News from 2021

Opening hours of bars in hotels and liquor shops should be extended in order to create a night economy in Sri Lanka, MP Diana Gama…

Emirates has announced it will increase its services to Colombo from six to seven flights a week, with the seventh weekly flight c…

Installation of CCTV cameras in the Welikada, Magazine, Remand prisons, Welikada Female Ward and Prison Hospital commenced yesterd…

The government is considering regulating Sri Lanka beauty pageants following the recent incident at the Mrs. Sri Lanka for Mrs. Wo…

Sri Lankan Airlines is likely to plan a VVIP flight to Nairobi on April 29 which will see several VIP’S being taken for one week…

Estimates Port City would generate over 300,000 new jobs and US$ 10bn in fresh direct investments To have positive impact on SL’…

Fisheries Minister, Douglas Devananda who was in the midst of controversy last week for allegedly claiming that Indian fishermen w…

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Mrs. World Inc. Organization, today said it had accepted the resignation of Caroline Jurie stating that the first runner up at las…

Health authorities issued a coronavirus red alert last night as an increase in patients being admitted to hospitals was observed. …

All May Day rallies have been cancelled as a precautionary measure to curb the spread of COVID-19, Army Commander Shavendra Silva …

The Angel Fund has announced a Rs. 10 million investment in Niftron, a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to make b…

Affirming its leadership in the country’s fast-growing insurance industry, Sri Lanka’s premier life insurer Union Assurance re…

India supports the call of international community for the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its commitments on devolution of polit…

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to grant a presidential pardon to incarcerated forme…

WindForce Limited, the latest company to list on the Colombo Stock Exchange, acquired Solar Universe (Pvt) Ltd, which has won a te…

Sri Lanka’s Investment Showcase to the World on 7-9th June Themed “Sri Lanka – Asia’s Next Growth Haven”, the Sri Lanka …

Former Sri Lanka player Dilhara Lokuhettige has been banned from all cricket for eight years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal…

Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana revealed that 905 motorists were taken into custody during an 18-hour operation for driving u…

His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, today requested the public to observe two minutes’ silence at 8.45…

Seventy-eight tourists who arrived in Sri Lanka had been found to be infected with the coronavirus since December, the Tourism Min…

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Suspicion surrounds over an incident where two persons who had died over alcohol poisoning in Galenbindunuwewa and another hospita…

Fifty-two people have lost their lives and 669 were injured in road accidents as of yesterday since April 13, Police said. Police…

Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says that the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks were politically driven. He claims …