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The enforcement agencies have started keeping a watch on betel nut consignments coming to the city from Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) after reaching there from Sri Lanka taking the sea route. Much of these betel…

Sri Lanka has a strong family health service which has enabled the significant improvement of the country's health care system, said Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi. She made this observation while participating as the…

Sri Lanka will receive 1.6 million doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. "China decides to donate another 1.6 million doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to Sri Lanka" , the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka stated in its…

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

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 Wakfs Board of Sri Lanka has decided not to permit the slaughter of Qurbani animals within any Mosque premises. Accordingly, all trustees are directed not to permit any slaughter of qurbani animals within any mosque premises…

The general public above 30 years of age in the Western Province (WP) are able to get the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine at the Colombo Vihara Maha Devi Park open theatre in Colombo from tomorrow (July 15), the latest Community…

Ambassadors of the United States, Germany, China, Russia, the European Union and the High Commissioners of the United Kingdom and India called on Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa at the Finance Ministry yesterday (14). This is…