Cash-strapped Sri Lanka imposed fuel rationing on Friday in another worsening of the economic crisis that has sparked widespread demonstrations calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation.
COLOMBO, March 24 (Xinhua) Sri Lanka Litro Gas company on Thursday began distributing 1 million gas cylinders in different areas of the South Asian country a
Wednesday 9th February, 2022 Those who can, do; those who cannot, blame others, one may say with apologies to Bernard Shaw, on hearing some ministers make absurd claims in a bid to extenuate the government’s blunders. They are apparently labouring under the delusion that the people are stupid enough to fall for their lies, hook, […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Declaring that every sector depended on the public service, the country’s Commander in Chief President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emphasised the responsibility on the part of the Secretaries to the Ministries to achieve given tasks. The President said so at the Presidential Secretariat on the morning of January 19 when Secretary to the Prime […]
By Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon The number of COVID positive pregnant women was increasing rapidly, Dr. Sanath Lanerolle, Senior Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Castle Street Hospital for Women, told The Island yesterday. Dr. Lanerolle urged pregnant women to get booster shots as soon as possible. He stressed that vaccines would have no adverse […]