To control the spread of COVID-19, Sri Lanka government issued circular paving the way for the public employees work from home. The circular issued by President's Secretary P.B. Jayasundara is especially relevant to the Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts of Western Province which are under travel restrictions. The circular is relevant to the other risk areas also that are identified by the

Socialist Student Union (SSU) says that students who faced GCE Advanced Level examination in 2019 face a severe injustice. The reason is that the university entrance is scheduled without taking actions to maximise the opportunities for the students for university entrance. The results, z-scores and ranks are lined up according to the new syllabus and old syllabus. The examination was held on both

Mahinda Pathinrana, promoter of Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's brother Basil Rajapaksa, said in social media that his leader has no plan to be sworn in as a parliamentarian immediately. Mahinda Pathirana, an active social media influencer and a university don, is the Chairman of Sri Lanka Press Council. He said that Basil Rajapaksa had no interest in the current political trends and

Arsalan Tariq Khawaja, the brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja was sentenced by an Australian court for plotting to brand Sri Lankan Mohamed Nizamdeen a terrorist, trying to penalize him for an offence had had not done.Arsalan Khawaja scrawled blueprints about killing prominent politicians and attacking Sydney landmarks in a notepad he stole from the budding IT business analyst Mohamed

UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on 23 March 2021. The resolution was brought by Britain on behalf of a group of countries that are identified as a core group on Sri Lanka. The resolution was backed by the US which is not a member state of the UNHRC.<!-- wp:paragraph --> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> The ...

Deputy Director-General (Public Health) of Sri Lanka Ministry of Health specialist doctor Samantha Herath said that admitting a COVID-19 affected woman into hospital taking necessary precautions regarding her mentally handicapped son is against Quarantine Act. The 25-year-old son committed suicide later. The Deputy Director-General stated that the incident would be investigated and necessary

"As of last week, the Sri Lankan importers returned 106 containers to the UK because the recyclable goods were unrecyclable," Forbes reported on 29th November 2020. The website further said, "Sri Lanka complained that of the 263 recyclable waste containers that came to them from the UK in October, about 10% of them had more inside than what they asked for ...

Sri Lanka government has decided to consider the suspects of cases of possessing less than two grams of heroin as drug addicts and to grant them bail, fine or rehabilitate them as a measure to reduce the congestion in prisons.The Minister further stated that over 7,000 drug-related convicts and suspects are in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons now. In the prisons built for about 12,000 prisoners,

Sri Lanka's Court of Appeal acquitted two former senior public officials loyal to the present government from a case on misappropriating state funds for a presidential election campaign of Mahinda Rajapaksa.Accordingly, former Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and former Director-General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC), Anusha Palpita were acquitted from the case

The Chinese embassy tweeted "laboratory environment e.q. operation desk unstable might be the cause" for the malfunctioning of the PCR machine in Colombo East Base Hospital in Mulleriyawa. Chinese embassy further clarified that the laboratory was built in June under an urgent basis with technical support from China. The machine was used for 26,000 PCR tests before it started to malfunction.  ...

Sri Lanka will export three tons of electric and electronic waste today to Japan, says Minister of Environment Mahinda Amaraweera. The waste was collected recently through a national drive early in October and the Minister says the programme will continue. However, the country lacks regular ways to collect e-waste. The Minister earlier said to Economy Next that the government expected to recycle

Sri Lanka's leading Sunday newspaper Sunday Times announced that the parliamentary reporter of the newspaper had been infected COVID-19 while working from home. The newspaper office has been disinfected and the publishing company said that the printing and distribution department connects with the editorial only via online.The Sunday Times is published by Wijaya Newspapers Ltd. which publishes

Panic buying reported in most parts of the Western Province of Sri Lanka which are not under curfew, ahead of the long weekend curfew imposed since midnight today. Friday 30th October 2020 is a full moon day and a public, bank and mercantile holiday in Sri Lanka.Large numbers of people gathered in crowded shops including liquor shops with minimal health measures to buy commodities in fear of

Sri Lankan Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila said at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Energy that the government's policy was maintaining a fixed fuel price amidst the fluctuating world oil prices. Accordingly, the present government has given up the fuel price formula introduced by the previous government to adjust petroleum prices according to the market prices. 

New Zealand Immigration Protection Tribunal has rejected a Sri Lankan prisoner's appeal against deportation. He claims there will be threats to his life if he returns to Sri Lanka. The 37-year-old man who migrated to New Zealand on a work visa in 2016 was subjected to two years and four months’ imprisonment in New Zealand for sexually assaulting a massage therapy student. He ...

Xinhua News Agency published five photos depicting scenes at Galle Face with the title 'People's daily life in Colombo, Sri Lanka.' Some of the photos are taken in the background of China-built Colombo Port City that is under construction. 

While social media in Sri Lanka raised suspicions on foul play and life threat behind the actions taken regarding SSP Shani Abesekara, latest reports say he is being transferred from Polonnaruwa to Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Colombo. The former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is despised by the present government and he was arrested four months ago. The charges

Both US State Secretary and Sri Lankan President indicated that defence was on top of the points discussed in the bilateral talks between the two states. “We had a wide-ranging discussion on our security cooperation which helps keep some of the worlds vital sea lanes open,” the US State Secretary Mike Pompeo said adding “a strong and powerful Sri Lanka is ...

Sri Lanka yesterday surpassed 10,000 in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases diagnosed in the country so far.Meanwhile, 633 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Sri Lanka on 30th October 2020. The majority of them belonged to the Peliyagoda cluster. Brandix and Peliyagoda fish market clusters increased to more than 6,500.  The total number of COVID-19 cases were at 10,424 by the end of the day. 

Sri Lanka government has designed a system of public field officials to monitor the home quarantine. So far, the home quarantine was monitored and administered by Public Health Inspectors and the police. People who undergo quarantine lack official support unless the neighbours help them. Previously, the society was afraid of the epidemic and the persons who were under home quarantine had to face