News from 2021

All travellers arriving from overseas including Sri Lankans should be mandatorily quarantined at a Quarantine facility until comp…

Sri Lanka did not require the approval of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to commence using the Sinopharm vaccine. Domestic em…

A Sri Lankan national has been arrested by Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) officers at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the decision to start using organic fertilizer was taken towards endowing a healthy future …

Sri Lanka has vaccinated a total of 80,277 individuals with Sinopharm and Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday (May 12), sa…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) today announced the squad that has been chosen by the Cricket Selection Committee to take part in the upco…

A digital COVID vaccine identity card will be issued in near future in order to make the inoculation drive more efficient, says Mi…

Nestlé Lanka has launched an innovative solution for managing and monitoring its cold storage temperature, developed by premier b…

The pilot project of the Sri Lanka Police to launch a new traffic programme using drone cameras to reduce traffic congestion in an…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Management Committee Chairman Professor Arjuna de Silva said that the SLC elections will be held as schedu…

A total of 50,493 Sri Lankans were administered with the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine within today. According to the Epidem…

Fund’s total asset base closes in Rs.3tn after adding Rs.284bn in 2020 Declares 9% return on member balances, down from 9.5% in …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has denied claims that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had influenced the decision by the global …

All wine stores and liquor shops should be closed by 6.00 pm daily with effect from today, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva …

Police and Army officers will check the relevant documents and reason for crossing boundaries at every province limit from tomorro…

Following the debut of Prime Lands Residencies’ Initial Public Offering (IPO) yesterday (11), the company’s oversubscription f…

Provinces will be sealed off this week after strict travel restrictions are to be imposed between the provinces to prevent a furth…

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Online education, which is currently being conducted for school children is not an alternative to classroom education, Education M…

More than 40 vaccination centres have been established in the Western Province to provide the first dose of China’s Sinopharm va…

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said that the Indian team, sans the top players, will tour Sri Lanka in July for a limited…

A decision has been taken to allocate the remaining balance of the COVID–19 (ITUKAMA) Healthcare and Social Security Fund to the…

Prime Lands Residencies, the condominium property arm of Prime Group, opens its Initial Public Offering today, 11th May 2021. The …

USA-based Sri Lankan athlete Ushan Thiwanka Perera has set a new South Asian and Sri Lankan high jump record at the 2021 Lone Sta…

No decision has been taken by the Ministry as yet to close the airports, but appropriate action would be taken in line with the CO…