Bharatiya Janata Party State president Tamilisai Soundararajan has challenged the election of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Kanimozhi from the Thoothukudi constituency in the recently held elections to the Lok Sabha.
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EU offers EUR 22 million grant to Sri Lanka praising its control of COVID-19 as impressive
European Union has announced a EUR 22 million grant to Sri Lanka to extend support for the control of the spread of COVID-19. -
Boris Johnson moved out of ICU
British Premier Boris Johnson has been moved out of the Intensive Care Unit but continues to remain in St Thomas' Hospital in London receiving treatment for coronavirus. He is presently in the early phase of recovery. -
Health Minister graces inauguration of improvised Iranwila VoA building as isolation centre
Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi graced the ceremony held on Monday to inaugurate the improvised unattended former Voice of America building complex at Iranawila, Chilaw to be an isolation hospital. -
Fixing polls is EC’s responsibility and President has no wish to interfere with its duties … President’s Secretary Jayasundara
President’s Secretary P.B.Jayasundara has stated that it is President’s contention that it is not possible at this point of time to state that the election cannot be held on or before 28.05.2020. The date for fixing the poll is the responsibility of the Election Commission and he has no wish to interfere with duties and obligations of the Election Commission. -
OMP urges Govt to include families of missing persons in COVI-19 relief measures
Saliya Pieris P.C. Chairperson of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) has urged the government to ensure the families of the missing and disappeared are beneficiaries of Coronavirus (COVID19) relief measures undertaken by the government. -
Medi Mate handed to Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital
Medi Mate, a remote-controlled smart appliance to treat and test COVID-19 patients was handed to the Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital by the Sri Lankan Navy at a ceremony recently. -
Cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya in Mattakkuliya donates dry foods to the needy
Reputed cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya distributed dry food to hundred needy families in Mattakkuliya recently. -
Curfew to be re-imposed at 4pm and continued till 14th April
The curfew lifted at 6 am today will be re-imposed at 4.00 pm in all districts except in the districts of Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Puttalam, Kandy and Jaffna identified as High Risk Zones. This will be effective until 6.00 am on Tuesday the 14th of April. -
Sri Lanka registers 7th death due to COVID-19
The number of deaths due to coronavirus in Sri Lanka has risen to 7 with the death of a 44 year old male at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Angoda on April 8. -
India gifts consignment of essential life saving medicines to Sri Lanka
India has gifted a 10- tone consignment of essential life saving medicines to Government of Sri Lanka in view of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in response to a request by the Government of Sri Lanka. -
Continue the current restrictions, review after the New Year …. Six Chair Professors tell the Govt
Six Chair Professors of Medicine (and Specialist Physicians) in Sri Lanka have advised the government to continue the current level of restriction and review it after the [Sinahala and Tamil] New Year. -
Let us defeat the enemy COVID-19 by working together irrespective of differences … Mahinda Rajapaksa’s clarion call
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has made a clarion call to the people of this island to rally together to defeat the enemy COVID-19 without any differences of race, religion or party.
MDMK General Secretary Vaiko filed nomination papers with Assembly Secretary-cum-Returning Officer for the Rajya Sabha elections at the Secretariat recently. He was given nomination by DMK.
A special Court Judge J.Santhi has convicted MDMK General Secretary Vaiko of sedition for a speech he made in 2009 against Central Government and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 10,000.
Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case has been granted one month parole to attend her daughter’s wedding by Madras High Court. She made her plea in person before Court seeking the relief.
DMK has appointed Tamil film actor-producer Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of DMK president M.K. Stalin, as the Secretary of the party’s Youth Front.
Sritharan graces Special Yagam to save people from COVID-19
Tamil National Alliance former Parliamentarian Sivagnanam Sritharan graced the Special Yagam held at Iranamadu Kanagambikai Amman Koil in Kilinocchi recently to seek divine blessings to...
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Trincomalee witnesses hustle-bustle of people with swift purchasing on lifting...
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Face Masks handed to Jaffna Teaching Hospital
A number of face masks was handed to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital under the initiatives of Enfield Nagapoosani Amman temple in London.
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Sara in Kerudavil, distributes dry foods to the needy
Managing Director of Uthayan Newspaper based in Jaffna, former Parliamentarian Easwarapatham Saravanapvan visited the village of Seekapulam in Kerudavil, met with families of daily bread...
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