Namal, Prasanna accused of blocking attempts to unite SLFP

Black box of PT-6 training aircraft yet to be retrieved

By Vyshnavy Velrajh The black box of the Sri Lanka Air Force PT-6 training aircraft which crashed recently is yet to be retrieved. The Sri Lanka Air Force said it has completed preliminary investigations into the crash in Kantale earlier this month. Air Force Spokesman Group Captain Dushantha Wijesinghe told?Colombo Gazette?that the report has been handed over to the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation, which is the Chinese state owned defense company authorized to se

30 Dec, 2020

Four more coronavirus related deaths reported in Sri Lanka

Four more coronavirus related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka today. The latest deaths has taken the death toll in Sri Lanka to 199, just one short of 200. Of the four deaths, one victim is a resident of Batticaloa. The 72-year-old man had died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Batticaloa. The second victim is a 70-year-old woman from Colombo 10. She was transferred from the Colombo National Hospital to the Homagama Base Hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus. Sh

30 Dec, 2020

More Ukrainian tourists infected despite negative certificate

More Ukrainian tourists currently in Sri Lanka have been found to be infected despite them giving a negative certificate to the authorities when they arrived in the country. The Health Ministry said that three more Ukrainian tourists have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising the total number of infections among the touring group to six. Health Services Deputy Director Dr. Hemantha Herath said that the foreigners had arrived in Sri Lanka with negative result certificates from PCR tests

31 Dec, 2020