Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Aanya Wipulasena
Day 13: Water and food have almost run out. Each man is given a few sips of water in a small cup. Their attempts to catch fish for food have been unsuccessful so a decision has been made to ration both.
Wherever Sampath looked, all he saw was the sea and skies in different shades of blue blending into an abyss. He has started to cough up blood now. Gastritis at its worst...
Travellers to Sri Lanka
The Technical Committee of the Health Ministry will meet to discuss relaxing quarantine regulations for travellers to Sri Lanka, Primary Health Care, Epidemics and Covid-19 Disease Control State Minister Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle told the Sunday Observer.
She said the committee will have to weigh-in scientific information regarding vaccines before taking a decision.
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Sri Lanka’s flag on China doormats
The Sri Lankan Embassy in Beijing is closely monitoring the developments regarding the use of the national flag on doormats by a Chinese-based company and advertised online. The Sri Lankan mission in a media release stated that the matter has already been taken up with the relevant authorities in Beijing to stop the production and sale of any product that has the image of...
Moves under way to close over 1,000 Madrasas
A cabinet paper banning the burqa was signed by Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral (Rtd) Sarath Weerasekara on Friday (12).
He said this step was taken because the burqa was posing a direct threat to national security. He said while he was growing up he had Muslim friends and ‘none of them wore a burqa’.
“It is a symbol of religious extremism that came into the...
Sri Lanka urged the UN Human Rights Council Core Group on Sri Lanka to remove the clause pertaining to the ‘forced cremations’ from the Resolution that was tabled recently, as officials here on Friday (5) carried out the first burials of bodies of those who died of Covid-19.
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva, C.A....
By Aanya Wipulasena
Sri Lanka is grappling with its worst economic crisis in over seven decades since the country gained independence from the...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan cemented a new 50 USD million defence credit line facility to Sri Lanka, during his maiden...
The Government reversed its decision to cremate bodies of all Covid-19 victims to let communities to allow burials under special...
Environment destruction
The public could now reach out to the hotline 1997 to lodge complaints regarding environment destruction that includes the...
For years, one issue has been weighing 65-year-old P. M. Jayaratne down. Jayarathne, a farmer from Hingurakgoda, Polonnaruwa, has...
As the Government grapples with the constraints posed by Covid-19, the health authorities have now identified another hurdle: a...
The former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia, UdayangaWeeratunga, the brainchild behind the tourism pilot project launched at the...
The Government is studying several vaccines and would opt for one that can be stored and transferred within the country using its...
The ongoing coronavirus crisis is posing many challenges to economically hit retailers who rely on last minute festive season...
Sri Lanka will open its borders to foreign tourists in keeping with health guidelines in January, Tourism Minister Prasanna...
Thousands of others from the Eastern and Northern provinces braced on Wednesday for Burevi that was expected to be one of the...
Thirty-eight Sri Lankans were stranded in the war-erupted Tigray region of Ethiopia when the Ethiopian government launched...
Foreign Ministry Director General, East Asia, KandeepanBalasubramaniam, said about 600 migrant workers were repatriated since the...
Officers of the Central Bank were asked to quarantine following the detection of one Covid-19 case within its premises, a...
The pressure is on the health authorities to take adequate measures to curb the Covid - 19 virus from spreading further, with...
Sri Lanka should have a national plan to deploy a Covid-19 vaccine, while the country awaits the approval and subsequent delivery...
Officers attached to the office of US State Secretary Michael R. Pompeo arrived in Colombo on Friday (23) ahead of his...
Samagi Jana Balawegaya parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva said that he was “shocked” and “disappointed” by the sudden U-turn...
Sri Lanka will join the global community to celebrate the World Tourism Day amid the Covid-19 pandemic under the banner ‘Tourism...
The Government will fix scanners at airports soon to fast track cargo services to reduce the time spent on getting approval from...
The United National Party (UNP) will decide on who will assume the position of its leader this month, UNP member and former State...
Battle against narcotic drugs
When he was in his early 20s, Kumara was a drug addict. He saw his life crumble as a result of his addiction with little power to...
Sri Lanka Tourism will seek advice from the Ministry of Health (MoH) to reopen the country for inbound tourists from destinations...
There is a silver lining for tourism, the hardest-hit industry since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus dubbed later as Covid-...
The new Government has a fresh look: new faces, educated young MPs with experienced members of parliament and this shows voters...
Despite appeals to amend election laws
At least 60 bhikkhus are contesting at the forthcoming parliamentary elections with the highest number (18) from the Jana Setha...
The country not only needs leaders with a vision but also those who can deliver, former MP and Samagi Jana Balavegaya candidate...
This is a good time to see the political commitment to address violence against women because many women will be interested to...
New coalition Tamil Makkal National Front (TMNF), also known as Tamil People’s National Front hopes to ‘deliver goods’ that the...
MCC review
The Committee only expressed its surprise that a second preparatory agreement of USD 2.6 million was signed to top-up a previous...
The Education Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), Pubudu Jagoda, said that they are willing to work with the JVP as...
For the first time in Sri Lanka, tourism bodies will engage youth (under the age of 30) to find new ways to revive the industry...
As all those involved in the tourism sector grapple with sudden pay-cuts and in some cases loss of an income altogether amidst...
Raging swarms of desert locust that is devastating crops in India may reach Sri Lanka due to the current wind patterns, the...
The Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) has called for court’s permission to carry out a postmortem on the black panther...
Ex-minister Eran Wickramaratne says his party will give its fullest support to hold the anticipated Parliamentary Elections if...
Sri Lanka is exploring avenues to create a travel bubble, or a corridor between Sri Lanka and other countries for tourists to...
Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) will review increasing the daily fee of chauffer guides and site guides to USD 35...
The Catholic Church will plan for ‘something more’ than the commemoration event that was held last week to mark the first-year...
Parents of children in international schools are pleading for school-fee relief as their jobs are at risk due to the Covid-19...
First responders of the battle against Covid-19
“I did not just get treated here, I got love too,” the 43-year-old Chinese patient who will be remembered as the country’s first...
State universities begin online classes:
State-run universities are looking at accelerating online classes in the hope that the ongoing pandemic will not disrupt the...
Estonian university restrictions on COVID-19:
A student dormitory of Estonia’s top higher education institution, Tartu University, where at least four Sri Lankan students are...
The week-long events scheduled for the week preceding April 21 to remember those who lost their lives at the Easter Sunday...
At least 2,000 people are continuing to leave to their country of origin in ferry-flights, Retired Major General G. A....
The Government is exploring the possibility of merging three key tourism institutions to boost the industry by making it more...
Health authorities are awaiting the medical test results of three patients for suspected COVID-19 infections. The three patients...
“I think this is a brilliant idea. Now we do not have to stay in traffic for hours because some people are protesting,” waiting...
Airbus bribery scandal
Government is seeking the Attorney General’s advice to win compensation from Airbus over the bribery scandal that resulted in the...
Thermal scanners installed, SriLankan staffers briefed, and quarantine unit geared up as the deadly Coronavirus claims at least...