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Rainfall expected to decrease in coming days - Met Department

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- The Department of Meteorology said that the prevailing rainy weather conditions across the island are expected to decrease over the next few days. Director of the Weather Foreca... Read More


Air quality remains slightly unhealthy across Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- Air quality across Sri Lanka continues to remain slightly unhealthy, according to real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) data. Several areas, including Kaduruwela, Chilaw, Akaragama,... Read More


Special operations room set up for festive season security

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- The Secretary to the Ministry of Defence has directed the activation of a special Operations Room at the Army Headquarters to ensure public safety and security during the festive... Read More


Sri Lanka weighs Indian company's request for global testing of its drug

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- Amid the ongoing probe into the withdrawn batches of the Ondansetron and request of the relevant Indian company to send samples for global testing, fresh concerns have been raise... Read More


Ondansetron tested before importation :Doctors' Trade Union Alliance

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- The controversial Ondansetron Injection, which was later identified as containing a bacterial toxin, had undergone laboratory testing before being imported to Sri Lanka and was c... Read More


New Education Reforms bound to create conflicts between parents and children: Cardinal

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- The Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has warned that the new education reforms proposed by the government could create conflict between parents and children and wea... Read More


Ditwah disaster exposes plantation communities' vulnerability, says TPA

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- The recent floods and landslides caused by the Ditwah disaster have once again underscored Sri Lanka's vulnerability to recurring climate-related emergencies, with plantation com... Read More


Police constable arrested over assault involving NPP MP

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- A police constable implicated in an assault involving Ratnapura District National People's Power (NPP) Member of Parliament Shantha Pathma Kumara Subasingha has been arrested, po... Read More


2,300 health inspectors step up festive season food checks

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- With the approach of the festive season, nearly 2,300 Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and Administrative Public Health Inspectors have launched islandwide raids and inspections t... Read More


16 dead, 18 injured in bus accident in Indonesia

Sri Lanka, Dec. 22 -- A passenger bus crash killed at least 16 people on Indonesia's main island of Java just after midnight Monday, officials said. The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll ... Read More