Akila offers to resign as UNP General Secretary

Modi told to urge Sri Lanka to not scrap Provincial Councils

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been urged to prevail upon Sri Lanka to give up its ‘proposal’ to abolish the provincial councils as it went against the island nation’s 13th Amendment to Constitution. The amendment was an outcome of the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987, India’s DMK Parliamentary Party leader T R Baalu said and added that the proposal, if carried forward, would put a question mark on the accord with India, the Press Trust of India reported. Baalu, who is also the party treasur

31 Dec, 2020

Expert committee recommends both burial and cremation

The expert committee appointed by the Health Ministry to study the issue on the disposal of the bodies of coronavirus victims, has recommended both burial and cremation. The committee had been appointed to study the issue after Muslims objected to the forced cremation of Muslim coronavirus victims. In its report leaked on social media, the committee notes that it firmly stands by on the previous recommendation and guidelines on exclusive cremations of dead bodies as the most appropriate method

02 Jan, 2021

Sri Lanka intensifies lab testing to detect new variant

By Easwaran Rutnam? Sri Lanka has intensified lab testing of the coronavirus in order to detect the new variant or any other variant that may enter the country. Professor Neelika Malavige from the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura said that lab testing had been done since March when the coronavirus pandemic began to spread in Sri Lanka, Daily Mirror reported. She said that testing was done once a month to detect if the virus was m

02 Jan, 2021