The government has taken steps to address shortages of fuel and gas to some extent when compared to the earlier situation which had long queues that stretched for kilometres outside fuel and gas stations. But a well-planned recovery plan still cannot be seen that can address the long-term food security issues.
Amid rising Covid 19 cases, the Sri Lankan government has extended the ongoing islandwide lockdown till September 6, but experts feel extending it to October 2 could save an estimated 10,000 lives at an economic cost of 2.2 percent of GDP
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed three top retired legal experts to make recommendations on a controversial anti-terror law that some Western nations and international rights groups claim has been used to suppress minorities and silence dissent
Sri Lanka has requested the World Health Organization (WHO), seeking the supply of medical oxygen as the island country faces its worst Covid-19 crisis. The country is currently under a ten-day-long nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the virus
Sri Lanka began a ten-day-long nationwide lockdown from Friday night as the country struggled to contain the rising Covid-19 infections. On Thursday, it had recorded almost 3900 cases
Amid reports of Sri Lanka’s medical sector plunging into a crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the country could soon face a health crisis of unprecedented proportions
Amid rising Covid-19 cases, Sri Lankan Health Minister Sudarshani Fernandopulle has said that next month will be very risky as the island nation on Wednesday recorded almost 6000 cases, the highest single-day count so far
Sri Lanka’s medical sector has been plunged into crisis with medical experts fearing that even an immediate countrywide lockdown will not be able to bring any change in the situation over the next ten days following the vast spread of the Covid-19 virus
Authorities in Sri Lanka refused to press charges against a former naval officer who is accused of having played a role in the abduction of 11 Tamil youths in 2008-2009 in Colombo, shattering hopes for thousands of Tamil families seeking justice for the disappearance of their relatives
The Covid situation is likely to get worse in Sri Lanka in the coming weeks, health experts warned, as the deadly Delta variant spreads throughout the country
Amid the continued threat posed by the Covid-19 Delta variant, over ten million people received the first dose of Covid vaccines in Sri Lanka, which received praise from the World Health Organization (WHO) for the national immunization drive
An increasing number of doctors and health workers in Sri Lanka are being infected with the Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated in recent days, hitting the country’s response which is already battling the deadly outbreak of the Delta variant
A Sri Lankan magistrate has ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) to ban all "harmful websites" in the wake of a worrying increase in child pornography and sextortion cases in the country
Sri Lankan authorities have formed a dedicated new cell to probe the incidents of child pornography in the country as police revealed that over 17,000 videos and pictures related to child pornography have been uploaded from Sri Lanka in a little over a month’s time
For more than a year now, the Sri Lankan government has been facing multiple challenges from the financial crisis to the Covid crisis
Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the country needed to have a “long-term common policy framework” and the common opposition alliance won't be enough at a time of a deep economic crisis
