Three killed following accident involving two motorcycles

Power cuts extended to 13 hours

The power cuts have been extended to 13 hours tomorrow with some areas set to experience the outage even between midnight and 5am. The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) had requested approval for a 13-hour power cut. The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) approved the request by the CEB.

30 Mar, 2022

NIA files chargesheet against six accused in LTTE funding case

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against six accused in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terror funding case. In an attempt to regroup and revive the operations in India and Sri Lanka, the LTTE was accused of committing forgery, cheating and using forged documents to divert funds lodged in dormant bank accounts to fund terror activities. The investigation revealed that the accused -?Letchumanan Mary Franciska, T. Kenniston Fernando and K. Baskaran

30 Mar, 2022

One out of three pregnancies in Sri Lanka estimated to be unintended

One out of three pregnancies in Sri Lanka are estimated to be unintended pregnancies. Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year?throughout the world, are unintended. In Sri Lanka, about 360,000 women become pregnant every year. One out of three of these pregnancies are estimated to be unintended pregnancies. The unmet need for family planning is also at 7.3% (Demographic and Health Survey, 2016), a figure that may have been further augmented due to the pandemic. Public h

30 Mar, 2022