Police have requested public assistance to locate and arrest a suspect linked to the double murder of a lawyer and his wife who were shot dead in a parking area of a supermarket in Akuregoda. MORE..
19 May 2026 (5:15 PM)
Sri Lanka has been awarded special recognition by the World Health Organization (WHO) for reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis to a level no longer considered a public health problem. MORE..
19 May 2026 (5:58 PM)
Officials of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) informed the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Women and Child Affairs that a decision has been taken to provide a monthly allowance of Rs. 10,000 for children aged between 2 and 13 years of parents employed overseas, if those children are enrolled in daycare centres. MORE..
19 May 2026 (7:07 PM)
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to procure 15,000 metric tonnes of urea fertilizer through Agrarian Service Committees under the Department of Agrarian Development for the 2026 Yala cultivation season. MORE..
19 May 2026 (5:49 PM)
The National Steering Council of the �A Nation United� National Programme aimed at eradicating the dangerous drug menace, together with the Cabinet-appointed Committee on the prompt destruction of seized narcotic substances, convened today (19) at the Presidential Secretariat. MORE..
19 May 2026 (10:57 PM)
Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate Monday as a wind-driven wildfire threatened suburban homes in Southern California. MORE..
19 May 2026 (6:11 PM)