Open warrants issued on five major drug dealers

Sri Lanka to welcome tourists by assuring a ?safe and secure? traveller experience

Following Sri Lanka?s successful containment of COVID-19, Sri Lanka Tourism has been collaboratively exploring avenues of re-positioning Sri Lanka as the world?s number one destination with an excellent health care system, by introducing extensive health and safety protocols to ensure a ?Safe and Secure? traveller experience, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority said today. Through an extensive consultative process with all stakeholders within the tourism sector, a comprehensive operatio

24 Jun, 2020

Sri Lanka completes 100,000 PCR tests

Sri Lanka has completed 100,000 Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests so far, the Ministry of Health said today. Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said that Sri Lanka, which had completed 98,634 tests by yesterday (Tuesday), had crossed the 100,000 mark today. Meanwhile, a new lab was declared open today where 500 tests can be carried out daily. The lab has been established in Mulleriyawa. (Colombo Gazette)

24 Jun, 2020

Sri Lankan authorities urged to stop harassing journalist

The Sri Lankan authorities should stop targeting, intimidating, and harassing journalist and woman human rights defender, Dharisha Bastians, and her family, rights groups said today. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Front Line Defenders condemned the assault on human rights and press freedom in Sri Lanka and called on the Sri Lanka Police to immediately stop the harassment and ensure Bastians? safety. In a joint sta

24 Jun, 2020