One killed, 16 injured as bus falls down precipice in Dickoya

Salaries of OMP Chairman and members to be increased

The salaries of the members and Chairman of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) are to be increased. The Committee on Public Finance approved a proposal to increase the salaries and allowances of the OMP members including the Chairman. The proposal was rejected at the last Committee meeting but has now been approved after taking all factors into consideration, the Parliament media unit said. The decision to increase the salaries was taken when the Committee on Public Finance chaired by Parlia

22 Jun, 2021

Part of Kolonnawa placed under isolation

Part of Kolonnawa has been placed under isolation from today, the National Operations Centre for the Prevention of the COVID-19 Outbreak said. Officials said that Sri Anandarama Road in the Kolonnawa Police area in the Serapura Grama Niladhari (GN) division was placed under isolation from 6am today. The National Operations Centre for the Prevention of the COVID-19 Outbreak also said that the Kotawala GN division in the Ratnapura District has also been isolated from today. Meanwhile, the isola

22 Jun, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 nanopore sequencing for the first time in Sri Lanka

The genomic sequencing facility of the Allergy Immunology and Cell Biology Unit (AICBU) at the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, has now added nanopore sequencing technology to their sequencing facility. This unit has been instrumental in carrying out SARS-CoV-2 sequencing in the country so far, since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka in March 2020. The addition of the nanopore sequencing technology will enable AICBU to ramp

21 Jun, 2021