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After weeks of internal strife at the Food and Drug Administration, the agency on Wednesday authorized people over 65 who had received Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine to get a booster shot at least six months after their second…

President Biden, declaring the coronavirus an “all-hands-on-deck crisis,” set out ambitious goals on Wednesday for ending the pandemic and urged world leaders, drug companies, philanthropies and nonprofit groups to embrace a target of…

This government gave high assurances to the people that those responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks will be punished but those hopes have been dashed within two years and five months after the government came to power, Janatha…

489 persons were arrested yesterday for not wearing face masks and failing to maintain social distancing, stated the Police Media Division. So far 77,125 suspects have been arrested for not wearing face masks and maintaining…

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), call on the government not to divest valuable lands in the Colombo Port to outside companies. SJB National Organizer Tissa Attanayaka condemned  the Government’s proposed plan to give the ownership of…

The New Zealand High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, His Excellency Michael Edward Appleton paid a courtesy call on Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne at the Navy Headquarters today. The cordial discussion…

Two fundamental rights (FR) petitions were filed in the Supreme Court yesterday (23) seeking an order nullifying the appointment of former Finance State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka…

The Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena endorsed his certificate on the Consumer Affairs Authority (Amendment) Bill, No 09 of 2003 yesterday (22). The Bill was passed without amendments after being debated in Parliament yesterday…

Geology experts said that large scale earthquakes are not possible in the country. They insisted that Sri Lanka is located close to the centre of the Indo-Australian plateau, so there is little chance of a large-scale earthquake. It…

92 deaths reported due to COVID-19 within 24-hours, stated the Department of Government Information