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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.…

The Health Ministry has issued New revised COVID-19 guidelines due to the prevailing COVID-19 situations. As per the notice, All government and private institutions have been urged to be responsible to ensure that their…

4,603 persons were undergoing quarantine at 72 hotels and tri service-managed Quarantine Centres as at this morning, stated the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19.

The National Operation Centre for the Prevention of COVID-19 had identified 1484 positive cases by this morning. The majority positive cases were detected from the Colombo district (318 cases)

About 103kg and 750g of Kerala cannabis were seized by the Sri Lanka Navy, during a special operation conducted in northern waters off Kankesanthurai, Jaffna. The operation also led to the apprehension of 03 suspects and a dinghy…

Sri Lanka has received more than ten million doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far, said the State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof Channa Jayasumana. "With 1.5 million doses of Moderna vaccines…