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The Cabinet endorsed a proposal to import another dispatch of six million doses of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia , a spokesman said . Earlier , an order was placed for the import of seven million...

Extreme and caution level heat weather advisory was issued by the Department of Meteorology yesterday for 13 districts including Mullaithivu, Vavuniya, Puttalam, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Monaragala. According to the heat index , Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Trincomalee,...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has decided to ban the import of palm oil with immediate effect . A statement from the President’s Media Division said the government plans for the total eradication of palm oil consumption in...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he would not allow those held responsible for the serial bombings on 2019 Easter Sunday to escape the arm of the law. He also said his government had taken measures to strengthen...

India said today it had not imposed any export ban on COVID-19 vaccines and production of COVID 19 vaccines in India was being ramped up further to meet domestic requirement and global demand. A spokesman for...

Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena was elected to chair the 17th Session of the Ministerial Meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), a statement from the Ministry...

Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said the ministerial committee which studied the presidential commission’s report on   Easter Sunday   attack will hand over its recommendations to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday. The report was to be handed over...

Three more Covid-19 deaths were reported today increasing the total to 571, the Government Information Department said .

The German medicines regulator found 31 cases of a type of rare blood clot among the nearly 2.7 million people who had received the vaccine in Germany.Canada earlier suspended use of the AstraZeneca jab in...