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The full effect of the vaccination drive – reduced transmissions, cases of severe disease and deaths - will be visible by the th…

State Minister Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle said that it is her personal opinion that the country should be closed for another wee…

Some 5,858 Covid patients were treated in 13 Ayurvedic Hospitals while 4,720 of them have fully recovered by now, State Minister o…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared Emergency regulations on the provision of essential foods with effect from midnight toda…

The Health Minister instructed the Epidemiology Unit to formulate and publish a short-term method of vaccination for the non-vacci…

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar has sent a letter of felicitation to new Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof. G.…

Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said today that there was no fuel shortage in the country. There were long queues reported near f…

President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is scheduled to address the nation, President's Spokesman Kyngsly Rathnayake said. He said the date …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has responded positively to a request made by former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to call for …

A total of 12 staff members of Parliament tested positive to Covid-19 following Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) carried out today, Serg…

With the current swell in pandemic situation in the country, it is suspicious to reopen schools by the first week of September, Ed…

Claiming that the Government is not in a position to provide immediate solutions to the demands of the teachers, Education Ministe…

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulated the Sri Lankan government for once again administering a record number of over …

The newly established President’s Media Center has been declared open in Colombo earlier this morning (July 29), President’s M…

The Education Ministry is hoping to reopen schools in the country in the first week of September, Education Minister G. L. Peiris …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa expressed the hope that more countries would be inspired by Sri Lanka’s bold approach to sustainabl…

As much as 86 percent of the government’s revenue had been spent for the payment of salaries and remunerations in 2020 triggerin…

While changing the direction of the power sector, attention was drawn to installing a Floating Solar System on the Diyawanna Lake …

The Attorney General today informed Supreme Court that the Minister of Defence had declined to allow a request made by Parliamenta…

There is no any other alternative and satisfactory way other than the school classroom environment for children to continue with t…

The Environment Ministry has decided to implement the ban on shopping bags and lunch sheets in the next few weeks, Environment Min…

All teachers in the Colombo Educational zone will be vaccinated by tomorrow, Education Minister G.L Peiris said. Addressing the m…

Following a programme launched to collect disposable carbon pens and toothbrushes, as they would take about 400 years to perish, E…

The government has decided to administer Pfizer vaccines to nearly 1,000 students going overseas for higher education, Army Comman…

The Government has planned to open up the country within two months after vaccinating its citizens at least with a single dose, To…