News from 2020

China has made modernising its military and expanding its weaponry a priority. (Courtesy SCMP)   China, (Courtesy SouthC…

A house where suspected militants were holding up is seen in flames during a gun battle with Indian security forces (Hindustan Tim…

The government yesterday announced the National Identity Card (NIC) numerical system, which had been introduced for the public to …

The government has arranged quarantine for returning Sri Lankans from abroad to spend their mandatory quarantine spell at a hotel …

Ten more persons tested positive for the Covid-19, increasing the total number of patients to 718 today, the Ministry of Health co…

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Inflation for the month of April was recorded at 5.2 percent, as the prices measured for the 12 months to April was slightly lower…

WION: China has claimed that the country is rolling out its digital currency in four cities starting next week.Owing to the COVID-…

Sri Lanka’s national level junior athletes have been deprived of winning at least 10 gold medals since the two international com…

In the midst of the battle against the Coronavirus, the cut-throat game had begun in some top government institutions, they say. …

Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong on Friday after democracy activists threatened to defy a ban on gatherings during the coro…

A woman from the High Commission for Pakistan delivered flowers to 10 Downing Street twice in one day wearing both glasses and saf…

Meghan Markle has launched a legal action against the British press after her father Thomas (pictured together) shared a letter sh…

Fifteen more Covid-19 infected patients have fully recovered and discharged from the hospital, increasing the total number of reco…

Post Master General Ranjith Ariyaratne today requested the people to bring a pen with them to sign relevant documents when visitin…

Former Speaker of Parliament, Karu Jayasuriya, said today that he endorsed the proposal made by the parties in the opposition to r…

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has called all 225 members of the previous Parliament for a meeting on Monday (May 4) at 10 am to…

Sri Lankan Health officials yesterday said they were closely monitoring a new illness which had affected some children in the UK a…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said the spread of COVID-19 is under control in general, and that immediate remedial steps have been …

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Hundreds of Americans lined up to access much-needed food handouts in Los Angeles and Prospect, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.  &n…

ISTANBUL AFP April29, 2020 - Voices reverberate around the room in Turkey’s busiest medical emergency hotline in Istanbul, where…

Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama, the Consultant Physician at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) said the capacity of the COVID-19 pati…

Due to the increase of the value of Japanese Yen and the US Dollar against the Sri Lankan Rupee after March 20, the vehicles with …

An Islandwide Curfew will be imposed from 8.00 pm tomorrow (30) until 5.00 am next Monday (May 04), President's Media Division sai…