Another man dies at a fuel station queue

Petroleum trade unions assure no more strike

Petroleum trade unions today assured that there will be no more strikes as they had received an acceptable solution to their concerns from President Maithripala Sirisena. Meanwhile, 16?employees of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) were granted bail today after they appeared in court. The Colombo Additional Magistrate yesterday ordered the arrest of the 16 employees of CPC who had staged a protest last week. The CPC employees were ordered to be arrested after they failed to appear in cou

01 Aug, 2017

Sri Lanka ranked among top 23 countries on breastfeeding rates

No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report by the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Global Breastfeeding Collective, a new initiative to increase global breastfeeding rates. The Global Breastfeeding Scorecard, which evaluated 194 nations, found that only 40 per cent of children younger than six months are breastfed exclusively (given nothing but breast milk) and on

01 Aug, 2017

President commends Queen?s Young Leaders on award

Sri Lankan youth, Rakitha Malewana and Senel Wanniarachchi, who received an exceptional honour to win the Queen?s Young Leader Award and to collect their Awards from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, under the Queen?s Young Leaders programme, called on President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, today. The President commended the two young men for the honour and glory they brought to Sri Lanka by winning this award and extended his best wishes for their future endeavors, the Pres

01 Aug, 2017