Lanka confident no threat from IS militants despite Bangladesh attack

Sri Lanka’s biggest cricket stadium to be constructed in Homagama

Sri Lanka’s biggest cricket stadium is to be constructed in Homagama, the Government announced today. Cabinet co-spokesman and Minister Bandula Gunawardena, Secretary to the Ministry of Urban Development Priyath Bandu Wickrama and Sri Lanka Cricket Board officials inspected the land today (Sunday) where the stadium will be constructed. Gunawardena said that construction of the stadium, which had been suspended, will now resume. He said that 126 acres of land has been allocated for the project

17 May, 2020

Sri Lankans urged to rethink plans to be repatriated

Sri Lankans wanting to return home have been urged to rethink plans to be repatriated. Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has called on migrant workers as well as students and parents, to carefully calibrate the effect repatriation at this time could have on their jobs and education, before making decisions to seek to return to Sri Lanka, availing of the limited flights being operated by the Government for those facing compelling circumstances. He noted that over 38,000 Sri Lankans are seek

17 May, 2020

Spraying disinfectants on streets in Sri Lanka could be ‘harmful’

By Easwaran Rutnam A report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has contradicted a practice followed by Sri Lankan authorities when using disinfectants in the fight against the coronavirus. In its Situation Report number 115 the WHO notes that the virus that causes COVID-19 is transmitted mainly through close contact and respiratory droplets, with possible airborne transmission in settings where procedures that can generate aerosol are performed. In the report WHO says spraying or fumigati

17 May, 2020