Fire causes damage to lab at Moratuwa university

Fuel shipments scheduled to begin arriving from Friday

Fuel shipments are scheduled to begin arriving in Sri Lanka from Friday, 15th July, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said today. He said that last Friday full payments were made with the assistance of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Finance to Indian Oil for a diesel cargo to arrive between 15-17 July and a petrol cargo for 22-24 July. The Minister said that advance payments were made last week for a diesel cargo to arrive between 15-17 July and petrol between 17-19 July.?

11 Jul, 2022

Navy detains another 78 people attempting to migrate by boat

The Navy detained another 78 people attempting to migrate by boat from Batticaloa. According to the Navy media unit, the 78 people were detained at 2 separate locations. In one operation launched in Batticaloa, the Navy detained 61 individuals who were believed to be on an illegal migration attempt to a foreign country. Among them were 43 men, 07 women and 11 children. Meanwhile, in another operation launched in Batticaloa together with the Police Special Task Force (STF) in Batticaloa, 17 i

11 Jul, 2022

Army denies claims it shot directly at protesters

The Sri Lanka Army has denied claims it shot directly at protesters who attempted to enter the President’s House at Fort. issuing a media statement, the Army said that its attention has been drawn to a few video clips going viral claiming that the Army troops opened fire at protesters in order to cause intentional harm to them when they were attempting to forcibly enter the President’s House compound in Colombo, Fort on Saturday (9) afternoon. The Army categorically denied having opened fire t

10 Jul, 2022