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Development Lotteries Board (DLB) Chairman Anusha Palpita has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Policies and Plan Implementation.

Nepal’s main opposition leader Sher Bahadur Deuba was sworn in as prime minister on Tuesday a day after the country’s highest court ousted his predecessor following months of political turmoil. Deuba, 74, takes prime minister’s…

1.5 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine will be delivered to Sri Lanka from the United States next Friday (July 16), said the Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi. The vaccine stock is delivered under the World Health…

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has received the COVID-19 vaccine at the Shanthi Foundation Temple on Bauddhaloka Mawatha this morning.

Institute of National Security Studies, the premier think tank on National Security established under the Ministry of Defence Sri Lanka organized a Closed Door Public Lecture titled “Regulating Educational and Religious Space” which…

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Environment to prepare a strategic plan for promoting the use of electric vehicles in Sri Lanka. According to the Department of Motor Traffic, the…

4,853 persons were undergoing quarantine at 75 hotels and tri service-managed Quarantine Centres as at this morning, stated the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19.

The Ministry of Health has launched an expeditious project to provide essential medical equipment to island wide hospitals under the Covid Control and Suppression Program. Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Minister of Health today (13)…

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

A total of 1,413 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 277,519 and 247,569 of them have made…