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Police seek to drop 2 charges against public security secretary
Police have sought the dropping of reckless and drunk driving charges against the present public security ministry secretary Ravi Seneviratne, when a hearing...
Ravi urges debt relief for SMEs
Opposition MP Ravi Karunanayake has called for urgent relief measures to support Sri Lanka’s small and medium-scale entrepreneurs (SMEs), warning that nearly 250,000...
Health Minister admits Govt failing to meet medicine demand
Cabinet Spokesperson and Minister of Health and Mass Media Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa acknowledged that the government is currently unable to meet the full...
Govt to import 40,000 MT of Keeri Samba to tackle rice shortage
The government has decided to import 40,000 metric tons of Keeri Samba and substitute rice varieties in a bid to address the current...
Visiting UN rights chief told of Sri Lanka’s ‘arsenal’ against Tamil nationalism
A Northern Tamil political leader has raised concerns with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding the ‘arsenal’ used by the...
Noncommunicable diseases on the rise among children
The prevalence of noncommunicable diseases has increased among children, warned community health specialist Monika Wijerathne. The director of the Health Ministry’s nutrition unit...
International donors raise alarm over changes to Electricity Act
Three leading global donors have expressed concerns over some of the amendments to the Electricity Act urging the Government reconsider the move to...
LankaPay processes Rs. 34 Trillion in transactions for 2024
Sri Lanka’s national payment network ‘LankaPay’ processed a total of Rs. 34 trillion in transactions in 2024, its CEO Channa De Silva said,...
