Use of mosquito repellents proposed as an effective measure

Two Fundamental Rights petitions filed seeking an order restraining the Treasury Secretary from taking any steps to divest the shares held by him in Sri Lanka Telecom PLC was yesterday dismissed by Supreme

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to appoint a committee to determine whether Kurundi Viharaya of Mullaitivu and Thiriyaya Viharaya of Trincomalee historically owned 2,000 and 3,000 acres respectively, sources cl

Four police officers of the Police Sports Division who went to the UK to participate in an international conference and did not report back to work have been considered as having abandoned their service, Police Spokesman

Cases close to 45,000

Emphasizes the importance of retaining children in school education for thirteen years

MP Premnath C. Dolawatte, highlighted that the Panel Code Amendment Act is under discussion in the p’ment after the SC’s green light on the matter

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) informed President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday that it would agree with him only in areas without policy contrasts, a party official said. SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam who attended the meeting alon

Threat is due to malaria vector Anopheles stephensi mosquito

Shortcomings in the Inland Revenue Act have hampered the collection of a whopping over Rs.900 billion in tax revenue to the state coffers, an MP said. Kandy district MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who chairs the Parliamentary Sectorial Oversight Com

24 year old Sri Lankan woman owned three luxury motor vehicles, a property valued at over Rs.100 million and another three storied house under construction

Says UNP leader had to accept the premiership and brought some kind of stability to the nation

Fifty-one divisional secretariats across the island will start issuing passports via online from today (15), Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said. The online system to apply for passports will be launched today at the Homaga

Today, the rulers of the country as well as many people have forgotten the war heroes

Former MP and present SJB organiser for Horana, P.D. Abeyratne was arrested for shooting into the air with his firearm to scare a group of people at Boralugoda in Horana yesterday. Police said a couple w

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has raised concerns with President Ranil Wickremesinghe over a meeting convened with SLPP district leaders on Monday saying that the party leaders were not informed of such a move and if the President intends to

Dr. Kahawita warned the public to inquire about the product by asking questions such as the active ingredients used in them

While rejecting reports on Sri Lanka’s food insecurity and child labour, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha asked the experts where they were four years ago to predict that the country’s economy would come to zero. While addressing a blo

There has been a drastic increase in drug offenders at present and that nine new centres have been initiated to rehabilitate the drug offenders¸ a Parliamentary Committee revealed. The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) that met in Parliament Com

Sri Lanka Customs along with the Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) will destroy the largest haul of illicit cigarettes detected in the country’s history, which is over 200 million sticks and came in 21 containers in 2021 with an estimated value of Rs.9.

The Supreme Court recently gave a historical judgement with regard to the ownership of the copyright of a work of renowned Chef Publis Silva, which is relevant to authors, publishers and all other connected parties in the respective field. Defendan

President’s Media Division says food insecurity still persists in specific regions, according to a new study

The stone was 13.372 cm long and weighs 801 g

The government is working to take an urgent decision to import vehicles as the government revenue expected from the Customs Department has depleted by a huge margin where only Rs. 330 billion rupees have bee

President Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed former Minister Navin Dissanayake as the Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province yesterday. Mr. Dissanayake

Those who were behind the attacks are holding high posts today

Auditor General informed COPE that a consultant who was recruited to ANCL in 2020 had been paid Rs. 1.8 million and another consultant recruited to the Media Ministry had been paid a consultancy fee of Rs. 900,000 without obtaining any consultatio

While claiming that Sri Lankan authorities were in constant touch with the relevant UK officials about some 60 Sri Lankan people who are being held in Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka yesterday said that those Sri Lank

Shramantha Jude’s mother, S.M. Jayamaha, Ven. Balangoda Buddhaghosa Thera, Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera, Ven. Baddegama Samitha Thera, Sarath Kongahage, Mahesh Madawala, Nalini Mahatunga and a Catholic priest had made the request

About 30 percent of the total culminated Dengue cases reported in 2023 are in the age category between one and 18, according to h