Sri Lanka detects first case of Omicron variant
Sri Lankan health officials have confirmed the first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the country today (03).
Sri Lankan health officials have confirmed the first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the country today (03).
A journalist who had gone to file a complaint regarding the misconduct of certain police officers has been threatened by the officer in charge (OIC) of the Point Pedro police station.
The Governor of the Northern Province is being accused of aiding and abetting a land grab at a time where continuous demands from the North and East to hand over land powers to the Provincial Councils are gaining international attention.
Dollar-starved Sri Lanka is poised to shed an entrenched inhibition about allowing the commercial cultivation of cannabis. As of now, cultivation of the weed is banned except for use in indigenous medicine, and that too, under strict State control.
Nearly 200,000 additional Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses arrived in Sri Lanka today as a donation from the American people.
The United National Party has raised questions over the claims made by Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal regarding conditions being laid down by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Estate workers of a tea estate belonging to a leading tea export company in Sri Lanka have launched a protest over low wages paid by the company.
The Sri Lanka Navy is being accused of attempting to forcefully obtain the land of an elderly Tamil woman in the North.
The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), MP Sagara Kariyawasam has demanded the allied Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to leave the government if the party disagrees with the policies of the government.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are set to attend the 5th Indian Ocean Conference scheduled to be held in Abu Dhabi from the 3rd to the 5th of December 2021.