250 million per month effective for six months from June 30, National People’s Power (NPP) alleged yesterday.

Several operating theatres of the Colombo National Hospital experienced a minor power failure yesterday (14) affecting the hospital services including surgeries.

A seven-year-old school girl, who was trapped between two walls of a Kalutara school, was rescued safely by the Kalutara Municipal Council’s fire department officers yesterday.

The volume of corruption at five state institutions - Sri Lanka Customs, Excise Department, Motor Traffic Department, Inland Revenue Department and Sri Lanka Railways - is so enormous that the state revenue can be increased by 50 percent by digitizin

At the time of delivery the baby had fallen onto the floor

Trade will be conducted based on this new system in two years’ time

Some 171,781 people belonging to 51,641 families in thirteen districts have been affected due to the dry weather conditions prevailing in the country, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

Former MP Ranjan Ramanayake has successfully passed the second year examination in Bachelor of Arts in Youth Empowerment and Development from the Open University of Colombo.

United Republican Front (URF) leader Patali Champika Ranawaka asked yesterday why the Rs.16 billion undue profit earned by seven importers in the 2021 sugar tax scam is not recovered by the government despite recommendatio

A total of 73 drugs have so far failed quality tests in 2023, according to the Medical Supplies Division of the Health Ministry. Of the drugs that failed quality tests, 45 were manufactured in India, while 17 drugs were locally pro

Says foundation should be laid for the next generation to choose their future direction after A/L

Sri Lanka border controlling authorities have put their sleuths on high alert at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) as a growing trend of human smuggling cases was seen in the last few weeks and having detected 102 such attempts this year f

A Memorandum of Understanding to provide monetary aid to accelerate the de-mining process in the North was signed between Japan and Sri Lanka on Saturday (12). The Japanese Ambassador in Sri Lanka Mizukoshi Hideaki signed the MOU during his visit t

The licence fee for public exhibitions such as films (local and foreign), stage dramas, musical and performing shows has been amended through a Gazette Extraordinary issued by the Ministry of Mass Media.

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has underlined the importance of data-based research to guide government policymaking, noting that if such practice had been followed, particularly in regard to the economy, Sri Lanka would have averted the c

The current population stands at a staggering 29,000

Banks and depositors will be saved anyhow: State Minister of Finance

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena rebuffed yesterday the opposition’s request to retract his recent ruling on the domestic debt restructuring programme (DDR). Despite strong objections from the opposition, the Speaker defended his decision, assertin

Former OIC Chettikulam Police CI Sugath Roshan Sanjeewa who pleaded guilty of making a false report on the death of a police sergeant who died in an accident and concealing the evidence of the case was sentenced to six-month imprisonment suspended fo

Emergency purchases is the biggest monster which eats up Sri Lanka’s health sector, head of a leading medical institution said yesterday. President of the College o

33,687 people are currently working in the Civil Security Force

Programme at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, from 12 noon to 7 pm on August 19

Women’s rights groups from Sri Lanka and other Asian countries discussed the ways the ongoing crisis has impacted their lives

This contempt matter had been filed against the Chief Justice for the alleged contemptuous act committed by him on September 20, 2017

Currently, a mere 900,000 acre-feet of water capacity remain available

A preliminary discussion was held with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees in Colombo on August 10 regarding a Cycle Expedition on Buddhist Circuit, and it will be held from Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha in Nepal, through the sa

Says no reconstruction of an existing temple had taken place

The stock of Covid-19 vaccines available in Sri Lanka will expire on August 24, Daily Mirror learns. COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Anwar Hamdani said there is a stock of Sinopharm vaccines at the moment. “As such, still there is som