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Sri Lanka received a multi-day fishing vessel monitoring system that contributes to ensure maritime security, under a financial grant from Australia. Australian High Commissioner David Holly said the monitoring system would help…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today instructed officials to launch a mobile vaccination service for those who are suffering from illnesses and unable to leave their homes. The COVID-19 vaccination process has been expedited at…

A total of 1,517 COVID-19 positive cases were reported in Sri Lanka today, stated the Epidemiology Unit. The total count of positive coronavirus cases found in Sri Lanka currently sits at 282,060 and 254,871 of them have made…

Passenger Transport State Minister Dilum Amunugama said that the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID- 19 Outbreak has decided to suspend all inter-provincial bus and train services until August 1. The travel ban has…

Passenger Transport State Minister Dilum Amunugama said that the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID- 19 Outbreak has decided to suspend all inter-provincial bus and train services until August 1. The travel ban has…

Sixteen Trade Union activists including Ceylon Teachers Union Secretary Joseph Stalin who were placed under quarantine at a Quarantine Centre in Mullaitivu have been released. They were to be taken to Colombo in buses yesterday…

A majority of the Sri Lankan Muslims has urged the Wakfs Board to reconsider the ban on the slaughter of Qurbani animals inside the mosques in Sri Lanka during the forthcoming Haj festival. Early this week, the Wakfs Board of Sri…

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina B Teplitz had a lengthy and fruitful discussion on the Sri Lankan Government’s commitment to the international community to resolve the Tamil issue and the…

1.5 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Sri Lanka this morning. A chartered plane arrived in Sri Lanka this morning with more than 1.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility.…