SLPP and Lanka Sama Samaja Party hold talks on alliance

Use of Pegasus in Sri Lanka not ruled out

By Vyshnavy Velrajh The Government says there is no evidence to prove the ?Pegasus? spyware is being used in Sri Lanka but the possibility cannot be ruled out. Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told Daily Mirror that with technology improving rapidly, the possibility of software like ?Pegasus? being used in Sri Lanka cannot be ruled out. However, he asserted that so far there is no evidence to prove that the software has been acquired by anyone based in Sri Lanka. Rights activists, politic

21 Jul, 2021

No-confidence motion against Udaya Gammanpila defeated

The no-confidence motion against Power and Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila was defeated in Parliament today with 61 MPs voting for and 152 against it. The motion was defeated during an electronic vote taken today after two days of debate. The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Tamil National Alliance and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna voted in support of the motion. However, some SJB members who had supported the Government during the vote on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution had also voted again

20 Jul, 2021

Another 90,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrives in Sri Lanka

Another consignment of 90,000 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Sri Lanka today. A stock of 70,200 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in Sri Lanka last week. A?batch of 26,000 doses of the vaccine purchased by the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) of Sri Lanka arrived on 12th July. On 5th July, the first consignment of 26,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in Sri Lanka. The Pfizer vaccine was initially administered as the 2nd jab for those who had received t

26 Jul, 2021