The United States has lifted a pause on food donations, the U.N. World Food Programme said, ending a suspension that an aid watchdog on Monday warned had left 500,000 metric tons of food currently at sea or ready to be shipped in limbo. MORE..
11 Feb 2025 (3:58 PM)
Island-wide power cuts will be implemented today (11) as well, as a result of an issue which arose at the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant, where the automatic protocol system has disconnected all three generators. MORE..
11 Feb 2025 (8:59 AM)
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) announced that no power cuts will be imposed tomorrow (12). MORE..
11 Feb 2025 (2:26 PM)
The Kaduwela Magistrate s Court has imposed an overseas travel ban on Daisy Forrest Wickremesinghe, also known as Daisy Achchi , who is the grandmother of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, in connection with a money laundering case. MORE..
11 Feb 2025 (1:00 PM)
The Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa slammed the government s handling of the ongoing power crisis, highlighting the fragility of the national grid as the root cause of frequent outages. MORE..
11 Feb 2025 (10:33 AM)
The convenor of the Nawa Sinhale National Movement, Dan Priyasad, has been arrested by Sri Lanka Police this morning (11). MORE..
11 Feb 2025 (8:43 AM)